Computer Programmers are used to working with a multi-tier system to bring efficiencies to the user and system. These complex systems break apart a program into three or more tiers usually. There is a data tier, a business logic tier, and a display tier. Depending upon your view, there are a couple of ways to…
A web page is a single file which contains a document following the HTML specification. It may reference external files to bring in design elements, multimedia elements, and script files. Typically this file will have an extension of either .html or .htm. On most web servers, web pages and other resources are case sensitive. Windows…
Version 4 and prior of HTML was a little “wild west” in how it was interpreted and defined. It wasn’t always consistent in how it was implemented or interpreted, and sloppy interpreters allowed lots of pages with errors displayed things differently. At one point it was estimated that 98% of all web pages had at…
As you’ve seen, you can store data as a string in the web storage systems, and that is it. It’s fine if you want to store a single number, or a string. But what about more complex data, which is harder to convert to a string. Converting Data to JSON Strings Well, using JSON (JavaScript…
To use Web Storage, we need to be both using HTML5 and JavaScript. Luckily Bootstrap is based on the HTML5 so that makes that part easy. To work with web elements, we can use JavaScript to access them, or jQuery, which is a little easier to identify individual elements in a script. Luckily for us,…
Using the Web Storage feature of HTML5 requires a bit of JavaScript, but overall is easy to use, once you learn it’s limits and capabilities. Web Storage is kind of like a simple, NoSQL database. I say, “like a” because while it is very similar in some respects, it is also different in others. Web…
Buttons are used for various purposes on a web page, like submitting a form. And sometimes we want a link to look like a button, and have to figure out how to make that work. Luckily, Bootstrap has given us several classes to make working with buttons and building buttons much easier! This includes both…
Getting a person’s attention is an increasingly difficult task. As a web designer, one of your jobs is to make sure the viewer of your webpage is drawn to the information they need. One way to do it, is with a clear, and simple design. Here’s a link to an Introduction to Visual Design if…
