Introduction to WordPress Course Number: CEDA 150 Instructor: Kevin McMillan Number of Sessions 4 Day and Time Sunday / 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Start Date February 29, 2016 Room 121 Course Description An introduction to web design using the WordPress platform, this four-day course offers an in-depth look at the technology and skills needed to […]
One Way to Make a List-Based Horizontal Menu Make an unordered list with links in each list item. Give the UL (contextually) a list-style-type of none Zero the UL’s margin-left and padding-left Give the LIs a width (typically in percentage) Float the LIs Possible Options Set the line-height of the A tag to control the height […]
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How to Validate Your Code To check the validity of your code, you can submit it to https://validator.w3.org/, either by typing in a URL, uploading the file, or even cutting & pasting your document into a form field. However, before you do that you must first add a Document Type Definition, so the software knows […]
HTML is nothing more than a set of instructions on how to display a page of information. For example, if the browser sees <h1>Celine Dion Appreciation Society</h1> in a bit of HTML code, it knows that it should display the phrase Celine Dion Appreciation Society styled as a header (typically, bigger & border, unless this default […]
When the Macintosh came out in 1984, one of its breaks from computing tradition was in its liberal file-naming conventions. While DOS and Windows 3.x files had to follow the so-called eight-dot-three convention (ie myessay.doc), Mac files could have spaces, could include up to 31 characters, and could even neglect to have a file extension. As […]
What is FTP? FTP stands for file transfer protocol. That’s one of the conventions used for transfer of files between computers. Common FTP Programs There are literally hundreds of different FTP programs. For Windows, there’s Filezilla, WS_FTP, CuteFTP, and a whole host of others. Google “free Windows FTP program” and you’ll find a ton at the […]
To check the validity of your code, you can submit it to https://validator.w3.org/, either by typing in a URL, uploading the file, or even cutting & pasting your document into a form field. However, before you do that you must first add a Document Type Definition, so the software knows which flavor of (x)html you are […]
Which Selector to Choose & Why There are three main CSS style types: tags, classes, and IDs. This article will explain the difference between tags, classes, and IDs. Tag Styles I’ve started this discussion with tag styles because they’re the most basic and therefore easiest to understand. When we make a tag style, we are […]