HigherEd BlogCon didn’t end with the end of the library track. This week has been the websites & web development track, and my presentation, Know Enough to Be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS, is up today.

A few thoughts:

• The screencasts I made with Camtasia turned out to be much larger (i.e., more megabytes) than I thought they would be. I hope people are able to stream them OK.

• The name of the presentation is misleading. It’s almost entirely about CSS.

• It was a challenge to write to the proper audience. The idea was to help people who want to customize their blog templates, but don’t know much about CSS. I didn’t want to write an intro to CSS textbook, so if you have never used CSS before at all, this might not be enough of an introduction for you. If you are already building pages with CSS, there might not be much new. Either way, I hope you take a look at it and let me know what you think. I’m keeping a copy of the presentation on this site, so if I get good suggestions to change it, I would likely make changes on that copy.

• If nothing else, I hope my presentation encourages everyone to use Firefox, and everyone who creates web pages to try Chris Pederick’s Web Developer extension for Firefox. It is an extremely useful and elegant Swiss Army Knife of a tool.

• Otherwise, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I have some thoughts as to how future HEBCs might improve the experience for presenters and participants, but I’ll keep them to myself for the moment, as I don’t want to look like I’m complaining. Overall, it has been a positive experience for me, and I’m happy to have had the opportunity to present.

Tags: higheredblogcon, blogging, css, self-promotion, presentation