Jennifer Kyrnin: excellent web design resources at About.com
I’ve been experimenting with html editors – largely to get a handle on some layout issues while keeping the learning curve
Unequal Spacing - image by Jennifer Kyrnin
nice and shallow – and in doing so discovered Jennifer Kyrnin, who is the author of a number of excellent articles at About.com.
Here’s her list of The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows. And here are some others I found helpful. (I’ll admit that when I found her arguing persuasively that tables shouldn’t be used for anything except tabular data because they slow things down, it wasn’t what I wanted to hear).
- Don’t Use Tables for Layout
- Using Tables to Do Page Layout
- Do You Really Need that Table?(1 – 3 were the triptych of bad news but good advice, I thought)
- 95 SEO Tips and Tricks
- SEO Step-by-Step
- What is Search Engine Optimization?
- SEO Made Simple (is by Heather Cross, another About.com writer, but it belongs with these other pieces)
- SEO Checklist
- Typography on the Web is About the Little Details
- Use Real Text for Testing Page Layouts – when to use, and when not to use, Lorem Ipsum (See also my earlier post HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy, and also Jennifer Kyrnin’s Lorem ipsum dolor placeholder text – How to use Lorem ipsum text
- Link Rot: Are You a Culprit?
I have one general reservation when I’m researching anything at About.com: articles aren’t dated. And since things do change over time, there’s the risk that the quality of the site’s intelligence may have eroded. That said, Jennifer Kyrnin’s work stood out – and my sense is that most of it is – as of this writing – very useful.
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