RSS feeds have been around for a long time. My experience with them was limited to adding the NY Times and the BBC as “Live Bookmarks” in Firefox.
Slowly, I began to realize that there is more to it than that – a lot more. This is not an exhaustive list of uses for RSS feeds, [...]
Free online tool: Color Scheme Designer
This is a great resource if you don’t even want to think about it, or when you just need a helping hand.
Tips for web writing
“5 Writing Tips for Web Designers” has good advice for those of you who write for the web. Below is my summary and commentary. Also, see this related post.
1. Basically, it’s all about your customers’ needs for finding information, becoming a member, getting involved, donating, whatever. Everything – including links, navigation, info [...]
This is a multi-chapter curriculum that offers tutorials on web design concepts, HTML basics, CSS basics, web accessibility, best practices and more. I haven’t yet delved into this in detail, but I’m really excited to. I think this might be a great supplement to the mighty W3 Schools.
There are many advantages to building a site on top of WordPress:
automatic RSS feeds
chronological blog posts
event calendaring
content updated by authors rather than by a webmaster
A site can be built and handed over to a nonprofit organization to take ownership of. WordPress updates and upgrades are a breeze. As the future unfolds and plugins develop, your [...]
I found a cool CSS technique on this web page. The idea is have text wrap in a curvy, rather than in a block-like manner.
Here are the basic steps
Take an image and slice it into horizontal strips. Use the same height for each strip.
I use GIMP to make the image’s background transparent.
I saved the image [...]
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