Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning … Continue reading “Now Available! InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design”
In the old days, many of us learned to make web pages by first thinking about the “look” and what images, fonts, color schemes, and graphic design elements we would use to achieve it. We launched Photoshop or Fireworks and played with the look until we knew precisely (down to the pixel) what the page … Continue reading “Designing with Structural Thinking”
It’s an experiment to see if people will pay a couple of dollars to get a printable compilation of the material they could get on a blog free. I’m trying out the idea with two new e-books from First 50 Words. That blog consists of a daily writing prompt and a response to the prompt … Continue reading “An experiment with e-books”
CSS rules can apply to more than one element on the web page. For example, if I create a rule like body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } everything on the page will use that rule because of inheritance. Everything on the page is a descendant of the body element, so everything on the page … Continue reading “Grouping CSS Selectors”
Privacy stories and concerns are everywhere. There are constant issues over privacy at Facebook. Look, for example, at 10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy and at Could I have my stuff back, please. Privacy in Google Books has been an ongoing issue for the Privacy, Free Speech and Technology Blog at the ACLU … Continue reading “Privacy. Does it have your attention yet?”
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, … Continue reading “Have digital tools made your dreams come true?”
Remember how remarkable it seemed several months ago when a plane sat down in the Hudson River and the first news and photos of the crash came from Twitter? Then the fly ash spill in TVA’s Kingston plant was covered first on Twitter. That was about the time that articles about how the old media … Continue reading “Spreading the News”