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Reading blog comments can be painful. For every insightful and well thought out post there are at least 10 spammers, trolls and illiterate shrieking banshees just looking to start a fight. This is hard enough when you are a visitor trying to shift through all the garbage to find the occasional diamond to respond to. … Continue reading “Should You Have a Comment Policy?”
The new structural elements in HTML5 include section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption, time, and mark. First, let’s look at support in Internet Explorer. Starting in version 9 of IE, there is support for all the new elements. Versions prior to that provided no support, not even partial. Other browsers have been … Continue reading “Browser Support for new HTML5 Structural Elements”
Elizabeth (Liz) Castro is a tech writer who has been influential in the growth of web design and the Internet since the 1990’s. Her website is elizabethcastro.com. Her blog is Pigs Gourds and Wikis. She’s a mentor of mine, and a source of information for literally millions of readers who want to know something about … Continue reading “Liz Castro: Outstanding Woman in Technology”
Here’s another of the handouts I prepared for a Continuing Ed class in CSS at UNM. Styling Text There are many ways to control the typography on your HTML pages. Fonts Fonts are chosen in font-families. Usually pick more than one. Pick fonts that are all serif fonts and then end the list with the … Continue reading “Styling Text 101”
What search engines and sites like Facebook actually do with meta description information.
First we had the iPod and it caused a cultural revolution – those white ear buds sold it more than anything else. Apple was quick off the mark to follow with the iPhone which again caused waves in the cell phone market because of its capabilities and mass appeal. Finally Apple has made the vision … Continue reading “7 Awesome iPad Apps For Students”
Are you someone like me who thinks HTML is the most interesting topic on the planet? No? Not surprising, really. Most people have other things to think about. But even those among us – you! – who would rather think about other things have probably noticed a lot of headlines and blog posts that talk … Continue reading “A Bloggers Guide to HTML5”