Welcome to Jewels Web Graphics

Some people who are reading this, (waves to the three of you ) may be aware that I have been attempting to broaden my internet horizons for some time now. In fact, this journey probably actually began when I started my IT degree course in 2003, and realised that there was more to the web than just making pretty graphics to display on it. Yes, I know that is what JWG is known and recognised for (if it is known at all ), and the ‘web graphics’ in the site name is a bit of a give-away, but…….
I am very pleased that I can still be of help to those of you who are just discovering the joys of graphics, animation et al, but also hope to encourage at least some of my visitors to consider exploring other aspects of the web, and indeed computing in general. To that end, I have provided a blogroll, webnews, and bookmarks on the sidebar –> which contain a selection of interesting sites and feeds that, (in my ever so humble opinion), are well worth a read, and perhaps also subscribing to, on your own website/blog, newsreader. Many of these bloggers/writers provide us with considerable information and food for thought, about the ever-expanding world of technology. One such person that I want to draw your attention to today, is Robert Scoble. Continue reading »

A glance at our visitor stats tells us that most of you are still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as your main or only browser, and I was wondering how many of you have been tempted to try something new, and if not, why not? Are you worried that you wont like a different browser? Has IE become like a comfortable pair of slippers that you are reluctant to change? As the Firefox browser has reached 90 million downloads this week, and Opera 8.5 has just been released, (and is now totally ad-free), there has never been a better time to give either or both of them a try. Continue reading »

JWG now has a Bookmarks - -> section, where I will be adding useful, interesting sites that you may wish to visit. The bookmarks will cover a variety of topics, but will mostly be related to web and computing matters.
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OMGosh I ran a page of my site through a validator. Silly me. It’s bad enough that the page had so many errors, (many of them duplicated ones), but then when I read up on the meaning of the errors… Continue reading »

If you are going to make a website, you need to think about how you are going to structure it or, put simply: what are you going to use to write your pages?
Current best practice is to separate style from content. In a nutshell, this means separating how it looks (style) from what it does - showcases your graphics, sells your products, etc - (content.) Basically, you should use CSS to set out the layout, colours, fonts and so on, (the style); and XHTML markup for your site content. Continue reading »