Category: HTML and CSS

  • FireFox with a Google toolbar

  • FireFox tweak guide

    You are using Firefox, you want to use it at its best, you should go to the FireFox tweak guide.

  • 101 freeware and shareware programs

    Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but do not want to pay much. Freeware & shareware.

  • Webcron.org: crontab on the web

    Webcron is an automated task service at set hours. If you know Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcron is a Web adaptation of this well-known Crontab. But nothing complicated at all! Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours by looking for a page on your website. For example, save…

  • Use HTML tables, even with CSS styling

    After a previous post about the reasons there are not to use the HTML tables (and to prefer CSS tables), I want to come back to this issue with my own experience. When I went to the fifth version of this web site interface (the one you see at the time of posting this article),…

  • RSS feed – What is it?

    RSS feed – What is it?

    You may have noticed a new logo appearing on our web site since the redesigned interface went online. If your web browser supports it (Opera 9, FireFox, Internet Explorer 7), a similar orange icon may appear on the web address bar. This is a feature that is good both for users and for web site…

  • Chirurgy and web site

    As you certainly noticed, we changed significantly the look-and-feel of our web site. The plastic surgeon used its scalpel to give a new face to the web site: reduce the size of the pages (faster downloads for you), improve readability (the white background increases the contrast), come back to a more sober graphic design (only…

  • A look at the N|vu HTML/CSS editor

    N|vu is a web development application with a WYSIWYG interface that is aimed to be user friendly, easy and powerful. It is supposed to be a serious competition for major commercial tools like DreamWeaver (N|vu is a free download making it a good contender). Unfortunately, since it comes from the Open Source world, N|vu tends…

  • FrontPage is dead, long live FrontPage!

    finally, it’s happened! Microsoft announced officially the end of FrontPage (Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer will come in Spring to replace it). As a matter of fact, FrontPage did not really succeed in penetrating the pro market for web designers. Its utterly simplistic approach to web design was obviously far…