Web design

Covering a range of topics from questions you should be asking, to accessibility (including colour blindness), to meta. Some of it’s dated, but it’s a look back at history.

HTML character codes : Links

Sites dedicated to HTML character codes HTML character code links of interest Addenda, 2021: Seems dated, now, but I originally wrote this section about twenty years ago – before Google, before sites like w3Schools. The standards list is : Unicode.org charts If you like fonts and languages, you HAVE to see the next place! Besides […]

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HTML Character codes: Symbols

HTML Character codes for common symbols HTML Character Symbols Covers: [ Playing cards ] [ Arrows ]* [ Latin-1 ] [ Special punctuation ] [ Letter-like characters]* [ Technical ]* *(Note that most of these are unsupported in the earlier version of Microsoft Explorer, such as 6 and 7). HTML codes for playing card symbols

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HTML character codes: Greek

HTML character codes: Greek HTML Character codes : Greek characters Α Capital alpha Α Α Β Capital beta Β Β Γ Capital gamma Γ Γ Δ Capital delta Δ Δ Ε Capital epsilon Ε Ε Ζ Capital zeta Ζ Ζ Η Capital eta Η Η Θ Capital theta Θ Θ Ι Capital iota Ι Ι

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ISO 8859 Character Sets

ISO character sets Language character sets ISO-8859-1 Latin-1 ASCII plus most Western European languages. e.g., Albanian, Finnish, Spanish and Swedish. Apparently omits certain Dutch, French & German characters ISO-8859-2 Latin-2 ASCII plus most Central European languages. e.g., Czech, German, Polish & Serbian ISO-8859-3 Latin-3 ASCII plus support for German, Maltese and Galician ISO-8859-4 Latin-4 ASCII

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HTML ISO-Latin-1 Character set: accented characters

HTML code for accented characters Standard accented characters À (capital A, grave accent) À À Á (capital A, acute accent) Á Á Â (capital A, circumflex accent) Â Â Ã (capital A, tilde) Ã Ã Ä (capital A, umlaut or dieresis) Ä Ä Å (capital A, ring) Å Å Æ (capital AE diphthong (ligature)) Æ

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Site revision : Nov 2013, moving over to WordPress

Just a short post to cover the changes going on here and apologise for the ugly, perhaps unsettling jarring effect of bouncing from one version of the site to another. Really I should do this off-line, badgering away for months hacking, tweaking and polishing and then unleash the new, improved, singing, dancing, silky smooth, glossy-coated

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Design test page

This page serves no purpose, it is simply here for me to see styling effects when I’ll trying new fonts, CSS or child themes. When I get a minute I’ll go through all the stuff deprecated from (stripped out of) HTML5/CSS3 and the cool stuff added, like rounded corners, gradient shading and shadows. Going slow

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