Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge challenge.

And the truth is: most college and university websites are horribly designed. Either they look like they were designed fifteen years ago and then forgotten about, or they’re so overloaded with information that it’s almost impossible to find what you’re looking for.

But not every college or university website is horrible. There are some excellent sites out there, and below are some of them. If you know others, please share them in the comments to this post!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/19/showcase-of-academic-and-higher-education-websites/

Thirteen Things To Do Before Migrating to a New Web Host

Without doubt, it’s a pain to migrate a huge and busy web site, but when your requirements grow and your current web host can’t keep up, it would be better to ditch it as soon as possible. However, before you sever all ties, it is better to protect what is yours and be sure everything is running properly at your new web host. Here is a list of thirteen things you need to do before leaving your old web host:

1. It’s obvious, you need to find a good web host and ensure that it can meet all your requirements.

http://hostwisely.com/blog/thirteen-things-to-do-before-migrating-to-a-new-web-hosting/

Do you know there are other ways of using CSS selectors? (Part 2)

Now that you have seen CSS base selectors, you might be wondering why one should bother with other selectors, since one can do everything with class and ID!
There’s nothing more professional than being able to use css rules appropriately and concisely. In this way, you will be able to improve the quality of your coding as well as shortening loading times of your webpages. Do you want to know how?

Using the universal selector

This selector is very powerful and it is represented by an asterisk ( * ). It can be read as “All the elements“. It is often used to “reset” the margin and the padding of all the elements:

http://www.yourinspirationweb.com/en/do-you-know-there-are-other-ways-of-using-css-selectors-part-2/