Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
by Web Teacher product Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript (Amazon affiliate link) ★★★★★ Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript by Jonathan Lane, Meitar Moscovitz and Joseph R. Lewis is from Friends of ED (2008). I recommend this book. It is not the usual heavy dose of XHTML and CSS that … Continue reading “Review: Foundation Website Creation”
Since I don’t normally buy a lot of books, I never saw much personal reason to buy a Kindle.
That may change. More . . .
The Cascade in Cascading Style Sheets can determine how a web page displays. The purpose of the Cascade is to resolve conflicts when more than one rule applies to an element on an HTML page. Factors such as specificity, inheritance, and the order of the rules within a style sheet can all affect the way … Continue reading “The Cascade and ordering external stylesheet links”
It’s only partially helpful to consider this a battle between economic rights and civil rights. I think it’s part of the larger muddle over media-in-transition that is felling newspapers and leading to arguments over digital music rights, fair use, and the quoting of news articles. More . . .
Live blogging the first morning session . . . This is a full day workshop about educating web professionals. People involved in the presentation include Chris Mills, Stephanie Troeth, Aarron Walter, and Bill Cullifer. Others involved include Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Jeffrey Brown, Glenda Sims and Leslie Jensen-Inman. Chris Mills from Opera explained that we … Continue reading “Report from WDN 09: Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals”
Two of the important members of the WaSP Education Task force who have been hard at work on the WaSP Curriculum Framework (WCF) were featured in this weeks issue of A List Apart. More . . .
With the upcoming release of IE8, which will support CSS display:table and other table related display properties, I’m expecting changes in the way web pages are laid out. I just finished an intensive experience with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and the built-in CSS layouts that come prepackaged with the product. Naturally, my mind veered in the … Continue reading “Adapting Dreamweaver CSS layouts to display:table rules”