Back To School 2009!

It is the end of day one of the 2009–2010 school year. I’m looking forward to a great year.

Mouse—Not The Clicking Kind!

Apple Safari 4 Beta

Apple just released Safari 4 Beta into the wild. It seems like Apple might be following others in this release.

• Top Sites looks like Opera’s Speed Dial
• Tabs on Top looks like Google’s Chrome and kind of like Opera
• Developer Tools is kind of like Developer Tools (extension in Firefox).

Other than that, the new features seem to be better system integration. Download it an try it out. Let me know what you think—especially if you are on a Windows machine. The Javascript engine is supposed to be really fast!

Dreamweaver CS3 Untitled Style Sheet Bug

There is a bug in Dreamweaver CS3 when creating external style sheets (which—by the way—you should be doing any time your are using style sheets with few exceptions).

Basically, when you enter the style sheet name in the Save As field, it ends up being named as untitled.css, rather than the name you typed. The good news is that Dreamweaver is consistent in that the link to the style sheet that is created uses untitled.css as well.

Basic 1-Column Layout

Most websites have a similar structure consisting of a header, content, and footer. The header is located at the top of the page and contains the title of the site, along with perhaps a logo, tagline, and some other branding. The header is usually consistent from page to page.

The content is where the “meat and potatoes” of the page goes. The information here will change for each page. Often this section of the page is divided into two columns with one being primary content and the other being secondary content.