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Great tutorials for the newbie web designer

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Quackit teaches beginners how to create websites. They start off slowly, teaching you the basics such as HTML and CSS. Then they introduce you to more advanced topics so that you can add more features to your website.

It is similar to my own site, but has many more tutorials on css coding, xml, and

  • JavaScript Tutorial
    Learn how to add functionality and interactivity to your web pages.
  • ColdFusion Tutorial
    ColdFusion is a server-side programming/scripting environment used to build dynamic websites.
  • PHP Tutorial
    This PHP Tutorial demonstrates just how easy it is to create dynamic websites using PHP.
  • VBScript Tutorial
    This tutorial teaches you VBScript from the ground up – starting with the basics.

Database

  • Database Tutorial
    Learn the fundamentals of databases and database management systems.
  • SQL Tutorial
    Covers everything you need to know to get started in database programming using SQL.
  • SQL Server Tutorial
    Provides an overview of SQL Server – Microsoft’s enterprise database management system.
  • Microsoft Access Tutorial
    Use Microsoft Access to perform many typical database tasks such as creating databases, tables, queries, and more.
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Everything the web designer needs

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I came across a web site which performs a similar function to my own but lists so many more things. It’s a simple site design with links under categories such as web design, web site maintenance, tutorials, css generators, colours, affiliates, web site validation and much much more.

It’s called agency tool

Great site even though it is in competition to mine.

Blogging is good for you

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I read in the Green Guide, The Age, July 3, 2008, that research done recently on social networkers and bloggers altered the view of some that bloggers are lonely and desperate people.

Blogging began in 1998 and I couldn’t tell you how many blogs there are out there now. I played around a bit on blogger.com, but didn’t really get into blogging seriously until I got bored with my site. Things were changing so rapidly in the web design world with XHTML and css becoming a necessity as well as PHP, that my site was becoming outdated and I couldn’t keep up with it, because every time something new came up, I’d have to change every page. There is still some useful stuff there by the way, but I now prefer blogging.

I tried another CMS program first for my tennis site, but then decided to up me fees with my host and go for a self-hosted word press blog. Now that required a steep learning curve just in itself.

As you would know if you follow my blog, I turned 60 this year and started up at the gym. But still, I needed intellectual stimulation. Yes I do the sudoku every day, code words, crosswords, killer sudoku and keep up with current events, but I needed more. Well, it seems blogging does just that for bloggers.

Some studies say that blogging fosters critical thinking and feelings of connection and that bloggers feel better about their situation.

US researchers say blogging makes us better thinkers and that blogging can be a powerful promotor of creative, intuitive and associational thinking.

Swinburne University in Melbourne did a study of bloggers and one of their cases said it made her saner. Another said that writing helped her through mental dilemmas as well as discussing them online. My post on Bill Henson’s photography has certainly done that.

Swinburne gives us examples of some of the bloggers’ blogs they interviewed. They are mostly Melbourne bloggers which is my city.

Link

The Brain of a Blogger

Enjoy!

Using CSS to make rounded corners

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I have been fiddling around with the css file which comes with my cutline theme. I felt it was too grey and black. The trouble is that it’s a lot of trial and error. I still have a problem in that links within a post do not show up as a link.

CSS Rounded Corners
By Courtnie Croft

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The HTML

<b class=”b1″></b><b class=”b2″></b><b class=”b3″></b><b class=”b4″></b>
<div class=”content”>
<div>content here</div>
</div>
<b class=”b4″></b><b class=”b3″></b><b class=”b2″></b><b class=”b1″></b>

Here is the CSS

.b1, .b2, .b3, .b4 {font-size:1px; overflow:hidden; display:block;}
.b1 {height:1px; background:#000; margin:0 5px;}
.b2 {height:1px; background:#000; margin:0 3px;}
.b3 {height:1px; background:#000; margin:0 2px;}
.b4 {height:2px; background:#000; margin:0 1px;}
.content {background: #000;}
.content div {margin-left: 5px; color: #FFF;}

The CSS with border

.b1, .b2, .b3, .b4{font-size:1px; overflow:hidden; display:block;}
.b1 {height:1px; background:#FF5B0A; margin:0 5px;}
.b2 {height:1px; background:#000; border-right:2px solid #FF5B0A;
border-left:2px solid #FF5B0A; margin:0 3px;}
.b3 {height:1px; background:#000; border-right:1px solid #FF5B0A;
border-left:1px solid #FF5B0A; margin:0 2px;}
.b4 {height:2px; background:#000; border-right:1px solid #FF5B0A;
border-left:1px solid #FF5B0A; margin:0 1px;}
.content {background: #000; border-right:1px solid #FF5B0A;
border-left:1px solid #FF5B0A;}
.content div {margin-left: 5px; color: #FFF;}