Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog January 2006 Archive

I've been having an on-going discussion about podcasting lately. There is a group of people I know who seem to believe that the word "podcast" simply means any MP3 or ... Read More

Tomorrow is the start of Web Design World 2006 in San Francisco, California. If you haven't been to a WDW conference, you should really try to get to one. The ... Read More

I don't know, that progression of jobs made sense at the time. Of course, we can't forget primate research technician, lab tech at a cat colony, goat herder, parking services ... Read More

If you take a screen shot of any Web page, and zoom way in on the text, you'll see that it's not smooth the way a printed text document is. ... Read More

There are lots of things that might make someone a Webmaster. When I started in the Web development business, my title was "Web Writer" and I answered the webmaster@netcom.com email. ... Read More

There are a lot of different jobs in a typical Webmaster's day. While the day described here happened in 1998, it is still basically what the developers who report to ... Read More

Webmaster is such a silly term, I really think. I mean, master of what? When I first started building Web pages for Netcom, back in the dark ages (like 1995), ... Read More

One of the trickest things about Web pages is getting people to come to them. I keep looking for the magic bullet or the special click text that will get ... Read More

Okay, a while ago, I ranted for a while about the phrase "click here" for links. So if you don't know how I feel about that, read my I hate ... Read More

If there's one thing I hate on a Web page it's a page that is 100% images, no text, and none of the images have alternative text. I mean, sure ... Read More

Earlier this week, I mentioned that I really don't like frames. But they are still a popular part of HTML, so I'll show you how to do it. This frames ... Read More

This HTML tables tutorial makes it easy to learn how. Tables are actually a very old part of HTML, so if you don't know how to build one, it would ... Read More

I just wish I could have thought of a word starting with T that mean Web pages! :-) But regardless, these tips will help you create pages that people will ... Read More

It's funny to me, whenever I put up this article, I am asked if I really do still dislike frames. And the answer is still yes. I admit, when I ... Read More

CSS is a very confusing subject, with lots of things to think about and understand. But if you understand the basics of CSS, like what does "cascade" mean and what ... Read More

Accessibility should not be a swear-word when it comes to Web Design. It's actually very easy to make a site that is accessible and beautiful. Many people have done it, ... Read More

I'm often amazed at the number of people who don't use HTML validators. They actually are very handy. In fact, often when someone writes to me complaining about something they ... Read More

These 10 tips will help you improve your Web writing so that the format does not turn people away. These formatting tips cover everything from when to use an ordered ... Read More

If you have URLs that are difficult to use, are long, or are just plain wrong, then you should probably consider using server rewrite rules to create URLs that work ... Read More

AJAX is not just a cleaner, it's also a way of thinking about Web design and development. With AJAX, you can set up Web pages to get the data that ... Read More

Many people don't know that, but "title" is actually an attribute of a lot of XHTML tags. Since they don't know about it, they don't use it, and thus our ... Read More

Once you learn how to use user style sheets, you may never go back to autocratically defined Web pages again. User style sheets allow you to set up Web pages ... Read More

If you know who is sending you visitors, you can at least say thank you to them. Or, barring that, you can send visitors back to them by links from ... Read More

No, I'm not talking about illicit drugs! Hits are something that people talk about on Web pages all the time, and yet, do they really have a meaning? Understanding the ... Read More

The mailing address of a Web site is it's IP address. They are what allow your computer to view my Web page and all the other pages on the Internet. ... Read More

As a Web Development team manager, I look at a lot of resumes and have hired several Web designers and developers. I've noticed a lot of trends in the industry ... Read More

The cool thing about the Apache Web server is that it is ridiculously easy to set up new domains and then host them all off the same server. DNS aliases ... Read More

One of my favorite "tricks" with Web forms is to make certain fields disabled in the form, usually until another field is filled out or filled out correctly. The neat ... Read More

The fact of the matter is that many of the larger, more popular Web sites on the Internet these days don't go through large redesigns where they "re-launch" their Web ... Read More

Granted, sometimes you'll be afflicted by readers who don't know what links are or how to scroll on the page, and for them, sometimes there is little help to give. ... Read More