Useful links: Responsive elements, Zeldman on design, web history
Responsive elements is a breakthrough idea. Check it out. You must listen to this interview with Jeffrey Zeldman: Why Designers Need to Craft Words, Not Pixels. Here’s a wonderful resource for...
View ArticleWhat A-B Testing Is and Why You Should Do It
When you are running a business, it is important to test your advertising and marketing strategy so that you can develop a better method of reaching your target audience. The primary goal of marketing...
View ArticleUseful Links: OpenAIR, Queer History, Lucidpress
If you’ve never been on a team designing a site in one of Knowbilities OpenAIR events, it’s a great experience. You learn a lot about accessibility and have a good time. They still need 3 teams for...
View ArticleHow to Get Minority Girls Psyched about Programming (Video)
Black Girls Code, lead by Kimberly Bryant, is an awesome program. Here’s a look at what they do. © vdebolt for Web Teacher, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | The post How to Get Minority Girls Psyched...
View ArticleCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle – Computerphile (Video)
What exactly is UTF-8? I’m always telling students to choose it as the character encoding for their HTML documents. It turns out that representing symbols, characters and letters that are used...
View ArticleOnline seminar: Introduction to ARIA
On March 27 I’ll be leading an online seminar for ADA Online Learning. The topic is Introduction to ARIA. If you’d like to join the seminar, information about the schedule, registration and more is...
View ArticleGrace Hopper: The Queen of Code
Grace Hopper: The Queen of Code is a documentary about Grace Hopper. It’s the latest film in FiveThirtyEight’s Signals series. This is a short film and would be excellent to show students in a...
View ArticleUse our code for free enrollment in the Udemy “Web Design from the Ground Up”...
This is a $98 class at Udemy. The first 50 people to sign up for the Web Design from the Ground Up course at Udemy using the special code webteacher.ws will receive access to the class absolutely free....
View ArticleResponsive Images (Video)
Two excellent videos from Akamai Technologies are available explaining how to code for responsive images. The first is written by Mat Marquis, the second by Yoav Weiss. Both films go quickly and bear...
View ArticleFor Middle and High School Girl Coders: YouTube Series “My Code”
Girls Who Code, the national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology, today released “My Code,” a YouTube series about learning how to code from the perspective of four...
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