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Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all. Like the potential in the buds of a winter blooming plant, may you blossom during the coming year.

Goodbye, old friend

It’s the end of life for the Netscape browser. For the first 5 years or so after I learned HTML, I had such an intense and ongoing relationship with Netscape Navigator that I referred to it as “my significant other.” Lately it’s slipped further and further into the dust bin of my mind, and our [...]

Mail and spam issues

Recently I’ve been getting tons of comment spam that akismet isn’t catching. I had this blog set to forward mail to me when there was a questionable comment. Getting all that comment spam in my mail has caused my server to be banned by my home ISP. In other words, just about all my mail [...]

What to do with Dreamweaver’s invitation to attach more than one style sheet

Do you use Dreamweaver’s built-in layouts and sample pages to start a new design? Then this information is for you. My precise topic is the ability to add more than one style sheet when you select a CSS layout. In Dreamweaver, when you open a brand new page, go to Blank Page > HTML. You [...]

It’s showtime

Two weeks in Greece on Flickr. Visit Web Teacher to read any comments.

Top 100 Education Blogs

Web Teacher isn’t even on their radar over at the Online Education Database, but they do have technology blogs from number 79 to 100 in their list of the Top 100 Education Blogs for 2006. You may find something new and worthwhile on the list, so take a look. Technorati Tags: web design education Visit [...]

Why this site has a funny domain name

This is my story and I’m sticking to it. Several years ago a whole truck load of new top level domain names were added to the rather limited batch that included .com, .org, and .net. I was determined to have the title Web Teacher for this site, but the .com, .org and .net versions were [...]

AJAX and Accessibility

AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials] gives a summary of the current situation with AJAX and screen readers, describes a set of tests conducted to check how screen readers work with JavaScript and the DOM and describes what’s being done about it all. Technorati Tags: web design, accessibility Visit Web [...]

Yeah, baby, we kicked butt!

SXSW’s 2006 Honor Roll was just published. It lists the panels that received ratings of 4/5 on a scale of 1 to 5. The panel I was on, Increasing Women’s Visiblity on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking?, rated a perfect 5. Visit Web Teacher to read any comments.

CMSs found lacking

A major Swedish study of Content Management Systems found them lacking in web standards and accessibility. The results are in Swedish, so read Content Management Systems used by public sector websites found lacking | 456 Berea Street for a good summary in English. Technorati Tags: web design, accessibility, CSS, web standards Visit Web Teacher to [...]