Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Introduction To Programming: Web Programming Languages — ASP

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

ASP is a server-side scrpting platform that is used by Windows servers. Like PHP, ASP is used to prepare web pages dynamically before sending them to the browser…

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Introduction To Programming: Object Orientated Programming Principles

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Although I didn’t know it at the time, my first exposure to OOP was with TADS, a language for developing text-based adventure games…

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Centring Block Elements (Such as divs)

Monday, May 29th, 2006

As I recently saw that some members of the class were still interested in learning how to do this, I thought I’d post this link…

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Introduction To Programming: General Programming Principles

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Why do we even want to learn programming languages for Web Design…

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Accented characters, shapes, arrows and uncommon punctuation

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

We are familiar with some of the special ‘character entites’ available in html, such as & (for an &), however, there are a great many of them around…

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Showcase of accessible design — Accessites.org

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Accessites is a website of a sort we’ve seem several of in class already: a showcase of good website design…

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Definition Lists

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Definition lists are probably the least used of the three HTML list types. They are used primarily for things such as glossaries or other dictionary-type setups, but can be effectively used for anything where you need an expanded description attached to something…

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20 Questions

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

An interesting ‘toy’ site: Think of an object. The site will ask you questions about it and try to guess what the object it is, with a pretty good success rate…

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Getting Ranked on Google is like Speed Dating

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

In the Sydney Morning Herald’s NEXT section today there was an article on Search Engine Optimisation. The full article is on the SMH website…

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What Fonts Should I Use?

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

When Aldona posted asking for help on the google group, one snippet of code surprised me: font-family: “High Tower Text”, “Balloon”, “Arial”, “Harlow Solid Italic”, “Times New Roman” ;…

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