Anna Ullrich
Anna Ullrich's blog, devoted to art, creativity, web design & development, and Microsoft Expression Web
Increase your search rankings with better web page titles
Are you still waiting for a flood of visitors to find your site? Wondering if you need to invest in...
Date: 03/11/2010
“Sadistic” Web Developers Taunt Internet Explorer 6 Users
There’s a good article on CNN.com today titled “Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6”,...
Date: 08/06/2009
Song and video inspired by Microsoft Windows
I’m so in love with this song and video right now. Jib Kidder’s “Windowdipper”: I learned about the...
Date: 07/15/2009
Make Web Not War
Picked up a bunch of these awesome bumper stickers from a colleague today. Make Web Not War is the...
Date: 05/19/2009
Lorem Ipsum Code Snippet
I just made my first contribution to the newish Gallery section of the Expression Community website...
Date: 05/07/2009
Give up CSS layouts and use tables
The clock is ticking …. https://giveupandusetables.com/ ( Thanks to Janko Jovanovic for making me...
Date: 04/22/2009
effectively communicating with your web development colleagues
Here’s a gem from the Vimeo team on communicating effectively: Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on...
Date: 04/06/2009
Save Internet Explorer 6
Just stumbled on this website which happened to launched on this special day, April 1, 2009:...
Date: 04/01/2009
Test your sites in different versions of Internet Explorer (Part 2) – Introducing SuperPreview (BETA)
My earlier post Test your websites in different versions of Internet Explorer has received a lot of...
Date: 03/18/2009
Oh to be young again, and free to form a global media company…
I received an email from Twitter last week, informing me that 9miles was now following me on...
Date: 03/17/2009
New forum at Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine has launched a new forum: https://forum.smashingmagazine.com/ And they’re giving...
Date: 02/13/2009
The vexing hunt for HEX values
I’ve watched a lot of web developers jumping between their HTML code editor and their page comp in...
Date: 02/12/2009
Separating the wheat from the chaff: Script & Style helps you find the best web development articles
The Community Server control panel for my blog purports to show me what site a person was on when...
Date: 01/28/2009
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference at your fingertips: FireScope add-on for Firefox
SitePoint has released the “first phase” of their JavaScript reference, and they’ve also completely...
Date: 01/27/2009
Test your websites in different versions of Internet Explorer
[Update March 18, 2009 - see my new post about a new feature called SuperPreview for testing your...
Date: 01/25/2009
Twitter on PHP versus ASP.NET
NETTUTS is a good website for web development and design tutorials: https://nettuts.com/. Jeffrey...
Date: 01/23/2009
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolbar for Firefox
Free SEO toolbar for your Firefox web browser. “What would happen if you smooshed together many of...
Date: 01/15/2009
Are your websites up?
Having trouble keeping track of all your websites and whether they’re up or down? A new website by...
Date: 01/13/2009
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
…depends on who you talk to. If you talk to a visual designer, such as the person who develops web...
Date: 01/12/2009
Easy discount for An Event Apart Web Design Conference
If you plan to attend An Event Apart this year and you are on Facebook, you should join the...
Date: 01/05/2009
Better error messages “are recommended”
A code error tip in Expression Web: “The World-Wide-Web Consortium now regards the attribute ‘[html...
Date: 01/02/2009
Robust Standards-based web authoring tool for only $49.95
[UPDATE – THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.] For a limited time, if you live in the United States,...
Date: 12/23/2008
Google’s Chrome: Dang, Yet Another Browser to Test my Websites In…or should I even bother?
There’s a new kid on the block in the web browser neighborhood: CHROME by Google. Yet another web...
Date: 09/04/2008
Who's editing your CSS?
The vast majority of front end web developers that I've met prefer to write their own markup in the...
Date: 06/22/2008
Webmonkey.com reborn with version 2.0 BETA
When I first started building websites, I visited webmonkey.com often for its tutorials and to look...
Date: 06/01/2008
Add W3C search to the Internet Explorer or Firefox search box
As you've surely discovered by now, in the top right corner of Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox is a...
Date: 05/12/2008
Live Search of the W3C
Live Search of the W3C website For instructions on how to add this search to your browser search...
Date: 05/11/2008
Google search of the W3C website
Google search of the W3C website For instructions on adding this search to your browser search text...
Date: 05/08/2008
Ian Curtis dancing out of control
Microsoft will be releasing a special Joy Division edition version of the Zune music player to...
Date: 04/25/2008
ART = DECOR
Question: What's fine art photography? Spike Mafford's reply: "...art that's used as decor rather...
Date: 04/20/2008
Am I hot or not?
You've visited the https://www.hotornot.com/ website. You've voted. You've compared your vote to the...
Date: 04/14/2008
Books as sculpture
Brian Dettmer creates beautiful diorama-like sculptures out of books. More images at Aron Packer...
Date: 04/13/2008
Click to activate DEACTIVATED in Internet Explorer
Passing along the good news that the 'click to activate' behavior has been removed from Internet...
Date: 04/08/2008
In 3 and a half minutes, all you need to know about web design and web standards
Date: 04/04/2008
Get your ART on @ Microsoft
When I arrived for my first interview to join the Expression Web team at Microsoft, I went past the...
Date: 04/01/2008
Flash Magazine review of Expression Web & Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor
Good review of Expression Web and Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor add-in for the program:...
Date: 04/01/2008
Foxy searching
The first time I hit CTRL+F while using Firefox I thought I had either encountered a bug or the...
Date: 03/25/2008
nonstandard Web Standards meetups ?
I searched https://www.meetup.com/ this morning for "web standards" to see if there were any new...
Date: 03/08/2008
plates overflowing with CSS
I think I'm the only person at Microsoft who brings her own plate to the cafeterias on campus here...
Date: 03/05/2008
Creating a "content" snippet
I was working on a demo to present to a few people earlier today, and wanted to insert some Latin...
Date: 03/03/2008
Community website for Expression
Check out the new Community website devoted to design, creative development, and Expression Studio:...
Date: 02/28/2008
Meet with folks from Expression Web at MIX 2008
Four members of my Expression Web team (sadly not me!) are headed to MIX 2008 in Las Vegas, and...
Date: 02/22/2008
NEW Expression community discussion forums
The Expression family of products has a new and greatly improved discussion forum:...
Date: 02/20/2008
Center a page (horizontally) by using CSS
I often see posts in the Microsoft Expression Web discussion forum, asking how to make a web page...
Date: 02/19/2008
wrestlers
just something I started last weekend:
Date: 02/19/2008
Interactive buttons - a better way using CSS
My inaugural blog post is a tutorial that I promised to create for an Expression Web user a long...
Date: 02/17/2008