5 Sites to Help With My “Choose A City” Project
Here are five “city-profile” sites that will help me in putting together my own project: 1. Yelp Why I Like? : The site is very user-content rich and extensive, which makes all of the answers and...
View ArticleLocation, location, location
The three articles this week are all helpful resources for understanding how to use CSS positioning in laying out page elements. The first, “Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps”, was a resource that was...
View ArticleLost in the Sauce: Exploring CSS Navs
Looked up a list of different navigation resources for this week, with the majority of them being tutorials for making slick-looking menus or hyperlinks. Pure CSS Horizontal Menu (SEO Friendly) CSS...
View Article5 Competing Sites That I Annihilate From the Face of The Earth
Here are 5 competitive sites I found that deal with the topic of “living cheaply”, the same subject my proposed website will be dealing with. In general, the competition is pretty weak at this point;...
View ArticleSEO Resources for Profit and Success
My three helpful websites dealing with search engine optimization or “findability” : SEO Blog The name says it all – this is a sparse blog which covers SEO topics in simple article format, with most of...
View ArticleWeek One Assignment: 10 Researched Websites
For my site, I’m thinking of doing an online store for self-defense products, with an emphasis on ingenious or concealed self-defense weapons. Think of one of those canes that has a sword in it....
View ArticleWeek 2: Social Networking
The paper makes me think of the skill set I’ll need to showcase when approaching prospective employers, the urgency to immerse myself in the technologies that maximize the potentials of social...
View ArticleMastering SEO
For me, the most important aspect of SEO is simply CONTENT. I’m aware of the multitude of ways you can enhance what you have through other rules of semantic markup, linkage, and keywords, but all of...
View ArticleProgressive Enhancement VS. Passing Classes – The Student’s Dilemma
My reaction to this week’s material on Progressive Enhancement was a feeling of déjà vu: the practices of PE are already very much in line with the style of coding I’ve picked up at Ai, though I’ve...
View ArticleCrossing bridges with HTML5
I did more reading this week on HTML5 and found something I’d like to mention, since it helped me to wrap my head around why this is all exciting stuff. Here’s a quote in an article discussing the...
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