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!
November 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
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...]
Making Better HTML Table Borders
May 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Big ugly table borders only work for people with fetishes about big ugly table borders. Of the fetishes I have, that is one I am glad to report I lack. I enjoy looking at thinly lined tables that are as neatly displayed as those one might draw on paper. You might not believe that while looking at some of the tables used in JournalXtra in the past, but I hope to show you the light I have seen. It took me a while to realize a simple way to change the appearance of HTML tables to make the borders pencil thin. I knew I could set styling properties in the CSS to change the border width, to … [Read more...]
