URLs are important
Monday October 31, 2005
It's funny how important URLs are to a Web page. You might be thinking that they really don't matter, because they are just used as links, but the reality is ... Read More
Can you read your log files?
Sunday October 30, 2005
The first time I opened up the Web log file on my server, I was a bit overwhelmed. There are a lot of numbers and codes and text and not ... Read More
Installing the Apache Web Server
Saturday October 29, 2005
One of the easiest ways to get started working on a Web project is to install Apache on your local machine. Then you can test and manage pages without having ... Read More
"Community" is a popular gimmic, but does it work?
Friday October 28, 2005
Of the many ways that people have thought of to generate more pageviews and thus make their sites more popular to readers and advertisers, community is often bandied about as ... Read More
Tim Berners Lee and other historical figures
Thursday October 27, 2005
Actually, that's Sir Tim Berners-Lee now, as he was knighted for his work on developing the Web. But that is not the end of the history of the Web, it's ... Read More
3 Column Template with Footer
Wednesday October 26, 2005
Once I built the 3 column template, I realized that it would be possible to create a nice looking 3 column with footer template as well. The footer lays below ... Read More
Why Web browsers are quirky
Wednesday October 26, 2005
Quirks mode allows you to control more directly how your Web page is viewed. In fact, if you don't use the DOCTYPE and then later switch to using one, you ... Read More
Humorous Clothes
Tuesday October 25, 2005
What Web developer can resist a hat that says <head> on it? I know I can't. I picked out some of the funnier clothes that relate to Web development for ... Read More
Learn to control the robots that haunt you
Tuesday October 25, 2005
Okay, they may not be haunting you, but they are almost certainly haunting your site. And if you know how to control what pages they see and don't see you ... Read More
Corporate sites are usually maintained differently than personal sites
Monday October 24, 2005
Whenever I write an article about CSS or standards based design I often get email commenting that I am not "practicing what I preach" because the About Web Design/HTML site ... Read More
Redesigning this site
Sunday October 23, 2005
Okay, before you ask, I don't do the development for the Web Design/HTML site at About. I just write articles about how you should do it, and how I wish ... Read More
Standards Based DHTML Menus
Saturday October 22, 2005
Okay, I know you've seen them, the menus that just appear when you mouse over what you think is a button. Whether you like them or not, they are definitely ... Read More
XSL-FO
Friday October 21, 2005
Delving more deeply into XSL, you'll discover the Formatting Objects. This language allows you to define even more directly how you want your XML to display.
XSL:FO
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Little Web of Horrors
Thursday October 20, 2005
As it's nearly Halloween, it's time again to get scared by the Web pages out there. These designs and styles are sometimes too grusome to describe, but I'm willing to ... Read More
Better 3 Column Layout
Wednesday October 19, 2005
I created a 3 column layout template a while ago that is valid XHTML, but it's a bit hard to use, and if you mess up the code at all, ... Read More
Have you met eXstensible Style Sheets
Wednesday October 19, 2005
You can use XSL to define how your XML will look in the browser or you can use it to transform your XML into other things, like XHTML. XSL is ... Read More
Web Posters
Tuesday October 18, 2005
There are some really cool posters available for Web developers. These posters are pretty and useful. I picked out some of my favorites for your review.
Top Web Development Posters
When Round things are square
Tuesday October 18, 2005
In the world of the Web, all things are square. Or at least rectangular. Even round images are sqare. Once you understand this fact, you will have more control over ... Read More
Building Web Applications Just Got More Fun
Monday October 17, 2005
Pulling together various aspects of XML, JavaScript, and XMLHttpRequest turns your Web application into an AJAX application. AJAX gets rid of the hourglass. Instead of having your customers click on ... Read More
DHTML Attributes
Sunday October 16, 2005
Yesterday, I talked about how to use a CSS property to change colors dynamically, but the attributes related to DHTML are also fairly simple to learn and they can give ... Read More
Change Text Color OnRollover
Saturday October 15, 2005
It used to be really difficult to get text or backgrounds to change color when the mouse rolled over it. But now, modern browsers support the hover style property which ... Read More
Make your Web site a Home
Friday October 14, 2005
No matter how much you try to get people to deep link to your articles and information, chances are your home page is the page that gets the most hits ... Read More
How much should I charge?
Thursday October 13, 2005
If I had to rank the questions I'm asked in order of frequency, "how much should I charge" would top the list. And unfortunately, the best answer is "It depends." ... Read More
Adobe: Not just photo editing software
Wednesday October 12, 2005
I have to admit, I go back and forth on which Web page editor I like better, Dreamweaver or GoLive. They are both really cool pieces of software, with a ... Read More
How to set up a Webcam
Tuesday October 11, 2005
Do you have one of those little cameras that you can hook up to your computer and leave it pointing at something random (hopefully that moves)? If so, you can ... Read More
Title more than just your Web page
Monday October 10, 2005
Modern browsers now support tool tips when you use the title attribute on various elements in your page. The title attribute is useful for more than just providing more information ... Read More
I hate wandering around confusing sites
Sunday October 9, 2005
In fact, when I come to a site where I can't find what I'm looking for fairly quickly, I often give up and go somewhere else instead. But what makes ... Read More
Putting those colors together
Saturday October 8, 2005
Once you have colors named and know where they fit together on the color wheel, you need to know what looks good with what. I mean, maybe red and blue ... Read More
Color theory has some basis in facts
Friday October 7, 2005
If you don't understand how colors work together you can end up with some spectacularly ugly Web pages. But what are primary, secondary and tertiary colors? The article and the ... Read More
Forms and CSS are tricky
Thursday October 6, 2005
When you build a form you want it to be useful, you want it to collect the information you need and you want it to be pretty, like the rest ... Read More
I actually still hate frames
Wednesday October 5, 2005
About once every 3-6 months someone asks me what my feelings are about frames. And, while I understand why people like them, I still don't. :) But it is possible ... Read More
Are you friends with the Googlebot
Tuesday October 4, 2005
I love the Googlebot. It is one of my best referrers - or at least Google is. Because of this I do all I can to make my site as ... Read More
Do you know who's sending you customers?
Monday October 3, 2005
Obviously, if you put up ads to your Web site, you can at least hope that some of your customers found your site from those ads. But there are lots ... Read More
Learn more about blogs by looking at one up-close-and-personal
Sunday October 2, 2005
By examining the Web Design/HTML blog you can learn more about the characteristics that all blogs share. You may even come to disagree with my belief that weblogs are just ... Read More
Building an entire site in Dreamweaver is pretty cool
Saturday October 1, 2005
One of the first things I learned how to do with Dreamweaver was set it up to think of the pages I manage as a "site". This allowed me to ... Read More