Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog September 2003 Archive

If you're planning on upgrading to Photoshop 8.0, you should read Sue's Photoshop Upgrade Tips & FAQs. Sue is About's Graphics Software Guide, and she has lots of great information ... Read More

Often the most difficult part of instituting a CMS rollout at a company is getting the Web extended team members on board and agreeing to the change. But if you ... Read More

New Article A few years ago, building a text rollover that would work in both Netscape and Internet Explorer was nightmarish at best. But now, modern browsers support a CSS ... Read More

Find out all the different things that CM systems do beyond just managing content.

Many larger Web sites do, but there are content management systems available to help. Find out if your site has similar problems to this case study.

Learn how to use inline styles, stylesheets in the header, and external stylesheets.

If you upload something to a non-password protected directory on the Internet, you're setting it up for the world to see. And don't think that obscurity will keep it hidden. ... Read More

New Book Review You would think, after this long, that Web designers wouldn't be making mistakes that drive away customers. But they are, and this great book documents the mistakes ... Read More

Learn how to use Dynamic HTML to use stylesheets that take advantage of the browser. One way to handle the CSS browser issue is to write different CSS documents for ... Read More

When you work with CSS to design the look and feel of your page, you want a lot of it to be background colors and textures. And now you can ... Read More

New Article First impressions are important, and your home page is the first impression that many people get of your company. However, what many designers seem to forget is that ... Read More

Sometimes, when I evaluate sites, I wonder if the developer's goal was not actually to gain more customers, but rather to make them leave as quickly as possible. If you've ... Read More

A Web cache is a tool used by Web servers, Web browsers, and administrators to make Web pages appear to load more quickly. When a page has been visited, a ... Read More

There are some requests that Web developers make that are needlessly invading the privacy of their customers. If your site require these calls, find out why it still doesn't insure ... Read More

New Review If you sell things on the Web, one of the first difficulties that people have is understanding exactly how large something is. For example, you might be selling ... Read More

Learn the conventions for pointing to specific parts of your XML document. You should know XPath to work with both XSLT and XPointer.

Are you an expert at XHTML? Even if you haven't taken the Free XHTML Class you can take the exam. If you pass, you'll receive a certificate noting your acheivement ... Read More

It's very easy to build a Web page, upload it to your Web server, and then lose it. Believe me it happens all the time. But once you understand how ... Read More

New Article Determining the price of a project is a bigger question than you might realize. There are many issues you need to examine to figure out the expenses and ... Read More

Using XLink, you can create more flexible links, anchors and more, than you can with HTML. The XML Linking Language is the solution for XML documents.

Many people believe that CSS is for HTML and XSL or XSLT is for XML, but that's not strictly true. While both are style sheets, they serve two vastly different ... Read More

Does RSS spell the end of email newsletters? Lockergnome has some really good points that suggest they might. While I'm not yet convinced, as email is so widespread and easy ... Read More

Planning is crucial for nearly any effort made on a Web page, and meta tags are no exception. If you don't know what you aim to achieve with your meta ... Read More

The browser war may be over, but the server war is still in full swing. Two years ago, the Gartner Group recommended that it was time to switch away from ... Read More

The second most important item to a Web developer is the hosting provider. But how do you know what type of options you should be looking for? There really is ... Read More

Have you been wondering about the size of your pages and how they look to people at different connection speeds? If so, you need wonder no longer, Andy King (of ... Read More

New Review If you're struggling with building your Web design business, part of the problem may be that you're not planning enough. Proposal Kit Pro takes you through the steps ... Read More

One of the major tools of a Web developer is the HTML editor, but you should consider all your options as well as what you need before dropping any money ... Read More

Learn how to make your CSS pages render in various Web browsers. The biggest challenge to CSS is knowing how to get the effect you want in browsers other than ... Read More

New Resource You might be surprised at all the things this powerful WYSIWYG editor can do. It's much more than a simple HTML editing tool, and best of all, it ... Read More

Learn how to create a graphical watermark on your Web pages in Internet Explorer.

There is a scam going around right now regarding eBay that you might be fooled by. They actually have http://www.ebay.com in the href of the anchor tag... But don't be fooled. ... Read More

Once you understand how an XML document is written, you'll be better able to write your own. And, luckily, XML is very structured, so it's fairly easy to understand.

Deleting pages that get a lot of hits causes link rot. I would bet that when this site was converted from the Web Design site to the Web Design/HTML site, ... Read More

New Review I love the integration with Photoshop, it allows the professional Web developer to stay with a familiar interface and tools for all parts of the design and development ... Read More

XForms allow you to create forms that work on many platforms, are accessible, and integrate directly with XML.

Did you know that people who have spyware and adware on their systems are probably stealing ad revenue from your site? Gator and other tools like it are set up ... Read More

New Article Live web cameras have been on the Internet for a long time now, but while you may have the camera and the software, did you know that there ... Read More