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Daily Web Tips and Our Trip Out West

Posted on 9/13/2010 by

Website DevelopmentAs if I needed another blog, I’ve started another so that I don’t bore all of you with all the tips about web development.

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On a more personal note, Matthew and I are getting excited about our trip out west. We spent part of yesterday planning our route to see just how long it’s going to take us and how much money it will take. It’s going to be a LOT of driving and a LONG time away from home, but WOW it’s going to be EXCITING!! I know we will be glad to be back home.

If any of you have suggestions about attractions we might want to see while we are on the road, please let me know! Continue reading →

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Building a Website: Text Editors

Posted on 8/26/2010 by

When you save something on a computer, it saves it to a file. The information inside that file may be in one of many different formats. The file name extension, which is the part of the name after the last … Continue reading →

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How to Make Your Websites Interactive

Posted on 8/12/2010 by

As web development evolved, websites not only became better looking, but they also became more functional and interactive. More and more forms were being added so that not only could you find information, but you could send information as well. You didn’t just ‘read’ a website anymore, you could communicate with it. These new technologies opened the doors for shopping carts and ecommerce.

This interactivity required more than just HTML (structure) and CSS (style). Now, we needed languages that could make our pages more dynamic by adding in real time information or more interactive by processing and responding to the information that we could now enter into the forms. Continue reading →

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How to Add Style to Your Web Site

Posted on 8/9/2010 by

CSS CodeWhen websites first began, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was generally enough. It allowed us to make our online documents more readable. We could even format the documents to some degree. (If you want to know more about HTML and how it began, see my earlier post – How Websites Started.)

Enter cascading style sheets, or CSS for short. Cascading style sheets allow us to separate the structure of the document (HTML) from the look or ‘skin’ of the document (CSS). This allows designers to build better looking websites. Since CSS arrived on the scene, more, better graphics began to show up online. Websites were not only readable, but they were also becoming pretty. Continue reading →

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How Websites Started

Posted on 7/28/2010 by

Before I start explaining how to build your own website, I thought it might be helpful if I explained how websites came into existence. This won’t be a very technical explanation. For really technical stuff, you should head over to my other blog – just starting it so there’s not much there yet. Continue reading →

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