Hi gang. Since I started this polite uproar over how to learn the right way to compose HTML, XML, CSS, etc. ...
..thanks to all of the many responders and descriptors I've received. Can barely keep up with it all. All I have currently is Thomas Powell's amazing compendium WEB DESIGN: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE, Second Edition, from Osbourne/McGraw Hill, which contains design and usability guidelines, plus HTML sprinkled liberally throughout, but not step by step. Is his book HTML: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE any good? or is it not current with web standards? When I first read this book way back when, after Jakob Nielsen's works, I ignored the HTML, since I didn't plan to build any sites. I was just interested in the design and usability principles in more technical detail than Nielsen, plus some of the practical considerations and problems encountered by web designers. Anyway, I have much to ponder and explore. [I'm also interested theoretically in bizarre artistic web design innovations. All I know is John Maeda and his speculations about round web sites and circular oscilloscope monitors. Verging into sci-fi, oh well.] I'm going to put up a Disposable Blog Site, full of whatever, just to test a few widgets, web games, adding code from Technorati and Alexa, etc., then delete the blog when I'm done experimenting, and put successful items into my real blog sites, which are acting more as business cards/resumes/writing sample files for me. I'm so uninformed, I don't know exactly where to paste code into the main body of my blog site template code. Technorati says paste it where your RSS feeds and such are, but I don't yet have those things. Afraid if I put it in the wrong place, it'll vanish down the digital toilet. Steven Streight STREIGHT SITE SYSTEMS Web Usability Analysis, Credibility Assessment & Content Writing STREIGHT TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS Direct Marketing and Online Writing Services mailto: astreight at msn dot com Usability Information Site: http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com Web User Research Center: http://www.webwhispers.blogspot.com ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
