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What’s popular?

What’s been popular lately? Glad you asked. HTML5: the new hgroup element 7 Tips for New Bloggers Style a fieldset with rounded corners using CSS Document outlines in HTML5 Tip: Styling a fieldset with CSS How to Look Like a Wiz with RGBa

Popular Posts on Web Teacher

A look at my springtime garden. Happy spring. Happy reading on Web Teacher, too. Time for a round up of what’s hot on Web Teacher. Here are the big scorers: Tip: Adding borders to data tables with CSS The CSS background property Tip: What is a Wrapper Div? Attribute Selectors in CSS Tip: Styling a [...]

Catch me tomorrow on BlogTalkRadio

Tomorrow at 1PM Eastern is the date for  the Fem 2.0 Wake Up Campaign on work/life blog radio series program where I’ll be representing the elder blogger community. The program I’m involved in is  “Work/Life and Older Americans: Taking Care of Oneself & Others.”  The discussion airs at Talk Shoe. Luckily, I’ll be the moderator [...]

Thanks for reading in 2009

As 2009 winds down today, I want to thank you for you time and your eyeballs on Web Teacher this year. I know there’s a lot of competition for your attention, and I appreciate the readers here. This has been a good year for Web Teacher. I hope your year has been a good one, [...]

Best of the Year on Web Teacher

What were the best sellers for Web Teacher this year? Here’s are the greatest hits for 2009. The runaway favorite was Tip: Styling a fieldset with CSS. This post left the rest of the pack in the dust. The Best Job in the World: Going Viral came in second with a lot of help from [...]

Me, me, me

A months-old interview I did with Michael Williams from The Erickson Tribune finally got published with the title It’s Never Too Late to Learn. (I started learning very early in life, I really did.) Interesting how you can talk on the phone to someone about 85 things for an hour and a half and end [...]

Have digital tools made your dreams come true?

I found this wonderful video among PBS’s Digital Nation videos. Charlotte Ashurst McDaniel explains how digital tools have changed her life for the better. I suspect that many of us have stories about how digital tools have changed our lives. This blog changed my life. In the late 1990s and early in the current century, [...]

Installing JS-Kit Echo on Web Teacher

When I tried out Zemanta a few days ago, I also added another new item to the blog. That is JS-Kit Echo, a commenting plugin. Echo is a JavaScript kit. The Echo Core version is available free at this time. There are paid versions with more functionality.  I tried out the free version on Web [...]

Product Reviews on Web Teacher

My policy on paid reviews. More. . .

My Wordle and TweetStats

Thanks to Laura Scott from rare pattern for telling me about Wordle. Here’s what I’ve been talking about lately on this blog. Laura also mentioned TweetStats, which I tried out, too. Here’s a vision of what I’m Tweeting about (or to). Two interesting examples of helpful online tools that are free and highly useful. WEB [...]