by Bob Wallace | 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 Bob Wallace | 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 Bob Wallace | 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 Bob Wallace | 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 Bob Wallace | 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 Bob Wallace | 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...
