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By
Blake Watson ·
January 13, 2020
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If you’ve followed along, then you’ve created your very own webpage using HTML and put it on the web using Netlify. You probably noticed that it’s very plain-looking. That’s because we haven’t specified how anything should look. By default, the browser applies some basic styles—headings are big and bold, lists are indented, links are blue and underlined.
These default styles get the point across and make the site usable, but we could definitely make some improvements and use our own sense of style to add some personality. Design on the web is a big, wonderful world, with many resources to help yourself learn and improve. Here’s a great book on web design made for non-designers.
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Posted in: Design, Tutorial, Web Dev
Shared by Blake Watson ·
January 12, 2020
This is a guest post that I wrote for CSS-Tricks a while back. This is the story of why I fell in love with web development and why think it’s a great career, especially for people with disabilities.
Posted in: Assistive Technology, Web Dev
Shared by Blake Watson ·
October 10, 2019
I plan to do a little of an introduction to CSS to follow up my post about making your first website. But until then this is a nice walkthrough of adding some visual styles to a webpage made with default HTML styling.
Posted in: Design, Tutorial, Web Dev
Shared by Blake Watson ·
September 30, 2019
This is a little bit of an advanced read if you are just starting out. But I wanted to link to it to demonstrate that it’s possible to code even if you have extreme difficulty typing on a hardware keyboard—or even if you can’t type on a hardware keyboard at all.Talon is the software that I use to code by voice (I also use an onscreen keyboard, but that’s for another post). It’s Mac-only for now, but it’s coming to Windows and Linux very soon.
Posted in: Assistive Technology, Resources, Talon, Tutorial, Web Dev
Shared by Blake Watson ·
September 30, 2019
Don’t let the name fool you. CSS-Tricks is more than just CSS (the styling language of the web). It covers beginner-level to expert-level topics in web development. In my opinion, it shines in its ability to deliver practical, insightful intermediate-level topics.For anyone just starting out, you will undoubtedly become familiar with CSS-Tricks as it often holds the top spots on search results pages for common web dev searches. This is because CSS-Tricks offers an enormous amount of quality content, including in-depth guides, a library of helpful code snippets, and a full-blown CSS reference with explanation and examples.
Posted in: Resources, Web Dev
By
Blake Watson ·
September 25, 2019
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Ok, you have decided it would be cool if you knew how to code a webpage. Now what? This article is going to take you from nothing to having your own website on the internet. Provided you have a computer and an internet connection, the following guide will get you online with your very first webpage—for free.
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