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Selena Frye

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Selena Frye

Selena Frye
Selena has been at TechRepublic since 2002. She is currently a Senior Editor with a background in technical writing, editing, and research. She edits Data Center, Linux and Open Source, Apple in the Enterprise, The Enterprise Cloud, Web Designer, and IT Security blogs.
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    Quick Tip: Make your URLs user-friendly

    Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | April 12, 2011, 10:54 AM PDT

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    20 more online tools for web design

    Ryan Boudreaux presents 20 more online tools for web designers. They include tools for font selection, px to em conversion, type tuning, CSS snippets, and more.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | April 7, 2011, 2:00 PM PDT

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    Quick Tip: Validate your code

    Ryan Boudreaux discusses the best practice of validating your code for the web, offers some tips to streamline the process, and highlights some handy tools.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | April 5, 2011, 12:28 PM PDT | Latest comment by Ron_007

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    20 online topography tools for web design

    Ryan Boudreaux highlights 20 of his favorite online topography tools for web designers. These tools will help you with various elements of style, including word spacing, font selection, converting...

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 31, 2011, 12:23 PM PDT | Latest comment by conceptual

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    Quick Tip: Setting options to print web documents

    Ryan Boudreaux addresses the issue of setting options via CSS that allows users to print documents from the web. He provides some resources to help you find a web printing solution.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 29, 2011, 10:44 AM PDT

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    Backgrounds in web design: Adding text styles

    The final post in Ryan Boudreaux's backgrounds in web design series shows you how to add the final text styles to the design in CSS.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 23, 2011, 7:59 AM PDT | Latest comment by TAPhilo

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    Quick Tip: Character encoding

    Ryan Boudreaux explains the importance of setting character encoding so that browsers render web content correctly and offers some examples for how to specify the appropriate encoding.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 22, 2011, 6:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by xmetal

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    Backgrounds in web design: Adding navigation

    Ryan Boudreaux continues his project series on creating background web designs with this installment, which shows you how to add navigation links utilizing CSS to define multiple clickable hotspots.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 17, 2011, 1:13 PM PDT | Latest comment by bear_it999@...

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    Quick Tip: Proofreading tricks for clean content

    Don't expect your customers to hand you clean content. Here are some tried and true proofreading tips to keep mistakes from cropping up on your websites.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 15, 2011, 10:01 AM PDT | Latest comment by Ryan Boudreaux

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    Backgrounds in web design: Going from PSD to code

    Ryan Boudreaux continues his example website project of creating backgrounds for web pages. In this installment, he takes the Photoshop design to CSS code.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 10, 2011, 12:25 PM PST

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    Designing websites without code

    You don't necessarily have to know how to code to produce a website these days. Ryan Boudreaux looks at some of the platforms that allow for easy, rapid website development.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 8, 2011, 11:57 AM PST | Latest comment by spearson@...

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    Backgrounds in web design: Creating a theme

    Ryan Boudreaux shows you how to create a unified website theme by fitting backgrounds, illustrations, images, graphics, and textual content together in a design. In this post, he puts together an...

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | March 3, 2011, 11:47 AM PST | Latest comment by haven_u

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    How to right-size your website for mobile screens

    Sankalp Waingankar shows you how to make optimum use of the screen width provided by different mobile devices even when you have to design for older devices that don't support the use of HTML tables.

    Posted by Sankalp Waingankar | March 1, 2011, 9:55 AM PST | Latest comment by blog commenting

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    How to specify the document language: Using the lang attribute

    Ryan Boudreaux presents this quick tip to show you why it's a good idea to declare your document language and how to use the lang attribute correctly.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | February 28, 2011, 12:41 PM PST

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    Dreamweaver: Search and destroy rogue code

    Ryan Boudreaux takes you step-by-step through the process of checking for and safely deleting any rogue code that you might find in your files.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | February 25, 2011, 6:00 AM PST

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    Template resources for web design

    Templates let you develop web sites that share a similar structure and graphic identity, quickly and without having to worry about accidentally deleting or changing elements. Ryan Boudreaux...

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | February 23, 2011, 12:42 PM PST | Latest comment by Dethpod

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    Web development using Go

    Go has enjoyed unusually rapid adoption and popularity among developers. Here are some highlights of using this programming language.

    Posted by Chip Camden | February 23, 2011, 9:34 AM PST | Latest comment by Cannabis Seed

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    How to design a shopping website for easy content discovery

    Sankalp Waingankar lists some best practices for designing shopping websites that are user-friendly and make it easy to find exactly what a buyer is looking for.

    Posted by Sankalp Waingankar | February 18, 2011, 6:00 AM PST | Latest comment by seanferd

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    How to select a color scheme for your website

    Using the Color Scheme Designer tool, Ryan Boudreaux shows you how you can use it to create a well-designed color theme for your website that is easy on the eye.

    Posted by Ryan Boudreaux | February 17, 2011, 8:20 AM PST | Latest comment by bobby@...

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    Poll: Have you studied usability?

    Usability is all about making it easy for people to use your site or application, and yet not all developers and designers have studied the topic. Take this poll to let us know if you've studied...

    Posted by Justin James | February 16, 2011, 4:48 AM PST | Latest comment by touringtools

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