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By Bud Kraus
bud@joyofcode.com
Joy Of Code
Creator And Instructor
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Complete Joy Gems Archive
2008
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Kill The CAPTCHAs
If you don't know what they are no doubt you've seen them. They do a great job at what they're designed to do. And that's the problem. -
You're Smarter Than Dreamweaver
If you're leaning on DW as a Cascading Style Sheet authoring tool you ought to think of laying off it. At the end of the day you'll end up with more trouble than it's worth. -
Lessons Learned: The Making Of A Sustainable Web Site (Part 2 Of 2)
More things I learned when re-making this site. -
Lessons Learned: The Making Of A Sustainable Web Site (Part 1 Of 2)
Might be pretty obvious but here are the first two: 1) Set Your Design Priorities At The Start and 2) 2. Build A Perfect Page Template -
A Short Guide To Writing Style Rules
I came up with a way to bring order to chaos. -
Don't Call Them Coders
My attempt to elevate and appreciate the work of those who translate ideas into web pages. -
Useful Comments
What can you do with<!--and-->? A lot. -
The Purpose Of (X)HTML
It has nothing to do with style, appearance, and layout. It has everything to do with giving meaning to content. -
Open Borders
You don't want a silly border around images used for links do you? This is a reminder of how to get rid of them. -
The Future of (X)HTML
New and better tags are on their way. -
The FONTain Of Youth
Just when you thought you'd be stuck using arial, verdana, and georgia forever, I found a few good new fonts for web pages. -
PDFs Are Web Pollution
A rant against using PDFs as if they were a web page. They're not. -
2007 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems
My annual shot to play judge and jury of the best Joy Gems of last year. 2007
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Google Earth Live
What if Google Earth went live and you could see people and things moving about in real time? The Mother Of All Good Web Sites - A Web Page
Make a great web page template for the site you are designing and you've got it made.-
What Are They Looking At?
Usability gurus can track eyeball movements across a web page. Writing Design Specs For A New Web Site
Whether your web site is designed in-house or outsourced, a plan must be committed to paper (or screen) before anything is ever made.-
Good Lookin' Email: Which Way To Go
Creating formatted email is no walk in the park as email clients are even more varied than web browsers. -
The New And Improved Joy Gems Newsletter
After a few years, it was high time to redo the look of Joy Gems. -
The Code To Content Ratio
Less code, more content. That's what you should be striving for in your web page designs. -
Google Analytics
A simple, effective, and amazing way to track visitors to your pages. -
What's To Learn?
When it comes to using Dreamweaver, what is the most important thing you need to know? -
Where To Go For Web Mastering Help When You Get Stuck
Using online forums when all other resources have been taped out. -
What Is It? A Link Or An Underline?
Don't you feel foolish when you click on underlined text thinking it was a link? Here's a remedy for the problem. -
Turning Users Into People
Better quit calling the people who use your web site "users" because they're not users. They're people. -
Dreamweaver Revisited
When Adobe took over Macromedia, what did they do to assist web designers and content creators in creating web pages that follow web page design standards? Not much. -
Just The Opposite Is True
Do you think that by following web page design standards you'll be unable to create visually engaging web sites? Think again!! -
It's The Navigation, Stupid
After you've killed yourself getting visitors to your site, what's the thing that is most likely to drive them away? -
That Bright Line - Part 2 of 2
One of my students also understands the separation of structure from style - and why that is useful. -
That Bright Line - Part 1 of 2
The more I understand web design standards, the easier it gets for me to see the difference between document structure and style. -
What Means Work?
How do you define an hour of work in the Digital Age? -
Font Tester
An online tool that let's you easily test out your ideas about which font to use. -
Serving All The Masters - Part 2 of 2
More of the same as Part 1, but with an example. -
Serving All The Masters - Part 1 of 2
Use web page design standards and you'll make everything - and everyone - happy. -
What It's All About
Web page design is a process by which informed (let us hope) decisions are made. 2006
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2006 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems
I picked out a few of the best Joy Gems of 2006. At least I thought these were the best. -
The Past, Present, and Future Of The Joy Gems Newsletter
My chance to ask JG Readers - "What would you like me to write about?" -
A Little Of This, A Little Of That
A short collection of interesting resources that generally lead to the same place: web design standards. -
Buy These Books
A short selection of great web design books, mostly for newbies, from a Friendly Web Design Instructor. -
White Open Spaces
Frequently forgotten - and most important in web page design - is the space where nothing is said or done. -
A Useful Microsoft Tool (really) Hidden From View (naturally)
What's free, in front of your face, and can FTP files from your (Windows only) computer to a server? -
Tools Of The Trade
What programs do you use to make web sites? Here are a few long trusted and worthy friends. -
Think Before You Code
Don't just dive into making web pages when you start putting your site together. -
The Holy Grail Of Web Page Design: Look Ma' No Tables
To use layout tables or not to use layout tables - that's the question. -
MySpace Is Not My Space
The popular online teen community is teaching kids a few bad things about web design. -
The Funer Side Of Web Design
A few sites that poke fun at web design - and where you can learn a thing or two. -
Where's The Cascade In Cascading Style Sheets? Part 2 of 2
More on how the 3 Style Sheets work together to influence web design. -
Where's The Cascade In Cascading Style Sheets? Part 1 of 2
How the 3 Style Sheets work together to influence web design. -
Are We Ever Going To See IE7.0?
