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  • dot slash notation

    Most of my students that are new to coding are thrown off by the dot slash (./) notation used in filepath values in the href attributes in HTML. I was first exposed to using dots and dot dots back in the late 1980s when I first got my hands on a MS-DOS machine (prior to…

  • YouTube Direct and your uploads

    As reported in Information Week, Google is making it easier for organizations to tap into the Youtube API (Application Program Interface) to provide YouTube functionality on their web sites. For example, the Huffington Post can solicit user generated video (citizen journalism) and use that content in their stories. Since most everyone is familiar with the…

  • Google’s Browser size app

    Talk to any number of web designers and you will get varying responses on how wide the optimum web design should be. Google has provided a nifty tool for viewing your web site under various browser widths. It’s called Browser Size and is produced by Google Labs. The following link will get you there. http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/…