Everyone's Talking about Web Design: Recent Episodes
Myra Rhodes
Hi, I’m the founder of Everyone's E-Learning Inc., a web based e-learning site. My premier course offerings are Dreamweaver CS6 Levels One and Two. If you need to learn how to create and/or maintain a web site, this is the place for you. Find out more at http://www.everyones.com. If you are involved in web design or online marketing and you might like to tell the world about your experiences or expertise, please click the 'send message' link below (and to the right - under profile) and we'll set it up!
Today I'll chat With CSS Junkie - 'Big John' Gallant all about getting started with Cascading Style Sheets. Do you know... - the difference between a tag attribute and a CSS style? -what the '!important' keyword does to a declaration? - what CSS 'pseudo-classes' are, and why they're different from regular classes? - what the 'child' and 'sibling' combinators are? - what happens when two CSS rules attempt to apply different values to the same property of an element, and why? - how the weighting system of CSS actually works? If you answered "No" to most of these questions, then this radio show and John's 'Explaining the Cascade' webinar are for you! To sign up for the webinar please go to: http://everyones.com/webinar/cssexplainingthecascade
This is the the playback of the audio portion of the Dreamweaver CS4 Course (Chapter 3) broadcast, recorded Tuesday Nov 23, 2010.
Chapter 3 – Adding Browsers & Working with Images Chapter 3 is about working with images. You will learn to preview your documents using Live View and using various browsers. You will add additional browsers to the Preview-in-a-Browser button. You will insert images into HTML pages and you will experience the benefit of working with Smart Objects, which allow you to take advantages of the photo editing capabilities of Photoshop, right from the Dreamweaver document window! You will also learn about using image placeholders for times when the graphics department is not completely in step with the design team.
The slides (if you care to follow along) are at: http://www.everyones.com/webinar/FreeDWCourse_Chap3.pdf
For Chapters 2 & 3 recordings find the clues on the Facebook page.
Why GIF files are not really limited to 256 colors: http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html For additional links mentioned in this show, see the Show Notes on this page.
This is the live audio portion of the Free Dreamweaver CS4 Course (Chapter 2) broadcast.
Chapter Two – Some Basic HTML Document.
In this chapter you will get to know how to change the appearance of basic HTML elements such as headings and paragraphs. You’ll become familiar with the quick keys for navigating the document window and you will experience the difference between block and inline elements. You will also learn about ordered and unordered lists. This chapter lays the groundwork for later (Level Two) when using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to style CSS Standards compliant documents.
For a full description of the entire course, please take a look here.
The slides (if you care to follow along) are at http://www.everyones.com/webinar/FreeDWCourse_Chap2.pdf
The Treasure Hunt: http://everyones.com/TreasureHunt/Web-Design-Internet-Treasure-Hunt To purchase the courseat the reduced price: www.everyones.com/dreamweaver/WebinarParticipantsPurchasePage
If you wish to see the recording of Chapter One of the live webinar it is availiable at: http://everyones.com/TreasureHunt/Free-Dreamweaver-Course-Level1-Chapter-1-Recording
And the facebook page for the clues to the next recording is at http://www.facebook.com/EveryonesElearning
This is the live audio portion of the Free Dreamweaver CS4 Course (Chapter 1) broadcast.
Chapter One – Getting Started.
In this chapter we will take a tour of the Dreamweaver CS4/5 interface. We will create three web sites that you will work with throughout the course. Once the sites are created, you will save an index.html file to the local root of each site. If you’re not sure what a local root or an index file is now, you will by the end of this show. And you'll learn some best practices and how to best organize your site from the get go!
For a full description of the entire course, please take a look here.
The slides (if you care to follow along) are at http://www.everyones.com/webinar/FreeDWCourse_Chap1.pdf
The Treasure Hunt: http://everyones.com/TreasureHunt/Web-Design-Internet-Treasure-Hunt To purchase the courseat the reduced price: www.everyones.com/dreamweaver/WebinarParticipantsPurchasePage
If you wish to see the recording of Chapter One of the live webinar it is availiable at: http://everyones.com/TreasureHunt/Free-Dreamweaver-Course-Level1-Chapter-1-Recording
And the facebook page for the clues to the next recording is at http://www.facebook.com/EveryonesElearning
Today's show is not so much about the technical aspects of how to design a web site, as it is about what one woman is doing to reach out, in particular to other women who are not quite as fortunate as she has been. Sue-Ann MacCara has started up a web site called Each One Reach One. Sue-Ann is from South Africa, a place with very distinct divisions between classes of people. While she was fortunate enough to be born into the privileged class of her society, she never felt quite right about it. And she intends on doing something to improve the situation for others and when you hear wh
So Mr. BD did not have any luck getting connected with Blog Talk Radio on our first try. But he was able to join in on the chat (you can see the chat by clicking the green ‘chat now’ bubble) and we decided to give it another try. The show was not without its challenges and there is some choppy audio in there. However, if you’re a budding entrepreneur from Brunei or anywhere else for that matter, I think you’ll enjoy our second try with mystery blogger, Mr. BD!
