Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog April 2008 Archive

Personally, I've felt for a long time that writing HTML with a good text editor, like Homesite or BBEdit is faster, in the long run, than using a WYSIWYG editor ... Read More

Most blog software these days will add links in comments and other user-generated content with the attribute rel="nofollow" This attribute was created by search engines to help prevent comment spammers from ... Read More

Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the nitty-gritty of Web development and forget the basics - like how do you take that HTML you've learned and put ... Read More

thesunnyside posted in the forums: "Here is a link to my new and improved CSS - no tables website http://www.thesunnyside.biz" My Thoughts When I look at the code, the first thing that ... Read More

Web designers too often get all their ideas from other Web designers. I mean think about it, how many times did you see the rainbow horizontal rule line when ... Read More

RockyMountainLadybug says: Of the 7,630,000 hits for the word Picard today, my Picard Surname Webpage can be found on page 3 at number 28... think of all the Star Trek ... Read More

One common tip for improving traffic to your website is to post more often. After all, if you post once a week, your readers will figure that out and come ... Read More

This month I received 10 submissions to the "What is a Webmaster" survey. What do you think a Webmaster is? What do you use as your job title? Most people ... Read More

So, having a baby makes me want to show off photos all the time. But since I'm a Web developer, I needed to create a website rather than drag around ... Read More

It was pointed out to me yesterday that I've never explained what the index.html page does on a website. Since nearly every site on the Internet has an index.html page, ... Read More

My Thoughts This is a site that has a lot going on. It's a real estate site, so it needs to have images of houses and prices and so on. It's ... Read More

And you can learn to use XML in just 10 weeks with this free XML class. The XML email course will teach you all about XML and how to write your ... Read More

Rocky Mountain Ladybug asks: "Anyone know much about IWA-HWG?... This is a composite organization made up of IWA (International Webmasters Association) and HWG (HTML Writers Guild). They are appear to ... Read More

There are five generic font families in Web design. And most of us have a preference for specific fonts or font families for the body text of our Web designs. ... Read More

Here are the most recent Web hosting service reviews submitted by other Web Design / HTML readers. I got 11 new reviews this month. If you love or hate your ... Read More

One of the challenges of including video on your Web pages is that the only valid tag for including video (object) is not widely supported by browsers. So to get ... Read More

It can be very tempting to create complex, complicated HTML and CSS to solve a problem on a website. But have you ever had to go in later and fix ... Read More

Dreamweaver is one of the most popular HTML editors available and there are many things you can do with it. For instance, it's both a WYSIWYG editor and a text ... Read More

depash asks: "I want to create a Web server at my office with several computers all connected to the Internet.... Can I access my web site once configured from any computer ... Read More

Color is a very subjective aspect of Web design. Colors that I like, you might hate. While colors that you find hideous may be the perfect colors for a specific ... Read More

As you already know, I'm very interested in how copyright law is being evaluated when it comes to Web pages. This article on IEEE Spectrum has some good advice for ... Read More

HTML tables are challenging. There are lots of aspects to them that can be confusing, especially if you're building them from scratch. The HTML tables FAQ should help you with ... Read More

Cascading style sheets are a huge topic and there's a lot to cover. But if all you're looking for is a way to learn the basics, then you should consider ... Read More

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