October 2024 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python by Maria Litvin and Gary Litvin
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Statistics In Plain English by Timothy C. Urdan
Recent books:
- Practical Machine Learning in R by Fred Nwanganga, Mike Chapple
- Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim
- The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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Category Archives: CSS
What I’ve Been Adding To My Notes
As a busy web developer, I learn something new every day and I take the time to document what I learn in my notes. The following is a list of material I’ve recently added to my notes: A tagged regular … Continue reading
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on Windows XP
This week I decided to be daring and install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on my Windows XP computer at home. I especially like the Developer Tools which are similar to Firebug and Firefox’s Web Developer toolbar. The ruler is … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, JavaScript, Web
Tagged Color Picker, CSS editor, Developer Tools, IE 8 Beta 2, Image Ruler, Internet Explorer 8, JavaScript Errors
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The Improved YouTube Tag Cloud
I have made an improvement to my YouTube Tag Cloud page. While browsing some web design sites I came across a blog post about Beautiful Word Clouds which showed some images of fancy word clouds. They used a fancy font … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Graphics, JavaScript, Web
Tagged jQuery, tag cloud, YouCloud, YouTube
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Web Site Design
One of my immediate goals is to learn how to be a better web site designer so I can stop making excuses when a client seems to be more interested in a fancy web site design rather than the web … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, General
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CSS Hacks And Three Column Layout
As you can see, I have created a new WordPress theme using the web site design template I bought. The template was not intended to be used for WordPress so I had to reslice it in Photoshop to create a … Continue reading
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Semantically Rich Markup
While reading my book on CSS today I came across the best explanation I’ve seen on how to structure your HTML code for the search engines. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion about how to optimize HTML code for … Continue reading
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How To Reference A CSS Class With JavaScript
Some of the CSS topics in my help file were not displaying properly due to a problem with background image urls in CSS. This problem only appears in the Help 2.0 version of help collections for the Microsoft Document Explorer. … Continue reading
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YouComment – A Fancy Video Comment Reader
I have added another page to my collection of “value added services” for YouTube users. This one is an improvement over the YouTube comment system. You can find it on my web site at: http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/YouComment.aspx The comment system is an … Continue reading →