Saturday was Seed Swap Day at Well House Manor. From around lunchtime, organisers arrived and sorted their seeds into a series of boxes all along the tables in the Wilts (that's our larger training room).
Boxes of root vegatables .. boxes of marrows .. boxes of fruit .. boxes of onions .. and a ....
A browser receives text in a stream - as black and white, if you like. But the human eye prefers colour, so that's how modern, syntax aware editors display it for you, highlighting particular aspects of the text such as html tags in a different colour. Look what I mean:
For a number of years, w ....
Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page
The most basic way of setting attributes like boldness, colour of font, centering, etc, is to use tags diret within the HTML. It's quite striaghtforward to do - simply surround the text you want to be bold with <b> to </b> for bold, with so ....
Continuing the series of HTML articles ... here are the tags that I've used in my blog articles, with a note of what each does, the number of times I've used it (!) and the most recent article it occurs in. Have a look at w3schools for the full definition of each of the tags.
<a 11242 / 40 ....
Which are the most commonly used special characters in an HTML stream? Totally unscientific, but here's a table of the ones that I've used in my 4000 or so blog articles thus far, the final column being a count of the number of occurrences.
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"Go look after this site - it's quite a small one". But even a small web site can have a lot of complexity these days, and that can often hide the basics.
Background
When a user calls up a web page, he's asking the browser on his computer (typically Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer; maybe Safa ....
Very interesting question that's come up on Facebook between a number of us slightly different Hotels and B&Bs ... the sort that have been gutsy enough to apply to appear on 4 in a bed, and have been quirky enough to be selected!
"Are you officially graded? We are graded 4 star but have decide ....
Bus service changes from 24 March 2013
Bus number: A4
Route: Bath to Bristol Airport
Operators: Bath Bus Company Ltd
New hourly service operating every day except Christmas Day.
In Bristol, the service will operate via Brislington, Hengrove and Highridge to Bristol Airport. In Bristol, local f ....
One of the elememts of a programming training course is showing people what happens when something goes wrong. We all make "silly" coding mistakes from time to time, and these often result in a syntax error when we compile (C, C++, Java), start to run (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua) or reach the sta ....
Over the weekend, the first member of the Well House Team to arrive at Well House Manor was delighted to see a pair of mallards on our pond / fountain. Several of us did our best to take pictures, but some of us (i.e. myself) got shakey and blurred pictures. Rachel, who's picture I've posted here ....