I got this email the other day: I have a rather odd request to ask. I am trying to learn how to write web pages for fun and maybe more down the road. At present I have several different editors to choose from, and was wondering if you could give me some advice as to [...]
Friday, February 25, 2011
I just upgraded to WordPress 3.1. I was dismayed to discover an admin bar taking up space at the top of my blog when I was signed in. Maybe you love the admin bar. I don’t happen to want it there. How do you get rid of it, if you are like me and don’t [...]
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Media queries are part of the CSS 3 recommendations that worked beginning with HTML 4 and CSS 2. Lately they have been touted as a solution to designing for mobile devices. The trend has earned the label “responsive web design.” I thought it was time to look at the basics of media queries. When you [...]
The posts here on fieldset CSS are so popular, I decided to put them all together in one PDF file and offer it as a free download. It’s a PDF file, so it isn’t perfect, but it does give you the information you may be looking for all in one place. If you have any [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I’m going to tell you a little story and then I’m going to give you a quiz. A few days ago, I posted a guest article by Lior called Increase your SEO Knowledge in 2011: Must Read Blogs. Lior sent me the post pasted into an email. I use Microsoft Entourage (a Mac mail program [...]
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The new semantic elements in HTML5 hold accessibility promise. It’s merely potential for improvement at the current time, because the semantic elements introduced in HTML5 are not yet universally recognized by browsers and assistive technology devices. Here are some of the the new elements. header: header can be used for a page element, a section, [...]
You can do many things with Tumblr, but I use it for something very specific. When I’m researching a topic and want to gather up a set of links over a period of several days or weeks about that topic, I save the link on Tumblr. When I’m ready to put the information together in [...]
See Also: ARIA Roles 101 As part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (ARIA), defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible. It is used to improve the accessibility of dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. [...]
Thursday, October 14, 2010
See Also: ARIA States 101 As part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (ARIA), defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible. It is used to improve the accessibility of dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Two or more conflicting CSS rules are sometimes applied to the same element. What are the rules in CSS that resolve the question of which style rule will actually be used when a page is rendered by a browser? The answer is, “it’s complicated.” Several factors are involved. I’ll give you a brief explanation of [...]
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