by noelhenneman | Dec 29, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
What is the Google Web Font Loader? To understand what the font loader is, you first need to understand using web fonts. With the @font-face CSS rule, you can specify fonts to download for your web page. This CSS rule was first part of the CSS2 recommendation but was...
by noelhenneman | Dec 2, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
As a web page developer, I rely on web browser-based development tools like Firebug. Over the years each browser as improved their built-in tools, so I thought I would write a series of posts looking at features I find useful and comparing that feature in each of the...
by noelhenneman | Nov 18, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
In March 2014, I wrote a post describing a tool I wrote for building and editing HTML tables with an HTML table generator. Since then I have made some updates to the tool that I want to describe. For those that don’t want to read the original article, here is a...
by noelhenneman | Nov 4, 2014 | Technology, Usability
As I have said in other posts, I am also an instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Recently I had a student who wanted to create an ordered list of items in two columns and needed to have the list item numbering continue from the first column to the...
by noelhenneman | Oct 21, 2014 | Technology, Usability
As a web developer I am very aware of the need for usability of web sites. I also teach HTML/CSS as an adjunct professor at Clark College. In the time that I have been teaching HTML/CSS and trying to help students understand these languages, I have become more aware...
by noelhenneman | Oct 14, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
Working for a graphic design firm is interesting. Print designers can be highly-strung individuals when faced with examples of poor typography. Straight quotes that should be curved quotes, poor kerning, fonts not using ligatures—are all examples of things that can...
