Thursday, July 15, 2004

New layout with XHTML

I’ve taken a few days to re-build pagetoscreen.net and get rid of tables where possible. This page validates to XHTML Transitional OK, but I still have some old blog entries which are without their alt tags for the images. pMachine provides no easy way to go back and correct this. I have been through and edited some but I guess the best way would be to to some global search and replace in the mySQL database.

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Thursday, July 08, 2004

Me learning eLearning

Today I am at the eLearning conference, hosted by my university.

We are told that ‘e’ is for embedding and enhancing and so the day is less about the technology more about the pedagogies for eLearning. Matt Justice, who works at the Ryerson University, Canada told us the the ‘e’ is for evolution. ‘e’ is also for enabling according to George Roberts.

The diversity of presentations through the day made me think that ‘e’ is not for easy!

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Monday, June 28, 2004

URLs in Print

I often observe that web site addresses are published in print and there seems to be little consistency in the way people do it! I thought I should investigate the minimum web address that needs to be indicated to get a successful hit on a web page. Most people would be happy with http://www.someplace.com and all browsers will add the http:// on to this automatically. Do we really need to show the cryptic "http://" ?

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Friday, April 30, 2004

Blogging (new and updated)

The web has become saturated with 'blogs'. Since about 1999 this phenomena has grown and grown. Why should we blog? Is this the new way to create for the web? Should we throw away all our HTML skills? If you want to create stuff for the web then you should become totally immersed in the medium. You need to spend as much time 'surfing' (a term that seems a little dated now!) as you do poking around with Flash, HTML or other code! If you do spend a lot of time browsing for things that interest you, then you will have noticed that a lot of people are posting to their web sites in a particular way. This way is known as 'blogging'.

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Web Standards

I was inspired to put together this presentation on Web Standards after reading Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘Designing with Web Standards’, New Riders, 2003. This book needs to be on all web designers shelves, alongside Jeffrey Veen’s marvellous ‘The Art and Science of Web Design’, New Riders, 2001.

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