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 | I have been trying to get myself more comfortable with drawing so that I'm willing to show other people what I draw, but it's hard. I do believe that everyone can draw, but being able to draw a stick figure or rectangle doesn't make you an artist. This week's poll has already generated some interesting comments, so I wanted to highlight it. Can you draw? Plus there are articles on parental controls, encoding URLs, and the HEAD element. Every week in the forum we get several pleas for help. Sometimes I have answers but not always. If you've ever been helped by someone else, why not take a few minutes to pop into the Web Design forum or the HTML / XML forum and "pay it forward." Please forward this newsletter, in its entirety, to your colleagues, coworkers and friends, anyone you think would like to learn more about web design, HTML, and web development. | |
Poll: Can you draw?
I don't normally call out the poll as the first spotlight, but I found some of the comments really interesting. It's funny, but I agree with the statements that a couple people made that "everyone can draw," but I am also resistant to it. I was talking to my mom over the Thanksgiving holiday and I realized that for me, the problem is not whether or not I can draw, but whether or not I'm willing to let someone else look at what I drew. I draw all the time for myself, pictures on notes so I remember something better, sketches for a design idea I might have, even doodles while I'm watching TV or talking on the phone. But it's unlikely I'd be willing to show people those drawings. In fact, that is one of the hardest parts of art classes is showing people my work. It's never as nice as I would have wanted it to be, and never favorably compares to the other students' work. What do you think? Can you draw? Are you willing to share your work with others? Or as one commenter said, are you an artist—meaning that you enjoy drawing? Vote Now View Results
| Design Your Site for Parental Controls
It's hard to think how a website might be able to hurt you, but if you're at work and you accidentally (or deliberately) go to an offensive site, you might be fired or sued for sexual harassment. I have one friend who was nearly fired simply for going to a website that played music automatically. And children are especially vulnerable to unscrupulous sites. As a web designer, you have a duty to make your sites safe for your visitors.
| Understanding the HEAD Element
The HEAD element is an HTML element that is found on nearly every web page. It is usually the first content that is found in the HTML document but it is content that is hidden (mostly) from your users. Learn more about the HEAD element and how to use it effectively in this article.
| URL Encoding Table
If you're building a web page there are some characters that you should not use in file names, directory names or domain names; in other words, characters you should not use in your URLs. There are some that have a reserved use by the browser or web server, and some that are simply invalid. Once you know these characters, you can learn the encoding you can use if you need to have them in a URL, such as in a query string.
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