Web Design

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- Latest free CSH Validator 8.04 released -

"There aren't many freeware programs out there these days that are this well done and useful."
- Tim Matheson, CSE HTML Validator User

"I downloaded CSE HTML Validator Lite about two months ago and have used it ever since. It's absolutely delightful to use - and has options for everything you can think of (and a lot that you can't!). But in spite of the options, it can be used by amateurs like myself with the default values only. I have tried several other validators before and none comes near it for ease of use, flexibility, and thorough reliability. When I develop to the stage of needing the even more powerful edition, I won't bother to look elsewhere, as I'm confident this product will be of the highest standard also. Well done, and thanks."
- Phil Taylor, CSE HTML Validator User

"I just downloaded the free version and used it immediately. Already I can't say enough about this product! As soon as I have a few bucks ahead I absolutely will be upgrading, and recommending CSE HTML Validator products to everyone I know who makes web pages."
- Connie Srnka, CSE HTML Validator User

In addition to checking HTML syntax, CSE HTML Validator Lite can also:

Check spelling.
Quickly change all tags and attributes to lowercase.
Automatically place quotation marks around all attribute values.
Strip HTML tags from HTML documents, leaving only the text.
Quickly change all the headers and/or footers of every page of your web site when you design your pages using the template tool.

If you want to automatically fix HTML problems and/or check CSS, links, and accessibility, then download CSE HTML Validator Professional Trial.

Recent Web Design SIG activities:

Report for meeting May 17th 2008

We discussed web security and the benefits of using the PCUser Group moderated Forum rather than an open blog for communication between sig members. We suggest all members register to use the Forum.

We discussed web hosting because our current site is going to be closed shortly. Consequently we began redesigning a new Fotopage Design site. We will continue at our next meeting on Saturday 21st June.
See you there.

Regards Robert

Report for meeting March 2008

Seven members attended the meeting. James Gaudry sent his apologies. Christina sent her apologies.

When we arrived today we found our meeting room had been let to someone else. The whole floor was unavailable. We were very impressed by the notification we received. We subsequently held our meeting in the corridor of the third floor.

We then spent a lot of time taking out a soft bullet in the text in the MWRPA site. A fun exercise.

The new projector is extremely good, we were very impressed.

The Netobjects Fusion Essentials is available for free download here: http://www.netobjects.com/html/essentials_download.html

The next meeting is on Saturday April 19th.

See you there,
Robert

Report meeting February 2008

Once again we had a good roll up.
Just for a change this meeting we had a look at my video of a wild life trip to Sabah Borneo. Next meeting the Caribbean.
We also looked at how to set up cascading style sheets.

Also we will look to get a form working for the MWRPA site.

The next meeting is 15th March.
See you there.

Regards,
Robert

Report for meeting January 2008

Our usual team arrived this month where we continued looking at uploading the MWRPA site. After much anguish and discussion we found our problems were caused by the way FTP Commander operates. We also had problems using NOF FTP so we installed the free Core FTP program. This seemed to have a better user interface. We were then able to get everything working as it should. We also set up Core FTP to upload our own sig website.

Next meeting is Saturday February 16th 2008.
At the next meeting we will update the MWRPA site after user feedback.
See you there.

Robert

Report for Meeting 17 November 2007

We looked for a new version of AVG antivirus and mentioned www.filehippo.com where all sorts of freeware programs can be found.

We then tried to log on to the MWRPA site host server, without any success. Will need to get contact details.

Next we looked at many new site styles for the MWRPA site. We chose to use "Virtual City". This made a much improved site. We modified the front page and created the meetings page.

Next month we will continue to build the site by importing data from the news letter.

The next meeting will be on Saturday December 15 - 2pm see you there.

Robert

Report for meeting October 20, 2007

We installed NetObjects Fusion 9 then cleaned up a lot of old files from our hard drives.

We used Photoshop to update our latest member photos and upgraded our site front page.

From now we are going to use Fusion Version 9 as our standard program.

At our November meeting we will do more work on the Meadowbank West Ryde Progress Association site which has already been upgraded to ver 9.

The November meeting is on Saturday the 17 November.
See you there.

Robert

HTML Element Hierarchy

Any HTML page comprises a number of (perhaps a large number of) elements - headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on. Often, developers use the term "tag" to refer to an element, making reference for example to "the p tag". But the tag is simply the  part of the element. The whole construction of This is the content of the paragraph is in fact the  element (as we refer to it in this guide). What many web developers don't realize (largely because it wasn't particularly important until style sheets came along) is that every element is contained by another element, and may itself contain other elements. The technical term for this is the containment hierarchy of a web page.

At the top of the containment hierarchy is the <html> element of the page. Every other element on a web page is contained within the <html> element, or one of the elements contained within it, and so on. Similarly, many elements will be contained in paragraphs, while paragraphs are contained in the <body>.

Graphically, we can understand it like this.

The Containment Hierarchy With cascading style sheets, elements often (and with CSS2 can always be forced to) inherit properties from the elements which contain them (otherwise known as their parent elements). This means that if you give the body of the page certain properties (for example font and color) then every element within the page will inherit these properties- there is no need to set the font and color again for each element, such as list items or paragraphs.

You can always override the inheritance however. By assigning a property to an element, you override the inherited property.

Source:Westciv.com