I figured it was time to do a website update, considering I haven't said anything since December last year. As should be apparent by now, Inside Geek Canada has ceased production. I have decided to keep the site up for now, however all that will be on here is the actual blog articles; everything else on the site will be closed, including the forums.

I really did enjoy doing Inside Geek and it was fun while it lasted, but honestly it's hard to continue putting in a lot of work without much of a benefit. And since I started Aperio Studios I really have no time to commit to Inside Geek. Even my emails, I just haven't had the time to answer and research answers for the community anymore. I do appreciate all the support everyone gave towards the community and me.

So the site's main content will stay up but nothing more. We're currently looking for clients at Aperio Studios and we would be happy to work with your company for your web video production needs. You can also follow me on Twitter if you wish, http://www.twitter.com/evanthies.

Thanks again,

Evan Thies

I just wanted to make a quick post to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I wish the best to you and your families. I would also like to thank everyone who has been very supportive of Inside Geek Canada and our videos since we started in July.

I'll try to get some new videos up early in the new year, but I expect the new year to start off pretty slow. I am focusing heavily on Aperio Studios right now and will be for the next while. In the coming months videos will be released when available with a lot less produced. But with plenty of content already on the site and questions from the videos coming in daily I expect the site to continue to grow.

All the best in the new year,

Evan Thies

As you have probably have noticed it's been a while since I have released a new video. This is because I have been working hard on Aperio Studios. From now until the holidays videos will continue to be released but there will be no guarantee on how many and what days they will be released. I will still be taking emails at evan@insidegeek.ca if you have any questions you may need help with, whether that is from a previous video or other tech related questions.

Thanks for understanding

Evan Thies

Today's video is an XHTML tutorial on how to attach a stylesheet. We are going to cover the three main techniques you can use, those being external, embedded, and inline. An external stylesheet references a separate file for all it's CSS file information. Embedded styles are in each individual page and have styles specific to that particular page. And inline styles define the styles for a single element that needs a unique style. This tutorial is done using Adobe Dreamweaver but any text editor or html editor will work for this.

For this example we are using XHTML 1.0 Strict. Below is the basic code with no style information included:

Two of these style types will be done inside of the head tag. The first one we will discuss is how to attach a linked stylesheet. The code below will add a linked external stylesheet to your website:

The next style type is an embedded style. The code below will add an embedded style to your website. This is once again done inside the head tag and keep in mind that it requires a separate closing tag.

In-between the opening and closing style tags you can add any css code you wish as you normally would in any other css document.

The last style type is an inline style. This is added to an element directly in the XHTML markup. Here are two examples of using inline styles, one placed on a paragraph and the other placed on a DIV:

You can also reference different elements in css by adding an id or class to the elements in your XHTML markup. This is an ideal way to do things to try and help separate markup from design as much as possible.

Those are three ways of adding a stylesheet to your website, using either a linked stylesheet, embedded styles, or inline styles.

Hello everyone (yes I start blog posts the same way I start my videos),

I wanted to write a post to give an update to a few changes that are going to happen. I have decided to temporarily stop producing the website feature for Inside Geek Canada. This video was typically released on Wednesday and gave a demo/tutorial of a certain website.

Why am I doing this? Well there are a couple of reasons:

First, I have recently launched a video production company called Aperio Studios. The idea of this company only came together two weeks ago, but I want to dedicate more time to getting it off the ground.

Second, as you may have noticed, the videos typically were released somewhat late, usually a day or two. And blog posts sometimes took a few days to get caught up. Because of this I feel three videos is too much for me to do each week. I work a full time day job and now with my new company my time is even less.

Third, video takes time. It's not a quick process putting together a video. First I have to film the video and capture that footage. Then I have to edit it and export it, and then finally I have to compress it. And because I am working with HD footage, exporting and compressing can take hours.

Recently I have been working on a media kit, and if I want to take on advertisers I have to be able to release my content on time. So until further notice there will only be two videos released per week. On Monday the Application and Tech Feature will be released and on Friday the iPhone feature will be released.

I fully intend to bring back a Wednesday video, whether that be the Website Feature or something else, but that will be in a while once I have more time to produce the videos. I think three weekly videos is a good number and I hope to bring back another weekly video eventually.

There will be no videos this week due to all of these changes and some of the work I am doing on the website. Videos will resume on Tuesday November 11th with the Application & Tech Feature.

Evan Thies