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Tutorial: How to Inspect, Edit, and Save a Web Page
This tutorial from the HTML Fundamentals Class I taught at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, is a guide that will show you how to: View the source code of a web page. How to save a web page to...
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Tutorial: Tools for Evaluating and Testing Web Pages
There are many online tools, web browser extensions, and add-ons to help you evaluate and test web pages. We will be talking about web page validation later, but you can use these tools now to become...
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How to Create Seamless Background or Tiled Patterns
One of the ongoing challenges web designers have is with background images. Background images are found within the background of a web page, specific DIVs, menus and navigation, sidebars, all over the...
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The Basic Structure of a Blog Post
There are many ways to present a post or article on a web page. This tutorial will cover the basic formatting, styles, and structure. Every WordPress Theme handles the basic elements in a post...
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What is a Website Call to Action?
What is a “call to action” on a site? Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most...
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Web Page Annotation and Markup on Live Web Pages
Teaching web publishing with HTML, CSS, WordPress, etc., and working with clients, I long for the ability to just look at a web page or PDF and draw on it. Point out what works, what doesn’t, editing...
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How to Add HTML in a WordPress Blog Post
Most WordPress users spend their blogging life in the Visual Editor, the WYSIWYMG editor. Yes, it is the What You See is What You MIGHT Get editor. While WordPress does what it can to make the Visual...
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This is an Example of a Blockquote
According to Lorelle: We are all born with two ends. One is used for sitting. The other is not. Success in life depends upon which one you use the most. Heads you win. Tails you lose. This is great...
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The Skills You Need for Mobile and Web Programming and Development
“What it’s like to work as a mobile app developer” by TechRepublic is a simple but solid list of what it takes to be a mobile application developer, but also a programmer, web designer, and web...
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What is a Properly Formed Link?
I talk about properly formed links or proper HTML anchor tags in all of my articles, workshops, and classes. Let me explain it in depth here for reference. Links tie the web together, linking one site...
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Web Browser Tips for WordPress, HTML, and Web Design
The following video contains useful web browser tips to help you speed you your browsing, WordPress, and web design work. Basic Web Browser Tips by Lorelle VanFossen for Clark College from Lorelle...
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HTML and CSS Basics Tutorial [Video]
The following video is for Clark College’s HTML Fundamentals Class and covers the basics of HTML and CSS you need to know for building and fixing web pages. It also applies to understanding the...
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HTML and CSS Recourses List
The following was compiled specifically for the Clark College HTML Fundamentals Class but can be useful to WordPress and web design in general. The following are helpful HTML and CSS references and...
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Tutorial: Tidy Your HTML and CSS Code
The following is a tutorial for the HTML Fundamentals Class for Clark College. The information pertains to all web design, development, and WordPress fundamentals in WordPress Theme and Plugin...
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Cleaning Up Your HTML and CSS Code
Teaching HTML Fundamentals at Clark College in Summer Quarter 2012 was a step back into history and a good learning lesson for me about teaching but also about HTML. I’m sharing a lot of the tutorials...
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Lorem Ipsum: Resources for Dummy Content
The granddaddy of all Lorem Ipsum services is Lorem Ipsum – Lipsum generator. Lorem ipsum has been used for hundreds of years to generate dummy content for prototypes, wireframes, and galleys. Created...
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Truly Beautiful HTML Cheat Sheet
Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks is one of the brilliant minds ripping and tearing web design apart and putting it back together so we understand it even better than before. In “What Beautiful HTML Code...
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Links and the Anchor HTML Tag
This is a tutorial from the HTML Fundamentals Class I taught at Clark College in Summer 2012. It applies to HTML and WordPress. There are five basic forms of links on a web page. External Links...
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How to Link to Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, Authors, and Feeds in WordPress
This is a tutorial on how to link to the various features found on a typical WordPress site. Wish to promote an author your site? Need the link to their author pageview? Wish to link to a specific...
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The First Website Revived
The Web as we know it went “live” April 30, 1993. The very first web page and website Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team put online has been brought out of the archives by CERN. The web page and site was...
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