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Expand your business with web standards conformance.
Web standards allow you to increase the searchability of your financial sites. Google has been dubbed the greatest blind user out there on the web, because it (as well as other search engines) are particularly partial to indexing standards-compliant sites. Break the “build, break, re-build” cycle. It is important to ensure forward compatibility of every [...]
How proper CSS & HTML coding affects your online business
Currently Internet witnesses increased complexity around content management systems, accessibility, rich internet applications (RIAs), mobile, application frameworks, syndication, and other multiuse channels, each of which may require to display the presentation of financial information – or a lack of any presentation information – associated with it. In the face of this requirement, most off-the-shelf software [...]
Pervasive bad habits in designing financial websites
In the 1990s, the Browser War that broke out between two financial giants Microsoft and Netscape was a cause of the development of many proprietary technologies and techniques that today have spread across the Internet. A great deal of these technologies involved presentation of various types of information (finances, stock exchange, education, entertainment etc.) into [...]
How does the CSS work?
In this lesson you will learn how to create your first style sheet. They are the basic model of CSS to know and we will show what lines of code are needed to CSS in an HTML document. Many of the properties specified in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used in similar way to those [...]
What is the difference between CSS and HTML?
A long long time, Madonna was a virgin and a guy called Tim Berners Lee invented the Internet. Then HTML was really only used for text structure. Author was able to highlight text, he could define it as “this is a headline” or “this is a text paragraph.” This was done with HTML tags such [...]
Introduction to CSS
Perhaps you have heard of CSS – but without really knowing what is behind it. In this lesson you will learn what CSS is and what CSS can do for you. CSS is the acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. What can I do with CSS? CSS is a style language, where the appearance of HTML [...]
About Me
My name is Caroline Derringer. I work as a professional business advisor and university professor of economy. The content of this blog is based on a series of lectures that I delivered in a few major US universities. They will soon be published as a book, but for the time being you can read them online.