Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog December 2006 Archive

It's that time of year again, the time when we look at our lives and think "ack!" Many people will be looking for resolutions to help them change their lives ... Read More

A number of interesting things happened this week in the Web world. Image courtesy kotz from StockXchng #642309. Google added tips to their search results and there's been a lot of ... Read More

At the end of the year it's a great time to start thinking about how you're going to improve your life next year. One way to do that is to ... Read More

If you've ever visited Google on a holiday (obscure or mainstream) you'll have seen their modified logo. This can be a fun way for designers on corporate sites to show ... Read More

Many people got new computers or other hardware for the holidays this year. But that just means that you probably have old hardware sitting around taking, up space. Image courtesy ... Read More

I was so happy when About added the comments feature to our blogs early this year. And it has proved to be as interesting and stimulating as I'd hoped. Image ... Read More

One of the things that makes HTML so easy to use is that you don't need any special software to write Web pages. You can use free text editors that ... Read More

Well, it's been a few weeks since I featured any jobs. First I forgot, then there was a power-outage for 2 days, then my birthday and Mark's birthday, and... well ... Read More

Christmas is only a few days away and there are some things that I know won't be under my tree - like my ultimate Macintosh setup. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng ... Read More

Okay, before you start screaming that the only good pop-up window is a dead pop-up window, let's discuss this for a second. Pop-up windows have a place on Web pages ... Read More

What's large to one person might be a drop in the bucket to another. The largest site I ever worked on had, all told, probably around a million Web pages ... Read More

I run a wide-screen monitor at 1680x1050 resolution. But I don't browse with my Web browser maximized. I never have, even when I had a tiny 460x680 monitor (okay, maybe ... Read More

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There is so much to learn about CSS that it's hard to know where to start. These are the most popular CSS articles on this Web site. But if there's ... Read More

The third challenge was for people to build the ugliest page they could - the idea being that if we can define what makes something ugly, Image courtesy leonbidon from ... Read More

Unfortunately for Web designers, clichéd design devices like shadows are only just starting to be possible without a lot of programming or graphic manipulation. Image courtesy andyh1988 from StockXchng #677051. Jacci, ... Read More

A friend of mine and I were talking about browsers the other day - he's very pro IE and I prefer Firefox. I had a similar poll around 6 months ... Read More

I received a comment on a blog post today complaining that the post didn't have a lot of information on opacity. It was a post simply pointing to another site ... Read More

I've known for a long time that it's illegal to copy someone else's material and post it to my own Web site. Plagiarism is a clear violation of copyright. Image ... Read More

Some things are obvious - we all know that they're going to happen, but many of them I wish were not true. Like browsers Image courtesy gabrielby from StockXchng #557538. - ... Read More

When I did a search I was surprised at how many articles I'd written this year. Yes, there are still a few weeks left in the year, but I don't ... Read More

View Source is often one of the most clicked option by Web developers. I find myself doing that all the time when I'm curious how a developer got a certain ... Read More

Okay, sure if you're presenting your latest suggestions for the Web redesign you're working on in a conference room at the Fortune 500 company, then you can just plug in ... Read More

This week I got two really interesting questions in the mail. One about the ID attribute and why it really should be unique. The other asks about automatic pagination on ... Read More

There are ten new entries in the Web Design Design Gallery. Many of them are CSS layouts and a lot validated either XHTML 1.1 or HTML 4.1. Image courtesy fluyana from ... Read More

If you are visually oriented and like to see pictures of every change that is made to a page, then this CSS book is a good choice. It focuses a ... Read More

There has been a lot of hype about how Ajax makes your Web sites insecure. I even posted about a security hole last year. And at one job I ... Read More

#196: 'Elegance in Simplicity' by Mani Sheriar. If you've never heard of the CSS Zen Garden, you're in for a treat. Image courtesy J Kyrnin This design gallery showcases what can ... Read More

It probably wouldn't have taken so long to set up if I hadn't been taking screen shots of every step. But it is possible to set up IE 6 and ... Read More

Ecommerce is huge and there are many companies that need developers who have experience in ecommerce or have worked to build and maintain ecommerce Web sites. If you didn't have to ... Read More

One of the most annoying things about Internet Explorer is how insanely difficult it is to run multiple versions of the software on one machine. Granted, the average Web user ... Read More