Way back in the stone age when I began my bachelor’s degree in computer science, computers were impressive things, taking up whole buildings though having less actual computing power than a modern cell phone. Yes, we powered the things by steam and entered data with stone tablets. It seems like it anyway. Punch cards were [...]
The best kind of simple is the kind that makes information obvious and using the site easy, not the sparest interface
The simple concept that simple is best is not so simple. Simple as opposed to confusing is good. Simple as opposed to busy is not so straight forward a call
You want to take control of your marketing efforts, or maybe inform the members of your non-profit, or simple express yourself. A website is a great tool for those needs. Others too.
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….1em 0 .7em 0; /* top margin very small , left and right margins 0, bottom margin a little less than browser default */ } li, li li, li li li, { font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1em; margin-bottom: .5em } /* All the li selectors are included to keep list elements from becoming progressively smaller as they are nested.
…} /*Ordered lists need just a bit more margin */ blockquote { margin-left: 2.2em; padding: .2em; background: #efefef; border-left: 1px dotted #ccc; } /* First, the left margin.
If you tried the Ruby on Rails (RoR) bible, Agile Web Development with Rails, and found it a bit over your head, you should find this an kinder and gentler primer.Ruby on Rails for Dummies assumes absolutely no prior programming experience…. But if you have your hand coding chops but no real programming background you should find this book a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails.It made a number of ideas clear that the Agile book assumed I was already familiar with. It provides a nice quick start to RadRails, a fee RoR development environment, which somewhat insulates you from the straight command line approach taken my more advanced RoR texts and provides a pre-packaged Ruby on Rails development environment.
