Technology
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 2
Chapter 3: Styling Text Chapter 3 about styling text is really obsolete. You can still use almost all tags mentioned in the chapter but many are no longer part of HTML5 and should be replaced by styling with CSS. From that point of view this chapter is not a good guide. A short list below.
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 1
Chapters 1 & 2. Building Blocks of HTML and Starting Your First Web Page Chapter 1 introduces the general syntax of HTML tags. It covers the concept of beginning and closing tags, tag attributes, the difference between block level and inline level tags, urls, absolute and relative, and how to write special symbols on your…
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Understanding URL Encoding: W3Schools Guide
Every now and then I copy a hyperlink and it gives me back these encoded strings. I then have to go looking for what they mean every time. So I wanted to copy a hyperlink to this table I found on W3Schools but for some weird reason I couldn’t copy the hyperlink (kept linking to…
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MagSafe Compatible Quadlock Case
Recently my phone case broke and I needed to get something new. I was stalling a bit because the phone colour does look nicer without a case. At the same time I was looking for a way to attach my phone on my speed pedelec handlebar. I have used Quadlock mounts on some of my…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press)
I read this book in 2003 when the web was still young. I used it to teach myself html (and a little css) so that I could create my own first personal web page. I like to read so it had short summaries of books I had read, plus pictures to share with the family…
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Emojis in WordPress on Mac to creating keyboard key images in CSS
In a recent post I wanted to add a smiley to a blog post and thought I could simply type 🙂 but this didn’t work. According to a search on the internet this should work in some cases but not for me as you can see. Searching a bit more I found other suggestions. One…
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Solis Rice Cooker: Convenient Cooking Made Easy
After contemplating and hesitating for a couple of years whether or not to buy a rice cooker I finally made the jump and bought a small rice cooker from Solis at a local store last weekend and used it for the first time yesterday. Use is super simple, simply add the number of cups of…
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Online Calculators
I have owned many physical calculators over the years and still have around 7 of them at home. I mostly use the HP15C Limited Edition or the HP50G. Whenever I need a calculator and I don’t have one I grab my phone but when I am at home at my desk I will always choose…
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Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Battery Life and Features After One Month
I have now used my Apple Watch Series 11 for about one month and I am quite pleased with it. Added software functionality for running and increased battery life are all positive. I could get one with a 15% price discount and if it lasts as long as my previous Apple Watch then I will…
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Bootstrap 5 Foundations, Daniel Foreman (ISBN 9798749992465, foremanlearning)
Recently I followed a course on Coursera about Front-End Web Development, html and css from Meta. It was a nice refresher but compared to some other courses on similar topics created by universities the course materials are a bit meager: no slides or reading material you can save and easily read again. You have to…
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