Category Archives: TAFE

Bad Web Design: EnviroDome Photos

The other day in my class, a student asked why we can’t just use the width and height attributes of the img tag to resize photos to make thumbnails.
Here’s a page that shows not.  So these people are selling a (goofy?) product.  Presumably they don’t want to piss me, a potential customer, off.  So they [...]

Unicode Characters for Class Names

Unicode Characters for Class Names | CSS-Tricks.
Cute idea, but I’m not sure how often I’d use it.  I prefer clarity to cleverness.

Get Ready for HTML 5

A List Apart: Articles: Get Ready for HTML 5.

Eric Meyer: Javascript will save us all

Eric Meyer: Javascript will save us all | The Web Life | ZDNet.com.

Making Money with Web Skills

Making Money with Web Skills | CSS-Tricks.

Attention TAFE Students, again!

Ahem…
If you were at Friday’s class, you might recall a large portion of the class (i.e. all of it) was devoted to FTP.  We FTPed using Filezilla, using the built in FTP Client in Frontpage (and I showed you one in Dreamweaver too), and I showed you FTP from the Command prompt.
And then I handed [...]

Attention TAFE Students…

Hey class,
I told you not to come to my website, but all of you don’t listen, do you?  So to help you practice the FTP activity I told you about on Friday, I created an FTP account for you.
Now, the address is *********, the username is *********, and the password is ******.
(These have been edited [...]