What that 800 lb. Redmond Gorilla is doing to their new browser. -
What Style Is Your Parachute?
Where does one's sense of style in web design come from? -
A Writer's Medium
After you strip away all the fluff of a web page you're left with the naked truth. Sometimes You Have To Hide
Yes Virginia, there is a way to hide your web site from pryin' eyes.Why Bother To Learn XHTML?
The case is made.Fonts Fonts Fonts
A Fontophile takes an overview of something too frequently overlooked.Navigation Tips - Moving About In Infospace
Some things to keep in mind when making a web site. (Don't forget your visitors!!)2005 Year In Review - The Best Of Joy Gems
I picked out a few of the best Joy Gems of 2005 - the ones you liked and so did I.2005
Web Accessibility Toolbar - A Good Friend For Webmasters
Put this baby in your browser to easily evaluate how others - and you - make web pages.Beginners' Guides To Cascading Style Sheets
Some places to start if you're new to CSS - or even if you're not so new.-
The Other Side Of CSS And Web Standards
Other perspectives about Cascading Style Sheets and Web Standards - be practical. -
Color My World With Great Online Tools
A few well worn online color tools for web designers, developers, and content creators. -
So, You Want To Know About HTML Goodies, Huh?
The well known site where you can get HTML tutorials and much more. -
A Well Formed Document Is A Beautiful Thing
This is more important than beauty being in the eye of the beholder. -
Helpful Hints When Writing For The Web
Learn to write in hypertext. -
5 Web Design Principles To Live By
Follow these ideas and you won't go wrong. -
SearchDay, Every Day
A newsletter that's a must for anyone who needs to know everything about search. -
SEO: Giving Your Site A Chance To Be Found
Meet Jill Whalen - a giant in the Search Engine Optimization biz. -
Speed Thrills: A Way To Optimize Your Pages So They'll Download Faster
Meet Andy King - a web page speed freak. -
Check It Out - W3C's HTML And CSS Validators - Part 2 of 2
Couldn't fit it on one page. -
Check It Out - W3C's HTML And CSS Validators - Part 1 of 2
If you don't know what validation is, it's time to learn. -
Image Depots - Where To License Royalty Free Images
Meet Corbis and Getty. Top Style - An Awesome Tool To Help You Make Cascading Style Sheets
Sorry Mac users. The best of the breed was made only for Windows users.-
A Few Thoughts From The Past And Present On Site Development
Some things I wrote years ago still hold up. -
Color Help - Two Tools That Check For Color Blindness And Contrast Issues
Color matters. -
A Method Of Building A Small Web Site - Part 2 of 2
Step 3 - Templating, Step 4 - Building. -
A Method Of Building A Small Web Site - Part 1 of 2
Step 1 - Charting, Step 2 - Wire Framing. -
Listamatic - The Magic Of Working With Lists And Links
One of the classic works of art on how to make list mark-up work in unbelievable ways. -
Tidy GUI: Fixing Up Code And Converting To XHTML
It doesn't look like much, but it's handy to keep around in your web designer tool box. -
CSS Zen Garden - The Power Of CSS
Want some inspiration about what you can do with Cascading Style Sheets? -
Bobby And Cynthia - Two Tools To Test Your Pages For Accessibility
Bobby's been taken over by WebXACT but still doing the job on accessibility testing. -
The History Of The Web
We've come a long way, baby! -
The Granddaddy Of Browser Archives
You won't believe how many web browsers have been developed. -
Things I Hate About The Web - Part 2 of 2
Too much for one page. -
Things I Hate About The Web - Part 1 of 2
Pop ups, underlined text, poor multimedia controls, and more. -
Never Published as a Joy Gems Newsletter
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Old World, New World
I was thinking out loud when I discovered Daoism.