status.blogger.com
blogger api what's api? planet of the api?
pro blogger
bloggerPro help
send posts to your blog via email


-- posted by Palema on 5/30/2002

 
Information on publicizing your blog is available at one of the new help pages Blogger has issued.
Besides listing several blog directories, this page has links to the popular search engines like Google, HotBot, AltaVista and Excite.
Don't forget including meta tags in the head section of a page -- this page shows how.


-- posted by Palema on 5/25/2002

 
Like the alt tag in images, the summary tag for tables assists browsers other than visual ones, such as a screen reader.

<table SUMMARY="Red, green and blue rectangles" border=0>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=red> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td>
<td bgcolor=green>&nbsp;&nbsp; </td>
<td bgcolor=blue>&nbsp;&nbsp; </td>
</tr>
</table>

That code will produce the following:


This is from chami.com. Read the rest of it Chami com tips

If you want to find out what a screen reader does with that summary, visit the ibm website and download a trial version of the IBM Homepage reader



-- posted by Palema on 5/16/2002

 
Someone on the HWG-Techniques list recently asked ['CSS question with NN' 4/29/02) if there's a way in CSS to create two styles, one for NN one for IE, and have it match the browser?

The answer, supplied by HWG regular Elizabeth Davies, was to combine a linked style sheet for the older Netscape browser and
an imported one for the newer. Like so:


The older version doesn't recognize @import and so ignores it; the newer browsers, of course, recognize and thus use the second command - that's how cascading works.

For further research, some CSS browser compatibility links:
web review
About.com
Cascading Style Sheets - general css help
Freespace compatibility chart

[code note: The coding for this entry included html tags and css references. The left and right angle brackets are designated as greater-than and less-than, thus: &lt; &gt; Furthermore, the 'at' symbol is designated as &#64. The 'at' jammed up the blogger javascript until designated thus. I had to look pretty hard to find the character entity for it. See Hypertext markup for a long list of symbols.]

-- posted by Palema on 5/06/2002