Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/15/2016 11:38 AM, Jim Garrison wrote: > On 4/15/2016 3:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I don't have personal knowledge of any books. However two sites >> presenting themselves as "tutorials" are >> http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://htmldog.com/ . Both appear >> technically competent. Their

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-16 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 04/15/2016 09:50 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > The second suggestion is to look at Twitter Bootstrap. Its fairly > popular with web devs for making things fairly quickly. Again, you’ll > have to know HTML/CSS/JS. I’ve not done anything from scratch with > bootstrap, but I have played with some t

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Louis Kowolowski wrote: It used to be that you could get by with just knowledge of HTML, but today, its not really the case any more. As many others have said, this is very true -- esp. if you want your site to look decent on phones, laptops, desktops, and large displays.

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Louis Kowolowski
On Apr 15, 2016, at 3:14 PM, t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: > > Hi Louis. > > Simple static webpages -- basically extended brochures. These are the > sites that I'm currently responsible for: > > www.wescottdesign.com > www.atomiczombieworkshop.com > www.funflyers.org > > (Note that most of th

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread tim
On 2016-04-15 07:05, Louis Kowolowski wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Joe Shisei Niski >> wrote: >> >> >> On 04/14/2016 12:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: >>> All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at >>> me >>> about formatting. >>> >>> At this point I'm pretty s

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Paul Mullen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:31:42PM -0700, Tim Wescott wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book for web page design that'll bring > me up to date? I've got several sites that I take care of that I'd > like to start updating. I'm a fan of "HTML & CSS", by Jon Duckett. http://www.htmlandcssbook.co

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Ronald Chmara
Warning: Some of this is a bit rant-ish from watching the last 25 years of web silliness unfold On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Jim Garrison wrote: > As to the overall topic of "HTML Design", nowadays HTML is only a > small piece of the puzzle. HTML as originally conceived was a > mishmash

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016, Jim Garrison wrote: > As to the overall topic of "HTML Design", nowadays HTML is only a small > piece of the puzzle. HTML as originally conceived was a mishmash of both > content structure and presentation. Modern web design strives to separate > content from presentation by u

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Jim Garrison
On 4/15/2016 3:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I don't have personal knowledge of any books. However two sites > presenting themselves as "tutorials" are > http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://htmldog.com/ . Both appear > technically competent. Their presentational styles are very > different. A

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Louis Kowolowski
> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > > > On 04/14/2016 12:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: >> All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me >> about formatting. >> >> At this point I'm pretty sure that I should be using HTML 5.0 -- but I'm >> not sure. >>

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 4/14/2016 2:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me > about formatting. > > At this point I'm pretty sure that I should be using HTML 5.0 -- but I'm > not sure. > > Can anyone recommend a good book for web page design that'll bring me

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-14 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 04/14/2016 12:31 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: > All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me > about formatting. > > At this point I'm pretty sure that I should be using HTML 5.0 -- but I'm > not sure. > > Can anyone recommend a good book for web page design that'll bring

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Tim Wescott wrote: > All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me > about formatting. Tim, I use xhtml-1.0 strict on my web pages. There are a couple of changes in the meta tags that you'll want to make. Go to google's site verification page an

[PLUG] Slightly OT: Good HTML design books

2016-04-14 Thread Tim Wescott
All my web pages are pre-cellphone, and Google has already bitched at me about formatting. At this point I'm pretty sure that I should be using HTML 5.0 -- but I'm not sure. Can anyone recommend a good book for web page design that'll bring me up to date? I've got several sites that I take care