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August 31, 2006
I'm not going to teach you CSS: Lesson 2
In our first lesson on CSS, I introduced you to the concept, gave you a new homework assignment and showed you an example of a simple site—with and without its accompanying stylesheet. For that example I used the Wolf site I had built as part of our first homework assignment for learning XHTML/HTML. Today I am going to show you how I added the styles to that site. Incorporating a stylesheet into your site involves two basic steps Create a stylesheet file: Using a plain text editor, such as Notepad or Textedit, open a new file and save it...
WordNerds Discussion Group
Tuesday's Case Daily announcement about the WordNerds listserv and discussion group brought in a number of inquiries. In order to offer more information to those of you who are interested, I thought I would share the following messages, as provided by core members of the group. About WordNerds Formally known as the Case Writers' and Editors' Forum, we are a group of Case staff members who present the messages of the university to internal and external audiences. We are communications, marketing, public relations, Web, and news and information specialists who spend a lot of time thinking, writing, and editing. Message...
August 21, 2006
New "About Us" Page on Webdev Blog
In case you haven't found it accidentally by yourself... we'd like to let you know that we have added an 'About Us' page to the Web Development Blog. We each wrote a brief bio, which should serve to tell anyone who comes to the site just a little bit more about our backgrounds. Follow the link on our left navbar to read more. We hope you like it! Kevin & Heidi...
August 09, 2006
Avoid squishy head syndrome: proper techniques for sizing and cropping images
Heidi's head hasbeen squishedKevin's head is normal While I may never regain the finely sculpted cheekbones of my college years, the photo on the above right is not of me after a bad facelift. It's just a photo of me suffering from squishy head syndrome. I'm sure you've seen other examples. Perhaps you've been to the staff directory page for department X. It's a useful page with names, titles and contact information for everyone in the department. The only problem is that some of the people look a bit funny. Either their photos have been squished to the wrong proportions...
August 03, 2006
I'm not going to teach you CSS: Lesson 1
As a follow-up to the I'm not going to teach you XHTML/HTML and homework review entries, today I'll introduce you to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If you are working on a Case site, you will have noticed that each set of templates comes with its own set of style sheets that determine the color scheme, fonts, etc. In most cases you can just leave these alone, but there may be times when you want to do something special such as adding colored borders to a table, or creating a red (cranberry) alert headline to emphasize something important. To do...