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What’s Your Position?

Evolt has an excellent article on 10 Steps to Higher Search Engine Positioning. May I also recommend that you read Understanding Color and Accessibility, be sure to read the user comments, they can be both educational and entertaining. Did you know that Dan Cody, the founder of f2o.org, was the founder of Evolt?

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March 8th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Color, Search Engines & Optimization |

Way to Go Mani!

There are six new designs at the CSS Zen Garden including Moss by Mani Sheriar, a former student. Way to go Mani!

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March 8th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS |

CSS Editors

For those of you who are using a Mac you may want to check out CSS Edit by MacRabbit. I installed this CSS Editor on our Mac in the classroom. To see additional CSS and HTML/XHTML editors visit CSSDiscuss. Right now I am trying out TSW’s WebCoder for the classroom (freeware) and StyleMaster for home use.

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March 7th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Software & Freeware Programs |

Sage, RSS and other Goodies

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Some students have asked me how I manage to keep up with everything in the classroom and how I find such a variety of sites for them to visit. First off, Google is my best friend. I use the Google toolbar to quickly perform general searches when I need to find info on something fast. I used to always use [...]

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CSS Zen Garden Thumbnails

Light Seek has put together a thumbnail gallery of the various entries in the CSS Zen Garden. This should be nice way to browse the beautiful garden.

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March 7th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS |

Cross Browser Navigation Bars in CSS

List-u-like is a CSS Generator that creates cross browser navigation bars. Pretty nifty!

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March 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS |

The Zen of CSS Design

I started skimming my new copy of the Zen of CSS design last night and found a link in the "Closing thoughts" section of the book that you may find useful; it’s a CSS Cribsheet. Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of the Zen of CSS design, her wonderful web site is located at http://www.molly.com. She currently has an article on [...]

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March 1st, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS, Web Development |

A Little About Me and the Purpose of this Site

I teach computer applications and web page design to adults in sunny California. I’ve been doing this for longer than I care to admit, but I can honestly say that I still love my job. This blog will be used for me to share web sites, articles, tips, and other interesting items that relate to web design and computers in [...]

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March 1st, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Class Notes |

CSS and Color

Zooiblog has an article on fixed positioning and backgrounds; I thought you might be interested in this since it mentions the PNG transparency hack we were discussing a couple of weeks ago. WebCredible has a condense, informative article on CSS hacks and Browser Dectection. This is a really good page to print out and add to your web tricks binder. [...]

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February 28th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Color, CSS |

CSS Shorthand Properties

456 Berea Street has a nice list of Efficient CSS with shorthand properties. While you’re there, take the time to read Basics of search engine optimisation.

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February 25th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS, Search Engines & Optimization |
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