June 18, 2012
The fine folks at Mozilla have released a nifty tool called thimble which allows you to learn and experiment with HTML and CSS in a very user-friendly way. You get a code editor on the left side of your screen and a live preview on the right. Nifty! https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/ If you want to just mess around,… Read More
October 26, 2011
There have been two updates to the default theme over the past 24 hours, both of which should enhance the user experience quite significantly. The first addition is the ability to display your blog name and subtitle over the main header image, such as is what you see with my own blog. Note that you… Read More
April 19, 2011
In light of recent support questions, I’ve added two new entries to our web publishing troubleshooting page. Highlights include: iWeb Cannot Directly Upload to public_html/student_html Folders Apple iWeb does not properly handle symbolic links and cannot directly upload to your public_html or student_html folder. This is actually an issue I’ve been tackling with for a… Read More
March 11, 2011
At a UW Web Council meeting yesterday, one of the presenters mentioned in passing about how they don’t allow any of their site editors to use red text on a web page. This is a fairly common rule that I had forgotten about, so I thought it would be worth sharing. If you need to use red… Read More
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