Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

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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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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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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How to Bluff Your Way in Javascript! SXSW Podcast

Monday, April 24th, 2006

How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting was the title of the video Michael failed to show us before, due to TAFE network restrictions…

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Tags and Tag Clouds

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

In The Quest for a Better Category List – Part the First: A Basic CSS/JavaScript Popup Menu Michael commented:

…I keep finding categories too restrictive, and not very user friendly for navigating…

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SXSW Podcasts

Friday, April 14th, 2006

While the videos released of the SXSW conference might be, as Michael said, ‘pov’, there are a large number of substantial mp3s, ‘podcasts’, as it were, available for download…

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New Theme

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

I’ve made a new theme for my blog. It’s based on the default wordpress theme. The styles are, however, significantly altered…

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