Category Archives: Web Design
Web Design Elements that Users Look For
Jakob Nielsen’s and Kara Pernice’s new book on “Eyetracking Web Usability” has proven some ideas for necessary element placement on your web pages. This book shows eyetracking data on the most important elements that you should place on all your web pages and where to place them.
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Reserved Characters in HTML
There are several characters that you cannot type directly into HTML. You must use code to represent those characters. you can use either the entity number or the entity name in your code.
Major WordPress Meltdown
I apologize. This blog had a major meltdown the past couple of days. I had to reinstall WordPress, and this resulted in some of my posts getting corrupted. Please be patient with me while I update the nonsensical code found on some posts. In addition, some of the most important plugins were the naughty bits [...]
Web design for your users, not for you
I see many blogs and articles that teach you how to use the latest technology tricks and how to use marketing techniques on your site. However, research on human-computer interaction has found that design of web sites should be based on user needs and goals. If you base your site design on user needs, then [...]
PHP and MySQL on Snow Leopard
I just got PHP and MySQL working on my computer. I am now restarting my web development business and I needed a test server running on my computer. Apache 2 and PHP 5.3 come already installed and compiled on Mac Snow Leopard. I followed the great tutorial found on www.dwfaq.info. I had to move a [...]
Positioning Web Page Elements
What is Positioning? The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) positioning properties allow you to position an element. It can also place an element behind another, and specify what should happen when an element’s content is too big. Elements can be positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties. However, these properties will not work unless [...]
Creating a hyperlink to a specific area in a webpage
You can specify a hyperlink to go to a specific area on a webpage (try it out). These types of links are often used on long pages when you want your user to quickly jump to another section on a webpage.
HTML Math Symbols
∫ You may need to add math symbols to your blogs or other web pages. The table below gives you the character entity code for common mathematic symbols.
My New EdTech Blog Design
I have just updated the look to this, my educational technology blog. It has been a long time coming as I have longed to have a design that was personal rather than my updated, free WordPress theme from Scribble Scratch. I use a WordPress blog that has been installed on my web site account with [...]
No More Internet Explorer 5 & 6 Browsers!
A couple of weeks ago, I started adding code to my site telling users of the Internet Explorer version 5 and 6 should upgrade their browsers.
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) [...]