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Category Archives: Web development
‘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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Alt text (revisited)
An end-of-year apology to my readers. I don’t post as often as I mean to. One reason is that my posts are becoming too measured—and too all-inclusive. So here is a quick tip for all my readers who are designing … Continue reading
Visual Display IS Content (ii)
In what I take to be a modern classic in graphic design education, Making and Breaking the Grid (Rockport, 2002), Timothy Samara makes the obvious preliminary point. “Pictures and symbols, fields of text, headlines, tabular data: all these pieces must … Continue reading
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Visual Display IS Content (i)
As should be clear from my last few posts, I am a big fan of what has come to called “the semantic Web.†Part of this movement is about making it easier for machines (computers, or computer software) to read … Continue reading
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IDs and classes
My last couple of posts have been about freeing HTML. One aspect of this is making the right sort of use of the attributes id and class. You can assign an id or class attribute to just about any HTML … Continue reading
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Rarely used HTML tags
I know, I know. This really is train spotting or bird spotting stuff. (Why are there so few entries in Google for “HTML anorak”?) But it’s also a kind of confession. In my last post, I wanted to emphasise that … Continue reading
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