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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
TweetHTML allows the use of characters Aa-Zz and 0-9, together with ! and ?. The only quotes available for use in text are straight quotes. All other characters are known as ‘Special Characters’. So how do you include Special Characters? HTML Character Encodings. All HTML Character Encodings begin with an ampersand (&) and finish with [...]
Tags: amp, ampersand, apos, apostrophe, ascii character, character encodings, entities, hash symbol, html pages, html parsers, internet explorer, keyboard, notations, quot, semi colon, source code
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
TweetHow do web designers manage to get those cool effects, like overlapping boxes, shadows and rounded corners? Well, it used to be fairly tricky to do, using extra <span> elements with background images (for rounded corners) and extra divs with darker backgrounds (for box shadows). Don’t even mention drop shadows on text: the only browser [...]
Tags: axis, background images, blur, boxes, css2, dimensional space, divs, drop shadows, element, elements, inset, internet explorer, negative integer, rounded corners, span, stacking order, text shadow, web designers, whole number
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
TweetOnce you have understood the display property and the parent-child relationship in CSS, it is time to move the elements around with relation to one another and the page itself. We do this using the position property, and x and y coordinates. Once you have set a width on an element, restricting the size of [...]
Tags: bad idea, block level elements, default position, document flow, internet explorer, level element, logos, padding, page scrolls, parent child relationship, position property, relative position
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetThis is the first in a series derived from lessons given at HUTS Workshop, Newcastle Emlyn. The class was designed for a group ranging from absolute computer novices to experts. HUTS Workshop is an independent charity where people who need support work on various craft projects to sell in local shops. I am a member. [...]
Tags: academic papers, computer novices, computer program, craft projects, domain name system, gecko, google, huts, hypertext markup language, independent charity, information web, internet explorer, language html, mac os x, mac os x tiger, os x tiger, snow leopard, tcp ip protocol, web browsers, websites websites
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
TweetNow that CSS3 and HTML5 are well and truly here, fixing websites for Internet Explorer has become a more arduous task than most designers are prepared to undertake. Why do I say this? Well, taking a look at the web today it seems that the majority of web designers have simply given up on adding [...]
Tags: arduous task, background color, borders, bugs, chrome, chrome frame, colour, css, css3, cutting edge, design, drop shadows, gif, gradients, html, internet explorer, javascript, jQuery, png, replacements, rounded corners, safari, segments, square corners, textured background, transparent areas, trident, web designers, web today, webkit
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
TweetFixed positioning is fairly uncommon in css, but can be a nifty little trick. However it was only implemented in Internet Explorer from IE7 onwards. It should work in IE8, but for some reason it doesn’t always behave as expected. It’s possible to get around this by forcing IE8 to emulate IE7, but a simple [...]
Tags: bugs, css, design, google, ie7, ie8, internet explorer, w3c, xhtml doctype
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
TweetI have just been making a jQuery popover for a client’s site. I must confess, I cheated and adapted the information in this wonderful jQuery popover effects tutorial on teamtutorials.com. It’s a great timesaver for someone like me, as I’m no jQuery maven. I have had hours of fun writing programs in JavaScript, but DOM [...]
Tags: appearance, browser window, bugs, design, DHTML, internet explorer, jQuery, popover, remove(), scripting, special effects, splash, writing programs, youtube video
Posted in jQuery, web design | 4 Comments »