Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
It turns out that this story was a hoax. Mashable and BBC News have both confirmed it. Sorry to have fallen for the story along with everyone else. But, I have to say, hoax or no hoax, if it shamed even one person into upgrading from IE 6 to a newer browser . . . The … Continue reading “Not Stanford Binet but Browser Choice: Updated”
It’s easy peasy to create a table in Dreamweaver. It’s not so easy to create a table in Dreamweaver that sticks to the ideal of separation of content from presentation and uses CSS rather than HTML to determine presentation. If you want to build a table for your web page that does use best practice … Continue reading “The Secret of Building a Table with Dreamweaver”
Standardista (Estelle Weyl) deserves a useful links post devoted only to her blog. First there’s a wonderful beginning tutorial on the canvas element: HTML5: Introduction to <canvas>. As a bonus, she explains the difference between canvas and SVG in a clear and succinct paragraph at the end. In a page of example gradients called Striped … Continue reading “Useful links: canvas and gradient pizzazz”
product Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout by Eric A. Meyer is from Sitepoint, 2011. This is a very different sort of book by Eric Meyer. Not in subject matter, of course, but in tone and purpose. Instead of his previous rather pedantic and encyclopedic listing of every thing you might ever want to … Continue reading “Review: Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout”
In Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Product Family, Adobe made some announcements important to educators. First, they are moving milestone releases such as CS3, CS4, and CS5 to a two year cycle. The in between years will get updates like the just announced CS5.5. Here’s what they are doing to the web suite. For Web … Continue reading “Big News from Adobe”
There are two background images on the demo page. The page is a standard Dreamweaver HTML template page, with the styles in the document head. To add a second background image URL, the Dreamweaver style element must be edited manually. Here’s the relevant rule: background: url(img/Adelie_Penguin-sm.jpg) right bottom no-repeat, #FFF url(img/bg.jpg) repeat; You can view … Continue reading “Multiple Background Images with CSS3”
By Jill Whalen In my day-to-day reviews of client websites, I see lots of things done to websites in the name of SEO that in reality have no bearing on it. In an effort to keep you from spending your precious time on supposed SEO tactics that will have absolutely no effect on your rankings, … Continue reading “16 SEO Tactics That Will NOT Bring Targeted Google Visitors”