Monday, March 17, 2008

Testing web browsers

From The Web standards project: http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid3/

An interesting way to see how good your web browser ( it produces a rating out of 100%) is it to open

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

The page "should" look like...

http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html

IE rates around 13% Firefox around 50%

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Sketchcast and Common craft

Joyce as usual ferrits out interesting stuff.

Sketch Cast (2008). Retrieved March 11, 2008 from http://sketchcast.com/ 
- allows you to create flash based sketches online with audio

Common Craft (2007). Retrieved March 11, 2008 from http://www.commoncraft.com/
 - lots of neat flash videos explaining things like blogs, wikis etc.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Little trick to hide answers...

If you are in a blog (or in moodle (eitOnline for some)), you can hide answers to questions on the same page. By making the text colour the same as the background or background color the same as the text.

In moodle (eitOnline) thats easy as its on the toolbar, in WordPress (eduBlog) you need to go into the code, locate the font tag around what you want to hide and make it look like...

*<font color="white">Your answer </font>*

and add some instructions.. for example..

To do that click and drag your mouse from star to star.

* Hello ... *