Today I’m using Dreamweaver to demonstrate how site layout used to be done using complex nested tables versus today where we use cascading style sheets. I started creating websites in the late 1990s and back then you didn’t have cascading style sheets to work with. You had a very limited version of html and really …
So far in my CSS when I’ve been putting colors in, I’ve been mostly using keywords like red, orange, black, grey, et cetera. In CSS, there is a big list of keywords. So those are all the keywords you can use, but that definitely doesn’t cover all the possible colors that you want. So, in …
So today, in this special article, I’m gonna give you a quick overview of what the web is and how it works. Lame! Yeah! Maybe there will be stuff you already know, but you could be surprised. And if you’re not, show this article to someone who will be! Anyway, we have to start somewhere… …
HT… What? Basically HTML is a descriptive language that allows us to tell a web browser how to handle text content. It doesn’t make any sense, does it? Nope! Okay, we’d better get into some details. HTML is the oldest language of the web. Even though it took a few years to be formally defined, …
In the previous articles we talked about various web technologies at the heart of the web and we’ve said that web browsers are mixing things together in order to display web documents Yeah, that really sounds like voodoo magic! Really? Okay, so today, let’s talk a bit more about how browsers work and… Let’s kill …