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Category Archives: Web development
Colours and names in CSS style sheets
One of the easiest things to do in a CSS style sheet is to assign colours to elements. You have just 2 properties to play with, background colour and colour (in style sheets, of course, both properties have to be … Continue reading
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Another ‘iceberg’ Web site
A couple of weeks ago, I completed another ‘iceberg’ Web site, in which most of the site is restricted. As part of the process, I learned how to create a complete WordPress theme (about time I got round to properly … Continue reading
Moving a Web site based on a proprietary CMS (part 2)
On Monday I set the scene. We left our protagonist facing a task which all the wise men said was impossible. Fit stuff for stories. And it does make a good story, with lots of false starts and lessons learned—as … Continue reading
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Moving a Web site based on a proprietary CMS (part 1)
Can you move a Web site based on a proprietary Content Management System to which you have only a customer’s access? The short answer would seem to be ‘no’. One UK Web company includes this question among its FAQs: “Can … Continue reading
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One-page Web sites
How do people feel about one-page Web sites? For myself, I think they are pretty important, while a real Web site is being developed behind the scenes. I have a couple of Web sites in this position right now. One … Continue reading
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‘Web site’ or ‘website’?
You say ‘tomato,’ I say ‘Web site.’ Does it matter how we write it? In the long run, no. But then, as Keynes said, “In the long run we are all dead.” In the meantime, it helps to follow a … Continue reading
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Website design isn’t about the scenery
There are people who think that designing Web sites comes naturally to people who are computer-savvy. Other people think a good design is something visually appealing that they can see on a computer screen. Bad luck. That isn’t what Web … Continue reading
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HTTP 406 error: a fix
Have you ever encountered an HTTP 406 (“Not Acceptable”) error? I hadn’t, until this afternoon. I didn’t even know such an error existed. Now I know at least one way to fix it. An HTTP 406 error tells whoever is … Continue reading
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Website designer breaks own rules
Well, I’ve only got two rules out, and my most recently published website is breaking them. The site is for a laser stop-smoking technician here in Calpe: Laser Stop-Smoking. Well, it’s not actually breaking them. It has a fixed-size display … Continue reading
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Web site development: between rules
Just in case anyone misunderstood, the Web site design rules that I am making up as I go along are visual design rules. When I said, a couple of weeks ago, that “this is where we start,” I didn’t mean … Continue reading
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