Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog June 2006 Archive

A few years ago, it was looking like we would have to learn another language to write for cell phones and other palmtop devices. Which, IMHO, is a bit annoying ... Read More

DTDs Schemas I don't use either I don't use XML View Results

There are so many titles in this field, and rather than getting more standardized, it seems to be getting crazier. In one company there might be: Webmaster Web Designer Web Developer Web Programmer Web Producer Information ... Read More

Sometimes it's easier to understand a concept if you see it done. Building valid and well-formed XHTML is the same as building valid and well-formed XML, and this article will ... Read More

CSS specificity is not only hard to say (try saying specificity three times fast, I dare you), it's also fairly confusing. But understanding how your CSS style rules and properties ... Read More

But it's really not. Mozilla and Firefox already support some of the selectors that will be available in CSS level 3 and Internet Explorer 7 is expected to be close ... Read More

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked after people finish the HTML class is "what's next?" The short answer is "it's up to you", but of course, no one ... Read More

A declaration saying that it actually is XML and XML elements. Once you have those two things, you've written an XML document. But if you don't understand what an XML ... Read More

yes no what is Flickr? View Results

Flickr is cool and it's really great that you can use the Flickr badge to add your pictures to your blog. But the HTML that it delivers isn't as nice ... Read More

But attributes are just as important in XML documents as they are in HTML documents. While it is certainly possible to create an XML document that has absolutely no attributes. ... Read More

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The title of the Web page is something like "untitled" or "document 1" or something generic like that. Titles have a lot of impact on HTML pages, but many beginning ... Read More

If you're like most designers (or actually, most people, come to think about it) the design of a Web site is much more interesting than the maintenance of it. Once ... Read More

CSS 2 selectors give you even more power over what you can style than the old school CSS 1 selectors. Granted, older browsers (Netscape 4, IE 4, etc.) might not ... Read More

These are the basic building blocks of a style sheet. CSS selectors tell the user-agent (or browser) what element to select and how to style it. CSS level 1 allows ... Read More

Whether they know it or not. In fact, many companies that use CMS tools like Documentum and Interwoven are actually using XML to store their data. But XML is used ... Read More

There is a large effort in the Web community to get people to use CSS rather than HTML to style HTML pages, but that means that certain phrases have become ... Read More

4 out of 5 Web developers surveyed don't use as many attributes as they could to control their Web pages. There are actually a lot of attributes available for your ... Read More

CSS 1 CSS 2 CSS 3 I use whatever my browser will support I don't care about CSS levels View Results

A few weeks ago, I posted an entry about switching from table-based layouts to CSS and a number of commenters stated that they didn't want to. Reasons varied from not ... Read More

The biggest challenge in this era of cable-modems is getting access to the Internet in a way that allows you to host your own and other peoples' domains. Of course ... Read More

Yes, we all want to keep our private things private, but how is that defined when we're on the Web? Privacy is relative. I know people who don't like giving ... Read More

I don't know about you, but I'm barely on top of CSS level 2 and now the W3C is saying there's a third level (actually, it's been around since 2001, ... Read More

Yes, Ajax is really cool and fun and intersting, but sometimes the simple things on your site can make an even bigger difference. For example, when you add a simple ... Read More

One of my Web team members asked me the other day if it was okay if we cleaned out some of the old and test files that were cluttering up ... Read More

When I started working on the Internet, it was before the days of automatic FTP clients. I used a command line FTP client straight from my Windows 3.1 machine to ... Read More

Liquid layouts Fixed width layouts It depends upon the situation View Results

But how do you get people to advertise. Sure it's possible to just set up a Google AdWords account and then add the links to your site, but what if ... Read More

I guess that people are still hung up on whether to use CSS for layout or stick to tables, and the concept of modular XHTML is beyond what they need. ... Read More

Okay, it's not as fancy as the ones you can download or buy, but the text editor that comes included in every version of Windows (so far at least) can ... Read More

Web pages aren't like print, you can't rely on the size of the paper to determine how much space your page will use. Thus, if you say you want your ... Read More

Okay, I just think of it as a snake because of the Indiana Jones quote "Asps.... Very dangerous.... You go first." But ASP is actually a really useful server-side programming ... Read More

There was a comment a few days ago talking about how just because XML is around doesn't make HTML (or even XHTML) obsolete. And that is completely correct. So don't ... Read More

Why? Not only because I'm asking you to, but because schema's are what make the XML Web go-round these days. The good thing is, they aren't that hard to understand, ... Read More

Web pages, not just this one Books, any technical books Books from a specific publisher Magazines Friends and co-workers Software help systems Why not leave a comment explaining exactly which books, Web sites, or magazines you ... Read More

File Transfer Protocol or FTP seems to be a dying art. Many Web developers are only used to using Web forms and blog tools to get their files from their ... Read More