Monthly Archives: July 2009
Check your web site in lots of browsers
I always tell my students to check their web sites in many browsers, but we are limited in the browsers and number of browser versions we can have on our computers. For example, I am a Mac user and I cannot put Internet Explorer on my computers. The problem is that older Internet Explorer (IE) [...]
Image Gallery Web Page Code
Image galleries are an important component to many of our web site, especially mine. The problem is formatting them so they look right in every browser, with any content that follows so it does not wrap around the image gallery. Based on my experience, you should start by placing each image in an unordered list. [...]
Embrace your Geekness Day
Today is Embrace your Geekness Day. This is a day when you celebrate your ability to understand and use technology. These days, you need to become a geek to succeed at work. That is why I have so many different kinds of students in my non-credit web design classes. This is a day for yourself [...]
It is important to use HTML Headings Properly
Example of relative sizes found in HTML headings When you are formatting your web page, you need to create structure with tags like headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, and divs. When I teach new web design students, I usually have one nay sayer who says that the order of heading tags does not matter. Not so! Just [...]