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May 2, 2008 by Web Teacher product Building Findable Websites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond ★★★★★ Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond by Aarron Walter (New Riders, 2008) is one of those rare books that is so full of good ideas, it makes me enthusiastic about what I can do when I put … Continue reading “Review: Building Findable Websites”
The opening remarks are from Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson. It was run as a sort of Johnson interviewing Jenkins conversation. Johnson began by asking if this was the dumbest generation. They got right into a discussion of the concept of intelligence and how we deal with this idea in terms of skills, information processing … Continue reading “SWSWi: Opening Remarks”
The Future of Web Design (FOWD) Conference was held the week before Thanksgiving in New York City. One of those in attendance was Kristin Vincent from Webgrrls. Kristen came home from the conference and wrote a visionary post called The Web’s Future: Peering into the Crystal Ball. She summarized some of the highlights of the … Continue reading “Women and The Future of Web Design Conference”
If you’ve never looked at a Document Type Definition (DTD), you’ve missed one a web designer’s most interesting experiences. I’m only kidding a little bit. You can download several flavors of DTD from the W3C and read them for your edification. You see a lot of abbreviations and not much explanation of what it all … Continue reading “An explanation of the abbreviations in a DTD”
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Summary: excellent and easy Jul 5, 2007 by Web Teacher product Accordion Panel Magic ★★★★★ Project Seven (PVII) creates menu systems, slide show systems, CSS page designs and systems like tab panels and the product called Accordion Panel Magic (APM). These products are designed to work as Dreamweaver extensions and suites that are installed into … Continue reading “Product Review: Accordion Panel Magic”
One of the most important and least noticed facts about CSS layouts for sites meant for mobile users relates to source order. The elements of a web page—header, main content, sidebar, footer, and other such divisions—can be written in the the HTML in any order and laid out anywhere on the page using CSS. This … Continue reading “Source order and mobile users”
