184 Chapter 4: Using HTML Figure : The Element Inspector in Google Chrome As shown in Figure , the Element Inspector has many powerful features, including the graphic display of an element’s box properties. It provides a nicely formatted listing of the HTML source code and the CSS associated with each document element. It is also interactive, changing the displayed properties and values as you mouse over the various page elements. The other tools, accessible from the Element Inspector’s menu bar, offer additional information on the resources used by the page, as well as how the browser loaded them. The Console tool is. | 184 Chapter 4 Using HTML Figure The Element Inspector in Google Chrome As shown in Figure the Element Inspector has many powerful features including the graphic display of an element s box properties. It provides a nicely formatted listing of the HTML source code and the CSS associated with each document element. It is also interactive changing the displayed properties and values as you mouse over the various page elements. The other tools accessible from the Element Inspector s menu bar offer additional information on the resources used by the page as well as how the browser loaded them. The Console tool is invaluable for debugging faulty JavaScript functions. I encourage you to become familiar with these tools even if you do not intend to get very deep into Web programming. Other tools are available to help you work with HTML entirely through your browser. Firebug for the Firefox browser is one of my favorites as is the Web Developer tools collection. Search the Internet for add-ons and extensions to your favorite browser with keywords such as web developer and you will find several that are free and easily installed. From the Library of Wow eBook Blogging 185 Blogging Blogging has grown tremendously in recent years to become an important channel for people to develop and share content on the Web. Modern blogging software such as WordPress and Movable Type go beyond the posting of articles and comments with powerful content-management capabilities. Major media websites are powered by blogging software. Blogging can be experienced in two ways. If you run your own blog you have complete control of a website including its structure appearance and operation. As the owner you have administrator privileges including the ability to add other users to your blog in various roles. Posting privileges vary according to the user s role. Administrators editors and authors can publish articles on a blog. Contributors can submit articles that are then approved by an .
