When designing your web site you want to make the visiting experience as enjoyable as possible and at the same time make it so that if the site needs to be changed in any way Dan Feeney Hat , the changes are not too difficult to make. You want the look to be as appealing as possible for all browsers and also make the site accessible to users with disabilities. In order to accomplish all this there are some general guidelines when creating your HTML code.
1. The first thing that will really make your life easier is through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is used to maintain the look of the document such as the fonts, margins and color. HTML directly on the page is not a good choice to handle these aspects because if say, the font color you are using for certain paragraphs needs to be changed from blue to red Mike Williams Hat , you would have to go in and change each color tag manually. By using CSS you can designate the color for each of those paragraphs just once in the CSS file. That way if you have to change the font color from blue to red you make one change instead of the countless number of changes you might have to make, especially if your web site contains hundreds of pages. This is a big time saver and a must for all professionally designed web sites.
2. Don't use the FONT tag directly in your HTML code. This becomes a problem when using some cheap authoring tools that try to mimic what a web page should look like by using excessive FONT tags and nbsp characters. These tools end up creating web pages that are impossible to keep maintained. There is a program you can use, if you've created one of these disaster pages Kyzir White Hat , called the HTML Tidy Program which you can actually download here This will clean up your code as well as possible.
3. You want your web pages readable to people who have disabilities. People who surf the Internet depend on speech synthesizers or Braille readers to interpret the text on the page. If your HTML markup is sloppy or isn't contained in CSS the software these people use to read pages have a difficult time in interpreting these pages. You should also include descriptions for each image on your page. Also, don't use server side image maps. If you are using tables you should include a summary of the table's structure and also associate table data with the correct headers. This gives non visual browsers a chance to follow the page as they go from one cell to another. And finally, for forms Derwin James Hat , make sure you include labels for form fields.
By following just these three guidelines you give your visitors, especially disabled visitors the best chance of having an enjoyable visit to your site while at the same time making it so that if you have to make changes to your site, those changes can be made easily and quickly.
After working through steps 1 through 6 Jahleel Addae Hat , you now should have sufficient information to contact the parent of the bully and discuss ways to help them stop bullying. I approach the parent not in a blaming manner but in a helping manner ? after all I am a school counselor not an administrator. I feel like my role is to be supportive to all students.
I am very gentle in discussing with the parent that students as well as staff have reported their child for bullying. I offer our in-school counseling program at this point to the parent as a solution for curbing this behavior. I also ask them to address this issue with their child.
If you don't have an in-school counseling program, I offer some names of counselors in the community to give the parents somewhere to go if they want to choose that option.
Often parents of bullies are resistant or are bullies themselves.
Approaching them with the attitude that you are calling to be helpful to their child and not to blame works the best. Sometimes they will say that their child is being bullied also. I take the name of the students bothering their child and assure them that I will talk to their child and these students that are bothering himher the next day.
They also may question their child being reported by other students who may not be telling the truth. That is why I don't call a parent unless I have some information from adults in the building that they have heard or seen this child bullying.
I tell the parent all the information that has been reported to me except I do not give the names of the students who have reported the bullying. I do this to protect the students and also I don't feel it is ethical to discuss students with anyone other than their own parent or guardian.
If they push the point of wanting to know the student's name, I ask them if they would like me discussing their child's business with another parent Keenan Allen Hat , and try to get back to how to help their child stop bullying.
Contacting the parent may be tricky, but if they become your ally, both of you can work to stop the bullying and then everyone wins.
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