Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

A short history of Georgia and Verdana

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

This turned up in popular webdesign links, and describes the background behind two of the most-loved fonts for the internet…

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HTML Tidy — Correct and tidy HTML code

Monday, July 10th, 2006

HTML Tidy is a program for checking and tidying HTML files. It can tidy your code by doing automatic indentation, it can scan for errors and even generate a version of your code with the errors fixed…

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Smultron: Version 2.01

Monday, July 10th, 2006

A new version of the Smultron text editor for MacOS 10.4 has been released…

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Introduction To Programming: Web Programming Languages — CGI

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Common Gateway Interface, or CGI was the first method of server side scripting. It was developed by the NCSA to more easily allow for dynamic applications…

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Smultron — Open-Source Text Editor for MacOSX

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

I’ve looked for a good text editor for Mac for a long time, and just so happened to stumble upon one while looking at a blog for an example of navigation styles of all things…

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Introduction To Programming: Web Programming Languages — JSP

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

JSP is a server side programming platform developed by Sun Microsystems. It uses the Java programming language for server side scripting…

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Web Comics and Programming Languages

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

In the spirit of today’s lesson on programming languages, I thought I’d post a link to this comic: Death To The Extremist XXIX…

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Liquid layouts the easy way

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

These links come from the Max Design website and are about making liquid webpage layouts. The first is an tutorial on how to make the layout, the second is made up of presentation slides and links…

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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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