Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog

Many beginning Web designers focus so much on learning HTML, CSS, and other languages, that they forget that Web design is design, not just Web. Image courtesy CraigPJ from StockXchng ... Read More

One of the best ways to improve your rankings in search engines like Google is to get more links from other Web sites. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. And one ... Read More

One of the cool things about RSS is that it really is easy to learn and use. Image courtesy J Kyrnin There are only a limited number of tags, and if ... Read More

Dreamweaver allows you to edit RSS in the XML, but if you're not comfortable editing XML, this can be daunting. Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. But there is hope - there is ... Read More

One of the great things about CSS is the ability to specify the font you want your page text to display in. Font families: Goudy Stout, Papyrus, Kunstler Script, and ... Read More

It's easy to get the About.com Web Design / HTML site delivered right to you with RSS syndication. You can read it in a newsreader or post it directly to ... Read More

There is a reason they say that a "picture is worth a thousand words," and in Web design, the graphics, images and photographs you use can make or break your ... Read More

Some days, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the office is just to darn gloomy to work indoors. Image courtesy demauro from StockXchng #655579. So I pack up ... Read More

One of the best ways to get people to come to your Web site is to send out a newsletter. Most people who sign up for newsletters are doing so ... Read More

When you're building Web pages you need to cover so many variables and make so many different choices that it's inevitable that not everything will work out as you would ... Read More

There are many HTML coders out there who scorn the use of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editors for various reasons. Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. But what ... Read More

Mark Boulton has a really great Web site and blog about Web design and Web practices. If you haven't seen it before now, you should definitely take a look. Image ... Read More

I got asked the other day why I like using XML instead of online Web forms for the About.com CMS, and I started thinking more about XML. Image courtesy J Kyrnin Why ... Read More

You won't find a specification on DHTML, and the term dynamic HTML can mean something different on every site that you come to. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. What does DHTML ... Read More

Trying to place something on a Web page is a lot harder than trying to find your position on a map. Image courtesy lusi from StockXchng #790325. The main reason for ... Read More

It's rare, but it sometimes happens. In general, I find that Web pages with black backgrounds are a bit scary and hard to do well. Screen shot courtesy J Kyrnin. That ... Read More

The public beta starts today of Safari 3 for Windows. It's also available free for Macintosh users. :-) Image courtesy J Kyrnin. I don't know whether to be happy or upset that ... Read More

For a long time, the words "box model" were a very difficult concept for me. Image courtesy M Kyrnin. I understood margins, padding, and borders, but putting them together created havoc ... Read More

When I started in this business, I worked for a year or two as a Web Writer. My job was to be a technical writer for a tech support Web ... Read More

Commenting your code can mean the difference between a maintainable design and complete chaos, but if you're not in the habit of using comments they can be easy to forget. Image ... Read More

The W3C announced this week two updates to the CSS 3 specifications. Image courtesy J Kyrnin Media Queries is now a candidate recommendation. One step closer to full recommendation status. The CSS ... Read More

CSS 2 and CSS 3 offer a large number of cursor options if you're willing to use them. Image courtesy J Kyrnin But very few Web sites avail themselves of the different ... Read More

Dreamweaver makes it easy to add CSS styles to your Web pages. You just need to learn the styles pane. Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. CSS can be very overwhelming, so it's nice ... Read More

One thing that many beginning Web designers forget about is that not everyone in the world speaks their language. Image courtesy CraigPJ from StockXchng #605488. And yet, your Web site might be ... Read More

If you're like me, probably not. :-) After all, we all deserve to get millions of page views a day! And yet, unless you're running Google.com you probably don't get ... Read More