Author Archives: Bud Kraus

The Code To Content Ratio

By Bud Kraus | Published: August 4, 2011

Evangelists, like me, of web page design standards know that the adage "Less Is More" rocks when it comes to Hyper Text Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, and other markup and programming languages. Best practices of web page design will always lead to using the fewest tags and the least tortured CSS style rules. On [...]

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The Web Is A Writer’s Medium

By Bud Kraus | Published: July 25, 2011

MEMO: To all graphic artists, illustrators, animators and other multi-media artists. Here is my bad news. The web is a writer’s medium. If you disagree (and I almost hope you do) make sure to leave a comment below!! Okay, you may have already, reluctantly, come to that conclusion. You may have realized what I have [...]

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Are You And Your Web Browser Ready For HTML5?

By Bud Kraus | Published: July 12, 2011

In the weeks, months, and probably years to come, I will be writing about HTML5, the revised Hyper Text Markup Language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Before I get to showing you how to know what parts of HTML5 are presently supported by your (or any other) browser, I’d like to [...]

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The Fonts That Computers and Other People Are Using

By Bud Kraus | Published: June 23, 2011

Until downloadable webfonts become a mainstream practice (who can say when that will be!), it is important for web designers to know which fonts are likely to be installed on most users’ systems. Knowing this is also part of best practices in web site development. A great resource which keeps track in real time of [...]

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Will There Be A Web 3.0?

By Bud Kraus | Published: May 17, 2011

For reasons not even known to me I got interested in Web 3.0. Mind you, I haven’t even heard of 3.0 but I figured since I now sort of understand what Web 2.0 is, a 3 must becoming. My hunch was right but before I did much checking I thought I would try and figure [...]

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