Monthly Archives: January 2009
Web Design Apps for iPhone & iPod Touch
There are a couple of cool web design apps for your iPhone and iPod Touch. One of my husband’s students found them for me. As of this post, the apps are 99 cents each. However, I can’t guarantee they will stay that price because that is a cheap price.
How to Setup your WordPress Blog
I use WordPress for my blog, and I have had many friends and students ask how they can set up and customize their own WordPress blog. I would recommend that you go to and read the relevant areas in WordPress documentation. This documentation is called a Codex. It not only shows in words and videos [...]
How to Put Files on your Web Site
We create our web pages and other design files on our own computers. But once our files are working and we have checked the links and validity of our pages, We need to copy (upload) our web site to the remote server so it can be a viewable web site for others to see. The [...]
Validate your Web Pages
What is Validation? Due to advances in technology and accessibility, it is important that you validate your web pages. The W3C’s Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks and verifies your HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc so that it meets current web design standards. Having valid code on your page makes sure you haven’t [...]
Dreamhost Announces Free Hosting for Open-Source Apps
Dreamhost announced they are presently offering free web hosting for apps like WordPress and Drupal. This means you would get free PHP and MySQL servers for your dynamic web site. Very cool. Dreamhost is my hosting company and I love their service. I really don’t pay that much for tons of space and bandwidth, but [...]