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Web Design Group

This Group meets at 2:00pm - 3rd Saturday each month at Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street. Visitors are welcome

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Making the Web Accessible

Strategies, standards and supporting resources are available to help make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities.
W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web: HTML, CSS, and many more. WAI: The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) also develops support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility.

Visual Studio Code's new Milestone

Microsoft today announced a significant milestone for its Visual Studio product family: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now serve more than 50 million monthly active developers combined.

First introduced 28 years ago, Visual Studio remains a leading integrated development environment (IDE), largely due to the popularity of the Windows ecosystem. Over the years, it has evolved to support cross-platform development, cloud-native applications, game development, data science workflows, and more. It remains one of the few IDEs to include compilers, debuggers, profilers, designers, and language services out of the box.


The Sydney PC & Technology User Site Incorporates
- Responsive Web Design -

Selection of mobile screensResponsive Web Design is about creating webpages that look great when viewed on any device and screen size. Whether viewed on a TV, desktop, tablet or smart phone, web pages should provide an enjoyable, visitor friendly experience for everyone.

The way we do this, is to set the page content to automatically fit each visitor's device “viewport” (screen width), using various CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) controls. We simply set the page content to automatically fit each visitor's device “viewport” (screen width), using various CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) controls.
Typically, page controls are applied to, page sizes, margins and padding, font type and sizes, plus lots more. This has the advantage of any website’s content being precisely re-arranged to display correctly on every viewing device.

Test your code with Nu Html Checker

Check Html code for faultsNu Html Checker is very helpful in pinpointing code errors and providing solutions, however be aware of their following disclaimer:
The Nu Html Checker (v.Nu) is an ongoing experiment in better HTML checking, and its behaviour remains subject to change. In particular, because new types of error checks continue to be actively added to the checker, there is no guarantee provided that if the checker reports zero errors for a particular document at one point in time, it will report zero errors for that same document at some later point in time.
The Nu Html Checker should not be used as a means to attempt to unilaterally enforce pass/fail conformance of documents to any particular specifications; it is intended solely as a checker, not as a pass/fail certification mechanism. Test your Html code here.

Common Myths about Private Browsing

spy mask There are plenty of reasons why you might want to keep something you are doing on the web to yourself. That’s where Private Browsing mode comes in handy. However, before we extol its significant beneficial features we need to disclose some of the misconceptions about Private Browsing.

One of the most common myths about Private Browsing (in any major web browser) is that it makes you anonymous on the Internet - not true. Now, to learn more about how different Private Browsing features can help conceal your browsing activities, be sure to check out this site.

Visual Studio Code is a powerful free code editor

Brackets web editor logo Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Learning to code can be intimidating, so set yourself up for success with a tool built for you. Visual Studio Code helps you to start coding quickly. Use it to code in any programming language, without switching editors. Ready to get started? Check out these introductory videos or check out our coding packs for Java, Python, and .NET.


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