Web design

How to send ‘em to that sa-weet spot

Just had to do a little something that I remembered was really hard to “get” when I learned HTML. This is pretty basic stuff but it’s also very handy when ulterior motives are in control :)

More Header Changes and a New Plugin

I hate a cluttered header and this DeepBlue Theme, while really nice to work with, had both the search function and the RSS subscribe function in the header.

With friends like this, you don’t need enemies

That’s what one of my offline friends said when I showed her an email I’d printed out from an online friend.

The email I showed her was from a friend in an email group I belong to, “Ideas by Post”.

Image alignment problems in WordPress

I was having trouble aligning pictures on 2 of my WordPress blogs. This picture alignment problem really bugged me in my last post because I couldn’t get the text to wrap around that bitty-tiny image of the beautiful Molly.  I couldn’t even get the picture to align to the right using every CSS trick I [...]

How to strike through your text

Larn’in, learning, all the time, all this learning.  It’s enough to make you forget to get Oldtimer’s disease :)
Decided I wanted to make some change in a post over at my Blogger.com weblog by adding a strikethrough or line through some text.  As that’s not something I do everyday, I thought I remembered the HTML [...]

Changing your Header text in WordPress

This weblog is supposed to be about web design so let’s do just a little of that, o.k.? We’ll start with this WordPress blog.  Just the simple stuff.  Remember, I haven’t finished my web design classes yet, lol.
You can’t see it now because I changed it but the text in this blog header used [...]

Do real web designers use DreamWeaver?

As I’ve *mentioned* already, I’m taking a Dreamweaver class on Lynda.com so I can become a web designer.
Well, I guess I’m already technically a web designer, I’ve been building web sites since 2002.  But, I’m not anything you could call “good” at it and I wanna get better, lots better. Hence, ergo, thus.
But, Dreamweaver?  [...]