Category Archives: Technology
Screenshot of Twitter Over-Capacity
When Twitter is overloaded with users, they put up the cutest web page. I wanted to share it with you. Twitter Screenshot when Overloaded I love Twitter. I have subscribed to news feeds, astronauts’ comments from space, news from my ISP and news about my favorite software including WordPress.
First Line Indent and Hanging Indent on your Web Site
Standard HTML formatting for text on a web site is that all lines are flush left. In order to indent or outdent the first line of an HTML block element such as a paragraph, you need to use the CSS property text-indent. The text-indent CSS property sets the indent size of the first line of [...]
Using PHP to Email Web Form Data
If you want to solve the big problem of emailing a web page’s form contents, you must use a backend solution such as PHP, Coldfusion, JSP, etc. Quite often, web designers can use programs such as Dreamweaver to create the HTML form elements but not the code that will read and send the name/value pairs [...]
Export PowerPoint and Keynote Slides to iPhoto
It is quite easy to study your PowerPoint and Apple Keynote slides on your iPhone and iPod Touch. I do this by using Mac PowerPoint and Mac Keynote to send all your slides to iPhoto.
Long Time
It has been a long time since I blogged (1 month ago). I have so many technology things that I want to share, but I just haven’t had time the past month. Upcoming this week will be a post on how to get your PowerPoint slides on your iPhone/iPod Touch, if you are using a [...]
CSS3 is Looking Very, Very Cool
If you are a web codehead like me, you will love Joost de Valk’s blog about CSS3. It is about the only current, readable information about the CSS3 specification. You see examples, and you get updates about the implementation and support for the spec. I am excited for the development of CSS3 because our design [...]
Your WordPress Blog on your iPhone/iTouch
I recently discovered that this blog’s template did not look very good on my iPod Touch. The Safari browser actually shrinks down images, etc. so you can view web pages on your Apple mobile. This made it so the explanatory area at the top of the template was only half-way readable because the black background [...]
Apple’s Compressor 3
I will soon be teaching a half-day class on Apple’s Compressor 3. This is a seemingly little-used program that installs with Final Cut Studio 2 (FCS). FCS is a suite of Apple programs that edit video, edit audio, and create DVDs. Compressor is like the Bridge of Adobe’s Creative Suite: a very valuable tool for [...]
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 [...]