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CSS Links

May 26

Here are some excellent CSS links to keep around:

  • The "authority" on CSS, with links to tutorials, tools, and the latest information on Cascading Style Sheets: W3C's CSS Home Page
  • Learn CSS, see samples, and even quiz yourself at The CSS Tutorials
  • An amazing demonstration of what simply adding CSS to a plain old HTML page can do! See hundreds of different page designs all based off the same HTML source, at The CSS Zen Garden
  • Validate your CSS code with this tool from W3C

Information and Media Explosion

Dec 30

The amount of information available and the proliferation of video over the last few years is nothing short of astounding. Watch this video and ask yourself, are you ready for the future?

Drupal Keeps Getting Better

Jun 04

Every time I turn around, there are new modules, new themes, and more people using Drupal, a solid content management framework for building a huge variety of web sites.

I was visiting a client recently who asked about a new feature for their web site. Sure enough, not only was this module available for Drupal, there are several different ways to do it and some related modules for additional functionality the client will be delighted to hear about.

Although you can drop to PHP and customize as much as you need to, there's getting to be less reason to do it because there is so much power and flexibility in the base product.

Redirecting Your Visitors

Aug 14

Want a way to automatically redirect your visitors to a new location? It's easier than you think if you use the META tag.

Meta Tag Tutorial

Aug 14

Meta tags are used to supply information for search engines that will not be seen by the web surfer unless they were to view your web site's HTML. In the past, meta tags were a primary way for your site to be recognized by web spiders, but the internet community abused the meta tags to artificially increase their ranking in the search engine databases. Nevertheless, you should still include meta for those search bots that do recognize them, allow your site to be included in their search engine.

ThinkVitamin

Apr 27

ThinkVitamin is a blog from carsonified.com. They believe the web industry is one of the most exciting places in the world and show it with their creativity. Their mission is to connect, encourage, and train the web community--and have fun doing it.

The Browser-Safe Web Palette

Apr 22

The Browser-Safe Palette, as Linda Weinman, author of the site and several books, so named it, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape, and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs. This palette is based on math, not beauty.

The only reason to use the browser-safe palette is if you have a concern that your Web design work will be viewed from a 256 color (8-bit) computer system. Today, the justification for using the browser-safe palette has diminished greatly if you are developing your site for users who have current computer systems.

HTML 4 Character Entities

Apr 22

Complete list of character entity references in HTML 4 by W3C.

Google Labs

Apr 16

Google Labs showcases a few favorite ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time. Give feedback to help improve them by playing with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.

Glossary of Web Terms

Mar 23

Have you ever wondered what a Blog is? OK, that term may be an every day verb/noun by now. But what about DHTML or Landing Page or Reciprocol Link? Do you know what a Spider does? Have your heard of ODP or know what your Page Rank is?

All these terms and more are listed on the Glossary of Web Terms.

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