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Video in HTML files
Hosting and streaming video requires a lot of storage and bandwidth. Many shared hosting plans will allow you to host your video. In this instance, you would use the <video> tag to provide that content to your users. However the performance can sometimes be terrible because shared hosting can contain many web sites and are…
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Project plan and storyboard
Project Plan Web sites are about presenting information. All the layout, formatting, whitespace, borders, colors, etc are used to organize, and present information to our audience. We will approach that organization and presentation differently to different audiences; i.e. a 5 yr old learning the A,B, Cs or a CEO learning the basics of web design. The…
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Web Designer vs web designer
As an educator and mentor I try to set the expectations of my students. Part of my job is to focus them so they can get the most benefit from the program and have a realistic view of where they will be upon graduation. One way that I do that to help them understand that…
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Browser coordinate system
Student Question: “I have a question about the box shadows: what if you don’t want the box shadows to appear on the right and bottom of the box? The code that we used (ex. -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black;) doesn’t specify locations. What if, instead, I wanted the shadows to appear on the top and…
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Q&A: Plain text and HTML
Student question: Is plain text the same as txt? I’m still having a problem with it. Answer: Beginning students learning how to code with web standards are sometimes confused about what plain text is and how it applies to HTML. Plain text refers to simple character set, like ASCII, or Unicode. It is the set…
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Basics: Domain names and Web Servers
Question from a student: Do I need a domain name [to upload my files to a server]? Yes and no. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the means by which we transfer files from a client computer to a server. In order to connect to a server you need its address, and login credentials. Every server…
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