Author Archives: Jeff Noble

HTML & CSS From Around the Web on February 10, 2012

Check out these cool web design links from around the web!

HTML & CSS From Around the Web on February 6, 2012

Check out these cool web design links from around the web!

The greatest commencement speech ever.

There really isn’t much to write on this HTML blog that anyone else hasn’t already said about the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs. Instead of writing yet another article about his effect on the computer and animation world, I’d prefer to just post the embedded YouTube clip below as the greatest commencement speech ever.

Webdesign Inspiration #1

To be a successful web designer I think it’s important to stay up to date with your skills, as well as draw from a wide range of resources (art, photography, random quotes, etc) for inspiration.  The following is a list of links (some new, some old, some design related, some not) that I think are pretty cool, I hope you agree.  Please feel free to suggest your own in the comments section below.
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Top 10 Reasons Writing HTML is Like 4th of July Fireworks

Greetings everyone,

I love writing HTML (big surprise) and I also love 4th of July fireworks. I was thinking (it happens for 10 minutes a day – max) about both and came up with the following list of the top 10 reasons writing HTML is like 4th of July Fireworks. Please feel free to add any that you think I may have left off.
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What we did and did not update in our 2nd pressing

Hi everyone, it’s been awhile and I apologize for the delay in posts but I’m happy to announce that the 7th edition of our book has been picked up for a 2nd pressing! Now get ready for some tricky coincidental math (7 x 2) but this means that we have sold almost 14k copies so far and I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your support.

This new updated 2nd pressing includes updates to:

  • Jeff’s bio (it keeps changing!)
  • Eric Meyer’s corrected foreword
  • Listing 1-1 thanks to Cass Witkoswki
  • (X)HTML character codes location thanks to Randy Schroder

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FREE Bonus HTML, XHTML & CSS For Dummies Chapter

When I first started writing this post I began with the title “How to Freak Out Your Publishing Company 101 – The Trials and Tribulations of Jeff Noble” but I ended up changing it to something a bit more clear and also I have a strange hatred of blog post titles that are 12 lines long, it bothers me and that’s weird – I’ll deal with it. Now back to the story, we totally are going to give away a free chapter, but first let me explain my patent pending steps to making your publishing company uneasy.

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Dummieshtml.com Free T-shirt!

Let’s see here, today is a huge day. This is officially my first blog post for Dummieshtml.com (awesome – I know), I’ll get to spend some time with my girlfriend after being stuck in NYC, I’m going to attempt to make some queso (that has potential disaster written all over it), there is a “big game” on television, and here is other thing too…

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