CSS and handling text overflow
Recently I was trying to solve a problem with an long text string that widened a table beyond its required width - causing the page to go out of alignment. Like a lot of you readers I'm a code junky...
View ArticleRSS, Blogs and the Web Pendulum
Did you ever think about why RSS feeds have evolved and become such a ready standard? It seems like it happened overnight. One day we are all writing screen scraping routines to harvest information and...
View ArticleThird String Editor - What Bothers me about Dreamweaver
Dislaimer: Mark absolutely loves Macromedia. If Macromdedia were a woman Mark would have pictures of Macromedia on his closet door (although his wife would think it strange). Mark would be flipping...
View ArticleSexism and Web Design - of Puce and Men
A friend of mine (Mike Klostermeyer) made me aware of an article on CNN regarding the aesthetic appeal of web sites to different sexes. The story is on CNN and it's titled "Web site's appearance...
View ArticleHow to Build a Website in 4 Hours (without Elves)
If it hasn't happened to you already it will happen eventually. Someday soon, someone is going to ask for your help building a web site pro-bono. Now, I think this is a very good idea. If you are a...
View ArticleTesting 800 by 600 Resulution Using a Browser Bookmark
While I buy the axiom that "size isn't everything" in spite of how my spam is constantly nagging me about it, I must say I do like having a really big display for programming. I like being able to see...
View ArticleHelp an Aspiring Animator
My nephew is 16 or 17 and wants to become an animation/game programmer. He's been working using a product called blender. It seems to be pretty polished for an open source project. I was impressed...
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