by Bob Wallace | Aug 7, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
We use a lot of different HTML editors here at HB Design. Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, Notepad++, and PSPad, to name a few. I personally like PSPad. It is fast and simple, yet has some powerful features like search and replace across files and a...
by Bob Wallace | Jul 31, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
As a web coder, part of my work flow is to validate the HTML and CSS code on my pages. In the past I have used the “Web Developer Toolbar” plugin for Firefox. The plugin is a great tool with a lot of good features, but it always bothered me that I had to...
by Bob Wallace | Jun 12, 2014 | HB Design, Technology, Web Design
Aside from my duties here at HB Design I also teach college courses at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington—including teaching an “Introduction to HTML.” Having taught the course for many years I have been struck by a comparison to learning a foreign...
by Bob Wallace | Jun 5, 2014 | Accessibility, Technology, Web Design
Since CSS 2.1 there have been CSS properties that allow you to insert content before or after a tag’s normal content. This offers some interesting capabilities. But when should you use this feature? What is the content property The CSS content property is a...
by Bob Wallace | Mar 18, 2014 | HB Design, Web Design
Web site developers and web site designers often need a tool to take screen measurements. For years I used Screen Calipers v1.0 by Nico Westerdale. It was very simple to use and had a clean design: Best of all it was free. The only downside was that there...
by Bob Wallace | Jan 28, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
There are many lists of the best plugins for taking WordPress from a blogging platform to a full-blown content management system. Which plugins you use will often depend on the theme you have chosen and site-specific needs. But for someone just starting to work with...
