Rodent Regatta

Coming from a background free of programming and web development responsibilities, learning HTML, XHTML, CSS, web standards and a host of other web-based technologies has proven quite the challenge.

The biggest challenge is trying to find out how to learn. Plenty of books spend their early pages teaching you what once was done. Then, seventy five to one hundred pages into the book, they say, ”forget all we’ve been saying.” They then dive into CSS and sometimes web standards.

Lately, I’ve been using the products and tutorials offered by Westciv. Here’s another introductory CSS tutorial that I’ll go through early this week.

For those interested only in displaying some information on the web, standards are a bother. These folks have not yet begun to think about accessibility, lower costs of bandwidth, quicker download times and easier site changes.

If you share my interest in designing and coding sites for more than expedience, take a look at this free XHTML course.

You may recall that an unscientific poll was taken to determine which editors are most popular. For those using TopStyle Pro, here’s some good news about future work to be done to improve the product.

The Movable Type Personal Publishing System logo is shown in Mena Trott’s latest entry. MT 3.0 is described as having extensibility enhancements to the platform on which plugins and new features can be added. Point releases (3.x and beyond) will provide the new features required in a ”power tool.” It’s probably time to start learning a lot more about how plugins to Movable Type really work, conflict and get along with each other. I’ve only seen one other software tool in the last 24 months that I want to learn as much about as Movable Type.

Shaun Inman wants to write a virus that switches everyone to a modern browser.