www.bruneiandollar.co.cc is a place for franchisors, investors and entrepreneurs. The webmaster, Bruneian Dollar, also known as Mr. BD or B-Dollar is more than a web designer. He is also graphic designer and entrepreneur. Mr B.D. provides opportunities to budding entrepreneurs who wish to start up a business, to find work and create their own money making machine. If you’re looking to make money with an online business, B-Dollar's site is a great place for ideas, insights and advice. Tune in here at “Everyone’s Talking about Web Design” August 11th at 7am PDT and we’ll help get your morning (or evening - 10:00pm - if you’re tuning in from Brunei) off to a profitable start!
It's the second day of the Voices that Matter Web Design conference and Everyone's E-Learning is on site along with Webvanta, Fig Leaf software and Creative Edge.
If you tuned into my last conversation with Big John Gallant, then you are familiar with some of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) problems encountered by web designers. In that episode, John gave some very handy tips on how to avoid some of the most common CSS pitfalls. For more details you can visit my blog or John's website, positioniseverything.net.
I am happy to announce that John has agreed to take another break from his busy schedule and join me here on Everyone’s Talking about Web Design to discuss the use of PNG files, to help you understand and avoid the problems associated with Internet Explorer (IE) ‘quirks’ mode and how best to plan for site wide font sizing.
Here are some links that John has provided to go along with today's show:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Font_Size http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Using_Font_Size http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=e2f258c46d285fee http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Rendering_Mode http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnginfo.htm
If you'd like to see a written summary of the interview, please visit my blog at http://www.everyones.com/_blog/Web_Design_and_your_Online_Business
You may be able to count on one hand the number of people who can come close to having as good an understanding of CSS (cascading style sheets) and the peculiar things that can go wrong with a web page when it is tested in Internet Explorer, (particularly IE6). John Gallant (aka CSS Junkie and Big John) is responsible for the contents of the site Position is Everything (PIE). If you have followed all the rules in the design of your web page and it does some strange things in IE, likely the answer to your troubles is on PIE.
In this interview, John Gallant discusses some of the most common problems that people encounter with CSS and how you can avoid the pitfalls and instead create great looking pages for your site, regardless of the browser that they are viewed in. If you'd like to have a printable copy of this interview, please visit Myra's blog at http://www.everyones.com/_blog/Web_Design_and_your_Online_Business/.
There's truly is an "art" to engagement for online marketing - in this live interview, we'll reveal how to develop an effective engagement strategy. This critical, and often overlooked step will show you how to apply inbound marketing principles and leverage your website, search engines, blogs, newsletters, social media and other tools and resources to:
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Increase Conversion Rates
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Intrigue Website Visitors to Want to Know More
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Provide the Right Information at the Right Time
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Strengthen Relationships With Clients & Prospects
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Develop A Two Way Communication With Your Audience
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Standout From Your Competitors
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Dramatically Increase Sales
Join me with guest Beverly Garvin, the CEO of www.UrbanInteract.com right here on Blog Talk Radio!
This show is the second in a series featuring guest Beverly Garvin, the CEO of www.UrbanInteract.com. Beverly develops unique websites and online marketing strategies that intrigue, inform and inspire website visitors to engage with your brand to deliver profitable, long-term results. This will be a two part interview with Beverly to discuss “the 7 laws of Attraction for Online Marketing” to help you learn how to attract people who are looking for the products and services your company provides.
On this show, featured guest, Beverly Garvin, the CEO of www.UrbanInteract.com talks about the first two laws of attraction for online marketing. Beverly develops unique websites and online marketing strategies that intrigue, inform and inspire website visitors to engage with your brand to deliver profitable, long-term results. This will be a two part interview with Beverly to help you learn how to attract people who are looking for the products and services your company provides.
Everyone’s premier show, features professional web designer Chris Leckie. Chris talks about the most important considerations when planning a web site, the common mistakes that most people make with web design and some of the challenges that a web designer faces when working with customers. Chris has a wealth of experience and useful tips including an interesting little extension for Dreamweaver for converting your site design for mobile applications. The URL that Chris recommends is for the Nokia Web Runtime v2.0 Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver and here's a shortened url: http://bit.ly/7wS5i.