For those seeking to drop the outdated, you may wish to reference our page: HTMLfixIT list of Depreciated Tags; or visit codehelp for their list of Deprecated HTML tags and alternatives.

Excellent introductory css course called: CSS 101: Cascading Style Sheet Beginner’s Course. Ever notice that out of the millions of pages on the web you wind up at a handful over and over? This is one worth some time.

We sometimes lament the fact that we just don’t seem to have that “magic” that makes a site look good and clean. We often wonder is it an inate talent? Is it something that can be learned? How do you get better at it? This site explains a redesign: Maki. I wonder what I can learn from studying her thought process? Colors inspired by nature, the look simple and clean …

This was so funny, and so “appropriate” that I had to share it with you guys.

Bill gates speaks.

Long live Linux !!! 🙂

Well we’ve gone and done it now! For months, we have been manually adding news to the front page of our site (not to be confused under any stretch of anyone’s imagination with the program FrontPage — that we don’t use … ever). Ironically for months we have likewise (that means Don … while Franki codes) slogging through a blog in an effort to get some content built there, including news with the goal of melding the two shortly … and shortly is now. So without futher ado, here is news.

If you want more from our blog (and there is more there), then jump on over to HTML fixit . com’s random thoughts blog. There you will find tidbits that come up a load short of a tutorial for example about CSS and many other topics.

We have added another user contributed tutorial to htmlfixit.com: Using Microsoft Proprietary Tags to Beat the Broken Box Model The author, Chris Najman runs a London-based, accessible web design company called Najman Web. His site can be found at www.najmanweb.com. He discussed the box model hack avoidance technique of just using Microsoft’s proprietary tags.

We also noticed this site that points out that my bypass is not Tantek’s Box Model Hack: site critical of me
. I didn’t think I represented any set of instructions or that I used that model. In the end I use what seemed the simplest method. Chris might have me beat to be honest.

www.imagetweak.net is a nice little on-line utility you can use to change your images, reduce size, rotate, etc. It seemed to work very well in my tests. It was written by a friend of a prior student of mine, but I resisted any impulse to check out the html coding 🙂