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Search Engine Optimization Resources

I wanted to share some search engine optimization resources with you. As you’re writing content and coding you must take search engine optimization into account; it does no good to create a beautiful site if nobody can find it. These articles will give you a good foundation for creating pages that are search engine friendly.
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November 30th, 2005 | 4 Comments | Posted in Search Engines & Optimization |

Email Design Guidelines for 2006

The subject of email design comes up quite a bit in class. I thought you might find this article Email Design Guidelines for 2006 helpful.

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November 30th, 2005 | 1 Comment | Posted in CSS, Design and Layout |

More CSS Layout Resources

CSS Intensivstation offers several XHTML and CSS templates for you to use. There are also 15 CSS short How-to articles and links to other resources.
MaxDesign also offers numerous sample CSS page layouts. You may also want to check out their presentations and articles.
Template:css – this site provides links to numerous CSS templates. Screen captures of each of [...]

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November 30th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS |

Advisory Committee Follow-up – JavaScript

When I met with our advisory committee earlier in the month we discussed teaching JavaScript in the web development program. Unfortunately, our course has a limited duration and we just can’t teach it all (don’t I wish). Since our course is designed to teach students entry-level web development skills I feel that we cannot delve too deeply [...]

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November 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in PHP/MySQL & JavaScript |

Time Savers

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – a wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. You may also like the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Both of these wizards will generate CSS and HTML code for your web pages.
5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop – this [...]

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Favourite Website Awards

The Favourite Website Awards was established in 2000 to showcase the latest and best cutting edge web sites. The sites showcased are considered “future thinking and progressively designed sites that feature cutting edge technologies”. These sites typically employ Flash designs and some may require the Flash 8 player.

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November 22nd, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Adobe, Web Development |

Design and Coding Resources

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors – Lorelle on WordPress has a wonderful roundup of color resources on her blog today. Yummy!
graphicPUSH offers a Blog Icon Pack, a set of free icons for your [...]

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Views of a Web Page

Yesterday I encouraged you all to read the article Fixing Browsers: Bugs and Hacks by Lorelle VanFossen. Lorelle was kind enough to share another article she wrote, Views of a Web Page. In this article, Lorelle describes in wonderful detail the testing process used when building a web page. The article discusses developing and testing for [...]

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November 19th, 2005 | 1 Comment | Posted in Browser Issues, Other, Books & Fun Stuff, Photography |

Checking and Validating Sites

Checking Sites for Consistency
One of the really tough parts of web development is getting your site layout consistent in multiple browsers on multiple platforms (Windows (98, 2000, XP), Macintosh, Linux, etc.), with different resolutions when you’re using CSS. You must ensure that your site looks good in various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, and Konqueror [...]

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November 18th, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in Browser Issues, CSS, XHTML & Coding |

Class Resources for New Students

Just a few class resources that new students should be aware of:
Information about class resources including: Job search, class procedures, holidays, session dates, attendance, file management, book discounts, software discounts, and ergonomics can be found by visiting the course home page at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us and clicking the link named Current Students in the orange menu bar.
Check the online version of [...]

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November 17th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Class Notes, Web Development |
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