Here's a web site that offers a tutorial on Cascading Style Sheets and assorted tips . A very useful page.
It's getting quite hard to find web pages that have up-to-date tutorials. Even this one is a bit behind, but better than many.
-- posted by Palema on 11/29/2002

 
A wonderful feature of Mozilla which I have not previously seen in a browser is when you highlight some text on a web page and right click, among the options is view source for that area. This is such a convenience... I have often wondered at how an effect was achieved on a page and found the source code rather daunting to search through, especially if there's a few pasted javascripts in the head. This is a genuine shortcut!

-- posted by Palema on 11/29/2002

 
I always liked Netscape and began using MSIE when NS just wouldn't work any more and kept crashing my system. Now I have downloaded and am trying out Mozilla, which is based on the same thing as Netscape and looks like it. Guess what? You can blog in Mozilla!!! The only thing not functioning (today at least, and who knows why) is the shortcut buttons for I, B, and A HREF tags are not there. I can live without them although I did find them handy.


-- posted by Palema on 11/23/2002

 
[from article on WebMonkey]
There are three simple, fast, cheap things a developer can do to save time and money

1. Put a document type [DOCTYPE] declaration at the tope of each page, including the link to the standards by which your page should be read. If the DOCTYPE is not there, or isn't formatted properly, the browser reverts to a backwards-compatibility mode, behaving like its quirky late-1990s predecessors
   
2. Validate your code. if you really want to create cross-platform HTML and remove proprietary browser tricks from your site, you should be validating your HTML with the W3C's HTML validator at validator.w3.org Also validate the css and run it through Bobby to test for accessibility issues. WebMonkey has a tutorial on web accessibility.
   
3. Finally: get rid of all FONT tags, and use only style sheets. A core concept behind the development of stylesheets and the document object model (DOM) was the separation of a site's content, presentation, and behavior. Content is to be handled by HTML, presentation by CSS, and behavior by the DOM. .

For some help in using css for layout, check out thenoodleincident.com's tutorial on css box making.

I personally find it invaluable to have a stylesheet editor. I used the free downloadable version of TopStyle for a while, then bought the paid version. It's excellent!

-- posted by Palema on 11/22/2002

 
http://bronzefrogs.com/blogs/archive><$BlogArchiveLink$>

This is what shows up inthe url when I click the link to my archives (and of course I see Page Not Found .)

I know exactly what to do to fix this: in the template look for that link and change the > back to the " which is what it's supposed to be. Maddeningly, when I fix that, the other links with blogger code in them break.

Now (11-22-02, 9:43 a.m.) this post won't publish.
I checked the
FTP Results and saw the following: No Errors.
Files Transfered: file: /tmp/blogmover/3366134/bronzefrogs/blogs/tangledweb.html
file: /tmp/blogmover/3366134/bronzefrogs/blogs/archive/tangled.html

Popping back to the post page, the post is gone, only to be redicovered in the future section. Obviously Blogger is having a bad hair day, and it's time for me to take a net break!



-- posted by Palema on 11/22/2002

 
From one of Kate's pages, I surfed to this excellent page with links to articles on IA [information architecture] and information design.
The information architect considers the navigation links on a webpage, decideswhat the choices are, what they are called and where they take you when you click them. [ Christina Wodke ]

-- posted by Palema on 11/22/2002

 
AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions

Find a Person or Business by Phone Number


-- posted by Palema on 11/18/2002

 
EarthWeb.com: The IT Industry Portal  --  JavaScripts This script provides 10 customizable questions & answers. When you correct the test it shows which questions you got right and which you got wrong. It also shows the percentage of questions right
-- posted by Palema on 11/13/2002

 
Here are links to some sites with good, or interesting, or effective design

Good looking (not necessarily useable)

• Diffloth - former staffer of the Boston Globe


• Andrew Skwish's homepage.. page design and illustration


• Jeff - designer of Seattle times newspaper

Lists

• Webby awards


• Sites that Excel at Achieving Critical Business Goals

-- posted by Palema on 11/09/2002