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  • Archiving files

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    Archiving Files Defined We think of archiving files as a digital tool. The term archive is an old one. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines an archive as a repository or collection especially of information 1. For our purposes, archiving files, or simply an archive, is a collection of digital files.  For a web designer, an…

  • Normal Flow

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    The normal flow of a page is how HTML elements are normally rendered to a page. The browser starts reading (and displaying) content from the top of the page to the bottom. When it encounters  visible HTML elements, there are two primary ways that elements are displayed on a page: block and in-line. Block Elements…

  • Talking to the browser

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    When we code in HTML, CSS, JS, etc. we are communicating to the browser. That’s what we do as web designers. We are telling the browser how to display content. The browser understands many different languages. It understands, HTML, CSS, JavaSript, XML, SVG and others. Each of those languages have their own syntax. For the…