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Category Archives: WebDesign

Useful links: Tutorials, content strategy, iOS4, and some good advice

Think Vitamin has a set of video tutorials that can be viewed free. Some look suitable for classroom use. Content Strategy Roles and You has some great ideas for organizing your workforce to fill content strategy roles. Be sure to check out the great infographic on approaches to web content strategy. Speaking of content strategy, [...]

HTML5: the new hgroup element

In HTML5, the new hgroup element serves an interesting purpose. I want to build you an example, starting with the hgroup element and working outwards to show how it could be part of the new article element. The hgroup element can contain only h1-h6 elements. Here’s an example: <hgroup> <h1>10 Terrific Tech Blogs by Women</h1> [...]

Useful Links: jQuery, Women in Tech, DMCA and jailbreaking

jQuery: A Designer’s Perspective at scriptjunkie is a good introduction to jQuery. Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Jailbreaking iPhone apps is now legal. Well, it’s legal according to the DMCA. Apple says it voids your warranty, however. Women in Technology is a thoughtful essay at Stubbornella (Nicole Sullivan’s [...]

Looking to hire?

Etsy is hiring. Like any web-based company, they are advertising the job openings on the Internet. Maybe you aren’t familiar with Etsy. You need to know that it is a marketplace for handmade and vintage items–a community of creative people. That’s important to keep in mind. Etsy is advertising for coders and programmers and database [...]

Useful links: Hyperlocal news, free websites, HTML5

Patch vs. Media News: One Little Instructive Story is about the AOL hyperlocal news service called Patch. The landscape is shifting under our feet. Pay attention. I’ve written about a lot of “build a website, free!” sites, especially for eHow. Now there is a company in the field that has found a way to make [...]

10 Terrific Tech Blogs by Women

Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]

Optimize your writing for users with impaired vision

Users with screen reader devices will scan and skim your web page in a manner somewhat similar to the way a visual user will. Screen readers can be programmed to read only headings, subheadings and links. When something of interest pops out from this “skimming” process, the user can stop and have all the information [...]

Useful links: Usability, graphic design, HTML5 Rocks

The You-Don’t-Matter Website is a look at usability and accessibility for some large brands. Graphic Design Theory: 50 Resources and Articles is from noupe. Apple’s attempt to wow the world with HTML5 flopped. Now Google is trying a similar thing with HTML5 Rocks. There are tutorials, Chrome developer tools, and the promise that the material [...]

Better the second time around

What’s hot here on Web Teacher? Playing with the Blackbird bookmarklet HTML5: The DOCTYPE declaration What is a wrapper div? Facebook’s new privacy settings: This is simple? Attribute selectors in CSS What about some of the other stuff that I write? A couple of items published as the TGB Elder Geek are worth a second [...]

Make Rounded Corners with CSS3

There’s a new version of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the works—CSS3. With this new set of rules for styling your blogs and web pages, you can do things that previously could only be done with images. One bit of magic that you can do with a CSS style rule now is make rounded corners. [...]