HTML 5 Canvas Tag
A lot of people have been throwing the HTML 5 canvas element <canvas> into their web vocabulary. The website development industry has already been implementing this great tag in a lot of very progressive projects, but rarely in a main stream website yet. The reason being support for HTML 5 is just not available in all browsers, and developers want…
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- March 8, 2012
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How to build a simple web page from scratch – Part 1
If you search the web for “how to build a web page” you’ll be inundated with links to websites that want to sell you their product or are promoting someone else’s product. While we here at Bullfrog Sweatshop absolutely love WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and the like we also know that these applications aren’t always the right fit for everyone.…
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- November 25, 2011
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How to build a simple web page from scratch – Part 2
Ok great, we have an open text editor; what do we do with it? Well, we are going to do a scary thing called programming. We are going to program (type) special words in a specific way into our text editor to make our web page do what we want. I have to admit that most of what I am…
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How to build a simple web page from scratch – Part 3
We last left off by adding a div with an id of “content” to the body of our HTML document. Now we are going to start adding actual content, since we have a good place to put it. Content, with regard to web pages, is essentially anything that the viewer would see; text, pictures, video, etc. and that is why…
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How to build a simple web page from scratch – Part 4
Remember how I said in part 2 that we are going to discuss not 1, but 2 languages of the web in this guide? Well, I did, and that other language is called CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The name doesn’t really imply that it’s a language so what does Cascading Style Sheets mean? I’ll spare you the gory details…
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How to build a simple web page from scratch – Part 5
In this final phase of our tutorial we are going to build on what we’ve done so far. If you’ve been following along then your web page should look like the image below. If it doesn’t I would retrace your steps. This time around I am going to make the final changes to our sample page and let you figure…
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- posted at 11:42 pm
- November 10, 2011
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