How to invoke a web server script, how hard is this? My notes …
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Web Charts
How can I make dynamic charts on a web page? Here are my notes and links ….
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Dynamic Styles in HTML
I was working with Stylish and came across and article that <DIV> tags should be avoided. Stylish uses IDs and CLASSes to change the look & feel Why avoid these elements? A second thought is how can one use buttons to change the look and feel of a page by applying different styles? Do you…
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Jamstack
I am advised that this is the really hot tool set to build websites with. Here are my notes.
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Static page web sites
I came across a video that suggested using google drive as a web hosting solution. This seemed quite a neat idea. I need to examine if I lose anything by not having a web server in-front of it, probably not; there is one which is run and configured by Google. It would however require a…
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Making a web site using Umbraco
I am involved in an Umbraco project, we have decided that adoption is better than authorship, here are some themes we found.
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Local Government Web Sites
As part of my research into Lewisham’s Democracy Review I needed to look at web site design, UX/UI and usability because theirs is very poor. Here’s what I found about being good.
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Donating via Pay Pal
This page is not a request for donations; I am considering how to set up Pay Pal collections for others. This seems easier than one might expect. A three stage process mainly managed by Pay Pal. Open a non-profit account, use pay pal’s tools to generate the HTML, include it in your web page. Bosh!…
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New looks for web sites
Good web design is changing again. Is it the influence of the growth of mobile devices? It’s certainly influenced my adoption of Nulis on the blog. They are picture rich, with lots of white space, borderless and short columns (often implementing lists) and strong rows! (They also tend to go to the second page by…
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Triptrop
Travelling in NYC See http://www.triptropnyc.com/ They say “extraordinarily pretty subway maps from anywhere to everywhere in new york city”.
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Optimising HTML for Mobile Devices
Of course, because I am using wordpress, I have access to the wptouch plugin, which now looks great when used with ‘featured pictures’.
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Small screen HTML runes
Optimising HTML for small screens I have been interested in optimising HTML for small screens and/or using CSS as the vehicle. This has been driven by my personal publication properties and started at Sun with the then Sun Blog. I marked it as deprecated in 2020.
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