Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog April 2007 Archive

On April 12, 2007, the W3C Working Group on Internationalization released the Internationalization Best Practices. Image courtesy clix from StockXchng #449243. If you're going to build a Web page, you should be ... Read More

HTML frames are a lot like editor choice. You either love them or hate them - and if you hate them, it tends to be a rabid, irrational hate. Image courtesy ... Read More

I have found that people either love sound on Web pages or absolutely hate it. Image courtesy J Kyrnin I am a member of the "hate it" group. In fact, I ... Read More

You probably know that it's a shorthand property. And you probably know that you can define the weight, variant, and style as well as line-height. Image courtesy vierdrie from StockXchng ... Read More

There's a CSS 3 property called background-size that looks really cool. Image courtesy alitaylor from StockXchng #698476. It allows you to set a single background image and have the browser resize ... Read More

I was very surprised when I noticed that a fairly obscure page was rising rapidly in the page rankings. Image courtesy mwookie from StockXchng #683746. After all, while I could see ... Read More

I am still amazed at the resistance people have to writing accessible Web pages. I have been teaching how to do it for nearly as long as I've had a ... Read More

I've been using a Treo for a while, and I actually like using it to browse the Web. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. But Web pages are not always very friendly ... Read More

One of the font properties that I wish I had occasion to use more often is font-variant. Image courtesy vierdrie from StockXchng #509192. Small caps are an interesting variation on the ... Read More

It doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes you might be editing a Web page and realize that you don't want to use the document type that is currently set. ... Read More

A very popular question I get is "how wide should I design my Web pages?" While the best (if annoying) answer is "it depends", it is possible to look at ... Read More

I've updated the Web Design Design Gallery with 17 new sites and the Web designers with 7 new designers. It's fun looking at different Web pages - people are very ... Read More

The easiest way to write correct HTML and CSS is to use an HTML editor that writes it for you. But even the best editor can introduce errors, especially if ... Read More

If I were living in the Bay Area, I would consider applying for these jobs. They sound like they would be a lot of fun. If you didn't have to work... Image ... Read More

There is no magic bullet for deciding what resolution or browser width to design for. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. It depends a lot upon what your customers use. If ... Read More

I can never seem to remember the CSS property for getting italic text; for some reason, "font-style" just doesn't click with me. Image courtesy vierdrie from StockXchng #509192. But I suppose ... Read More

Prototypes are a great way to mock up a Web page quickly - especially if you like working with pencil and paper or a graphics program like Photoshop. Dreamweaver 8Image ... Read More

None of us wants to create a Web site that is deliberately hard on the eyes, but if you don't understand the basics of color theory you could be doing ... Read More

Things behind the scenes here at About.com were a bit hectic as replication died causing nothing to go live on Friday. Isn't Web design fun? Image courtesy geri-jean from StockXchng ... Read More

I got a question a while ago about C++. Specifically, how much time does a Web developer spend using programming languages like C++. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. While the true ... Read More

I got the following question the other day: Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. Is there a design/code view of the frameset/noframes page to edit the head tags and noframes body content? I have ... Read More

I was working on a site a few weeks ago and had come up with a design that I thought the owners would like - it used all the greens ... Read More

I was off last week and didn't have a chance to check my email. So of course, I got 32 new Web designers submitted to my Web Designers listing. Image © Jenny ... Read More