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.
Updates December 2005 Some of my other web sites appear offline ? If you are an existing Pipex / Webfusion customer and are experiencing repeated problem with service levels, support and downtime for your web site(s) I strongly urge you to report them to Trading Standards and to the BBC’s Watchdog. If enough of us […]
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Updates November 2005 While I remember: Do I appear to have spammed you recently? Well, if so: Nope, I almost never use Ackadia for email, haven’t in over a year. No point really, as I’ve reported elsewhere, I get several Spam myself – several A SECOND, that is No, I’m not kidding. I used to
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Home page from October 2005 Just trying out a new web traffic analyser. The statistics it gives are actually quite decent, though they have several typing errors they really do want to correct. There’s a link to it at the bottom of the front page (ackadia), if you want to try it out and the
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Using Meta tags Meta Tag Overview Mega tags are bits of information inserted into the <head> area of your web pages. Apart from the fairly important <title> tag, which headlines for the browser, the info in this header is mostly for search engines and browsers. The more obvious examples are setting the PICS rating, the
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Javascript Made Simple by Peter McBride Published by Made Simple Books, An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann (ISBN 0-7506-3797-8) Walks you through fifty odd pages of HTML before it gets anywhere near Javascript. If you are delving into Javascript I would hope you have a firm grasp of web editing first myself, but there you go. Grumble
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Visual Start Guide : Fireworks for Windows & Macintosh 3 by Sandee Cohen Published by Peachpit Press (ISBN 0-201-70452-8) Yes, I know Fireworks is at version 4 now, but this book was available so I got it, and as it happens, found it pretty darn good. It’s a well written beginners guide that is
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Visual Start Guide : HTML for the World Wide Web (4th ed) by Elizabeth Castro Publish by Peachpit Press (ISBN 0-201-35493-4) If you want to get to grips with HTML then this is an excellent starting point. After a brief and interesting intro it gradually takes you from the “Hello World!” stage to forms, using
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DON’T MAKE ME THINK. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” by Steve Krug Published by Que Publishing. (ISBN 0-7897-2310-7) This is a no-nonsense approach to web design and makes for very easy reading. Happily a number of his principles I already apply and the rest, well a number of them will be worked
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