July 31, 2006
Valid code for using Flash animations on the Web
If you've ever tried to include a flash animation in your Web site you may have found that either your movie doesn't show up, your code doesn't validate, or both. Or perhaps you have found that while your movie appears on your page when viewed in Browser X, it does not when viewed in Browser Y. Sometime ago I encountered the same problem and after searching around the Web for various solutions I came across the following. It works in a variety of browsers and is much simpler than the code generated by Flash or Dreamweaver. To use this...
July 21, 2006
Good article about CSS and "Standards"
I saw a good article today and I thought it might be a great launching point for some discussion here... (Please comment if you are reading this blog even occasionally). The important things to take from this article in my opinion are some answers to two points he makes at the end; "What's being done about this" and "Why do you think no one is screaming yet?" More specifically I have a question; what DO we do about this? For some, the answer is "tell them to get a REAL browser... Firefox is free!" For others with a more finely...
July 19, 2006
Using blogs and web pages to raise your professional profile
On Thursday, July 27th, Jeremy Smith and I will be giving a presentation on "Using blogs and web pages to raise your professional profile" as part of UCITE's summer seminar series on dealing with technology. Faculty interested in attending may register online on UCITE's event page. You may also wish to attend this week's session on "Podcasts, Blogs and Wikis," presented by Mace Mentch and Aaron Schaefer. The information they provide will be helpful to our session next week. The slides and handout from my presentation are now available online at http://blog.case.edu/webdev/profile.html ...
July 11, 2006
I'm not going to teach you XHTML/HTML: Homework Review
Last month in my entry about HTML/XHTML I provided a homework assignment for those who wanted to try learning a bit of XHTML. I know some of you are still working on the project, but as I've completed it myself, I'll walk you through some of the elements of the site. If you have not yet started the project, you should go ahead and give it a try before reading this, but I leave it to you to decide what works best for your learning style. My results On the right is a screen capture of the site I...