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Mani Sheriar Blog!

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you!
For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

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Useful and fun!

Position is Everything, a tremendous resource on CSS and standards development, has several new articles available:
CSS Hacks and IE7
In Search of the One True Layout
On Having Layout
Issue 206 is available at ALA, A List Apart. It contains another two article that are worth reading: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign and Attack of the Zombie Copy.
The 35 [...]

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October 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in CSS, Other, Books & Fun Stuff, Web Development |

Mix and Match

Dustin Diaz has put together a very nice CSS Shorthand Guide. What’s nice about this guide is that it includes the default value for the property values so you don’t have to guess at what will display if you don’t include a value in your shorthand.
CSS Selectors, Part 3 is now available at 456 Berea Street! [...]

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Tools and Reminders

Have you installed the Internet Explorer Developer toolbar? I have been using it for the last few weeks and it’s quite helpful. It offers a lot of the same tools as the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox. This is just a friendly reminder that these tools/extensions will really help when developing web sites. You can find additional [...]

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October 23rd, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS, Firefox Extensions, Job Search, Planning & Organization |

Contra Costa County Library Business Connection

The Contra Costa County Library now offers a service on their web site called Business Connection. This section of their site is designed to help local entrepreneurs and the small business community connect more easily with the information they need and with each other. There are numerous resources on the site and there are free workshops. What [...]

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October 20th, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in Job Search |

Just a few treats

How to write a resume offers free tips on resume writing, interviewing, and writing cover letters.
ColourMod offers color pickers in various flavors; for Mac users there is a widget (small helper application), Windows users can use a Konfabulator widget, and for all platforms there is a DHTML plugin. I downloaded and tried the Konfabulator widget and it’s very nice.
Andy [...]

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October 20th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Color, Job Search, Software & Freeware Programs |

Posting Resumes on Craigslist

Making Your Resume Stand Out on Craigslist
With over 6,000 resumes posted to just the Bay Area section of Craigslist, how do your resume stand out from the rest?
Style it! When you’re posting your resume on Craigslist you can use HTML and basic inline CSS to control the look of your resume or any other posting. Here is a [...]

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October 18th, 2005 | 6 Comments | Posted in CSS, Job Search, Web Development, XHTML & Coding |

New Class Hours!

Very exciting news today; our main office has authorized an adjustment of our classroom hours. The new classes will be 12:15-4:15 p.m. and 4:15-6:15 p.m, both classes will meet Monday-Friday. I think the new hours will give more people an opportunity to attend our program; these new time slots should work better for people who are working, in [...]

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October 17th, 2005 | 1 Comment | Posted in CSS, Class Notes, Color, Fonts |

Happy Friday – A few web development resources for the weekend

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 2 is now available. If you missed the first installment, read CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1 first. Since so many of you are working on the CSS unit now, these would be great articles for you to review.
W3C Compliance and SEO – learn why W3C compliance can improve your search engine ranking.
Here is a [...]

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Beta Goodies Around the Web

Some of you have mentioned to me that the current class forum is difficult to navigate. I tend to agree, the forum itself seems to be a bit clumsy. Currently we are using a content management system called Xoops. I decided to test some of the different content management systems to see if another platform would meet [...]

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