Archive for the HTML Tag

Customising your blog – some basic principles (Online Journalism Handbook)

Although I cover blogging in some depth in my online journalism book, I thought I should write a supplementary section on what happens when you decide to start customising your blog. Specifically, I want to address 3 key languages which you are likely to encounter, what they do, and how they work. What’s the difference? HTML, CSS, and PHP Most blog platforms
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The ‘title’ link attribute: is it worth it?

The title attribute of a hyperlink allows for a short description of the destination page to be displayed under the cursor. It helps the user get a hint of the linked page’s content without the loading time associated with Snapshot-like plugins (used on this blog). Most of us would look at the browser’s status bar, but it can be difficult
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Image of the day: technical skills required by journalism jobs

Eric Ulken has taken “all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like “editor”, “seeks” and “self-starter”) and built a tagcloud out of the rest”. This is the result: Eric Ulken | Technical skills in journalism jobs Blogged with Flock