Joe Burns

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ October 2, 2000–Newsletter #100 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, You are reading newsletter number 100, a milestone by any standard. However, I am not celebrating just yet. I am happy for number 100, but it’ll be number 104 that gets me out for a decent meal. Newsletter […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #3 Published September 28, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers I now have over 1,500 site owners that have asked to have their sites critiqued. I try to read each of the e-mails I receive regarding a critique request. One asked if I was only going to critique sites […]

Concern #3: I noticed you used an ALT tag for each of the images. That’s good, but the ALT tag doesn’t describe what the image link goes to. The ALT tag describes the image. Suggestion: Use the ALT tag to describe the link. Have the little yellow tool tip state that this cat tray image […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ September 25, 2000–Newsletter #99 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear Let’s say you run a magazine, a radio station, or a television station and a rumor comes up about one of your advertisers. The rumor is some what substantiated, but you’re still not sure if […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #2 Published September 20, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, fellow designers This week we’ll delve into the world of personal investments with Conrad Capital Management. This site caught my eye for two reasons: the topic and the fact that it has a couple of design elements that are used far […]

Concern #2: OK! Now we’re talking. Now I can do something. I have arrived at a home page. Don went with frames, but didn’t think through the design quite well enough. Here’s a rule of thumb when it comes to frames: there should only ever be one scroll bar and it should always be on […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ September 18, 2000–Newsletter #98 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear If you sell over the Internet in California, you might have to collect tax. At least that’s what a bill put before the congress states. Democratic assemblywoman Carole Migden proposed the bill in such a […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #1 Published September 13, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers First off, thank you for signing up for this, the newest HTML Goodies newsletter. The concept of this newsletter is to start a discussion about Web site design. Site design is something that often takes a back seat to […]

Praise: Right off, the site is flashy. The colors are bright but not so bright that I have to wear shades. The site simply looks fun. The home page, referred to as the main page, displays almost fully on one browser window. I dont need to scroll to get to any of the links. They […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ September 11, 2000–Newsletter #97 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings Weekend Silicon Warriors, Well, there are two computers humming in the Burns household. My wife’s business went live midnight Eastern Time September 1st. She’s opened an online art gallery selling street art from Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, and London. I have […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ September 4, 2000–Newsletter #96 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear Compaq has received permission to build the world’s fastest computer. The thing will be the size of a basketball court and contain 12,000 CPU chips. It’s expected to be able to perform up to 30 […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ August 28, 2000–Newsletter #95 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Today is a pretty big day if all goes as planned at Earthweb Inc. The HTML Goodies redesign should be up and running. If it’s not up today, it’ll be up tomorrow. The redesign is XML driven and […]