Most web pages are built with that elusive "HTML" thing. Those 4 letters that web developers, Internet users and trendy grandmothers brandish about as though everybody knows what they mean. But do they really know what HTML is? Do they know what those 4 letters stand for? Many of the clients I build websites for tell me they need HTML PHP or HTML JavaScript or a WordPress HTML site; and then there are those who confuse a theme header with the head tags of a webpage. So I believe that, though people know about this thing called HTML, people use those 4 letters - H.T.M.L - to make themselves … [Read more...]
CSS3 Animated Spinning Things!

I learned a new trick this week and I'm pretty impressed with myself. I learned how to use CSS3 to animate page elements. With the tricks I learned at The Art of Web and Web Development Blog, I can make any HTML page element move around, expand and spin when touched by a mouse cursor. I've even figured out how to combine animations. The following shows a few examples of what can be done with CSS3. Nothing spectacular but it'll entertain you for a few minutes. I've already put CSS3 to work at JournalXtra. The curved borders on some of the page elements, the popup search box in the sidebar … [Read more...]


