I was recently asked how to handle client requests that are ‘bad’ for usability or just bad in general.
A friend of mine has a client who asked her to do a site that is really, really bad. The client sent an example url of what they are looking for –wow, not good at all. So […]
I am pretty excited about html 5.
<div> tags will still exist - but now there are cool new tags like <header>, <section>, <nav>, and <footer> (among others).
Basically all those things that we had to specify <div> tags as are included.
Some other neat tags to look forward to:
aside - this is content outside of the main […]
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It all started with computers linking together to share their resources. This is called Networking. When the computers that are linked are close together this is called a LAN (Local Area Network). When the network covers a larger area, such as a whole city, this is called a WAN (Wide Area Network). The Internet is […]
A browser is the software that interprets and displays HTML. At first there was no governing body to ensure standards…so the W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, now maintains official HTML specifications.
The basic HTML template looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<!–My Comments–>
<title>Title at top left of browser window</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Content here is displayed in browser</p>
</body>
</html>
Ok, now it’s time […]
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It is pretty easy to make the bullets and lists that are seen in webpages.There are three lists supported by HTML: ordered, unordered, and definition. There is the <ol></ol> ordered list. Guess what? It’s ordered numerically. Check out the syntax for an HTML ordered list:
<ol type=”list type“>
<li>HTML
<li>JavaScript
<li>PHP
</ol>
The “list type” refers to the type of bullet […]
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First of all, you should only use .jpg or .gif to display images. .png only has limited support at this time, so just use .jpg or .gif. If you have an image in another format, convert it to a .jpg or .gif first.
Images can be displayed in two ways: inline or external. An inline image […]
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<a> & </a> The anchor tag is used to create links. There are a number of attributes for the anchor tag. (An attribute further defines the properties of the HTML tag - kind of like an adjective).
One such attribute is the ‘href’ attribute. The ‘href’ attribute is used to create a link to another document, […]
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To merge several cells into one, you need to create what is called a spanning cell, which just happens to be a cell that spans more than one row or column in a table. To span a column or td, we use colspan. To span more than one row or tr, we use rowspan. The […]
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Tables in HTML allow a user to present information in a more organized manner. Tables can be a complicated process because a lot of information is required to define the layout and appearance of a table. The table structure must be specified, rows and columns. The table starts with a <table> tag - followed by […]
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First off, this section will only tell you how to make a form, not how to do anything with it. I hope to have php and javascript form processing and validation pages up soon. In the meantime, lets talk about forms in general. Below is a table of commonly used form control elements:
Type:
Code/Description:
Example:
Text
<input type=”text” name=”name” […]
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