Posted on July 2nd, 2009
Because of its features that made web designing a lot easier and convenient, CSS has become one of the many popular languages in web designing and layout. Another reason for its popularity is because of the ease of the demand for it in the industry. Today, several websites have been put up to provide people who wanted to learn a simple step by step on how CSS works or advanced CSS styles. Here are some of the most popular websites built to provide the necessary information, knowledge, and know-h...
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Posted on July 1st, 2009
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers
must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is
regarded as a service and therefore falls under this law.
Some organisations are changing their websites, but many are
seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't
access their website, they say, so why should they care?
The statistics on the number of users who may face difficulties
in using your website are however quite startling:
'There are 8.6 million re...
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Posted on June 30th, 2009
In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began.
The Disability Discrimination Act was passed, stating that:
'It is unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a
disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it
provides to members of the public.'
A website is regarded as a service and the RNIB (Royal National
Institute for the Blind) and DRC (Disability Rights Commission)
have been quick to apply pressure on to organisations to push
this law into practice. Ind...
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Posted on June 29th, 2009
There has been widespread speculation about the new legislation
that is being introduced, which will ensure that websites are
accessible to disabled users. Trenton Moss, Managing Director of
Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co.uk), a web accessibility
and usability consultant, says, 'No seems to know what these new
law require you to do. Try to find specific information about
the requirements on the Internet and chances are you'll come up
empty handed.'
He has a point. The RNIB (Royal Nationa...
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Posted on June 28th, 2009
Social media and social marketing are a powerful online marketing device to help market your company's products and services. It targets the prospective clients and draws them into a dialogue with you; whether in or out of Las Vegas. It can also help boost traffic to your website or blog. Help you to advertise and broaden your client base. This is how they build the image of a company Many Social Media and Social Marketing Services help in account set up and maintain the existing sites like twit...
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009
If you have ever considered starting a new SEO service company,
there are several steps you can take that will get things moving
in the right direction. I myself started a company this past
year that is already realizing great results. Not only will an
SEO business bring you amazing rewards, but in the process
you'll learn how to get higher ranking for your own web site as
a bonus.
Why SEO? The passion began with my first SEO project for the
Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives; a large privately held fa...
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Posted on June 18th, 2009
The majority of sites designed these days have at least one form. If you are a web designer then you will know that creating a template is essential if you are to be efficient in your work. Many times I have compromised on a forms design due to time restrictions. Below is a template that I use and that is quite flexible in its design. This form allows for any type of input field from a simple textfield to a group of radio buttons. If your quite comfortable with CSS then please feel free to adapt...
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Posted on June 13th, 2009
CSS Margin Properties
SmartCSS ' software is mainly based on the CSS box model. The CSS box model represents every element on a web page which contains four components:
- The element.
- The padding around the element.
- The border around the padding.
- The margin around the border.
The CSS margin properties define the space around the element which includes the padding and the border values.
CSS Border Properties
Margin (margin-top margin-right margin-bottom margin-left)
margin-top (auto *l...
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Posted on June 12th, 2009
Using CSS to create a website can take quite a few attempts to start getting the hang of it. But hang in there, it eventually starts making sense. This article is aimed at the new CSS designer looking to easily create an elastic website that will always fill the screen regardless of the viewers screen resolution.
Over time, and with much experimentation, I've found that a web designer can create a website that will stretch to any resolution being used and still keep everything exactly where it ...
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Posted on June 8th, 2009
What's the first that comes to mind when you walk into a store which is full of clutter and yet you need to find a certain object that's buried among them? If you get the feeling of frustration, then you're normal, but if you're the owner of the place, then you should feel remorse because you now have a frustrated customer. No one likes a messy environment no matter where they are. If anyone thinks otherwise, then they're either lazy or 'eccentric.' The same sentiment goes for any internet surfe...
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Posted on June 7th, 2009
Stylish and accessible forms in CSS
The majority of sites designed these days have at least one form. If you're a web designer then you'll know that creating a template is essential if you are to be efficient in your work.
Many times I've compromised on a form's design due to time restrictions. Below is a template that I use and that is quite flexible in its design. This form allows for any type of input field from a simple text field to a group of radio buttons. If your quite comfortable with C...
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Posted on June 7th, 2009
I am guessing an article on this subject has been posted prior to this one, I should hope a few have! However I hope this will provide a refreshing angle on the subject and branch to some other interesting bits of stuff.
I am sure that anyone who has taken even only a few steps into web development has come across the gigantic force that is Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Even for the most experienced coders, the most popular browser of this age has always been a prominent foot across the path o...
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Posted on June 7th, 2009
There are now loads of places on the Internet where one can access free CSS menu's. But of the many that are available very few suceed in replicating the prehistoric roll-over image menu using javascript image replacement techniques, with only lovely CSS. I have managed to create one that works in both decent web browsers and crap ones (Internet Explorer), view the finished CSS menu.
First I needed to remove all padding and margins from the page:
* { padding: 0em; margin: 0em; }
Then the CSS fo...
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Posted on June 6th, 2009
It seems like everyone has a website with a shopping cart, you'd like to have one as well. Where do you begin? It can be a daunting task to set up a shopping cart. This article presents the five steps you need to go through to a have the smooth installation.
Step 1 - Choosing the Shopping Cart
Begin by researching which shopping cart is provided by your hosting company. While using the shopping cart provided by the hosting company is the easiest route, keep in mind that this product serves a w...
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Posted on June 6th, 2009
Building and maintaining a web site is a lot of work; one of the tools that can make it significantly easier is a dedicated content management system.The server site utilities which are used to manage your site's cascading style sheets in an centralized interface is straightforwardly a content management system. There are various other abilities like upload content, allow visitor creation of contents, and even manage libraries of graphics, affiliate program links, etc., can be seen in sophistica...
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Posted on June 5th, 2009
Social networking has become a very attractive way to communicate with your friends, families, colleagues and loved ones. Social networking sites host free services to search and find long lost friends, interact or communicate with your relatives, post your comments, photos, ideas, music or video, use enticing and useful applications and do many other things that even a face-to-face interaction may not allow. MySpace is one such leading social networking service which offers excellent opportunit...
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Posted on June 5th, 2009
Ideally speaking, web site development must be scalable, portable, easy to maintain and compatible across browsers. This is in tune with the dream of the one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web, Mr Tim Berners-Lee, who visualizes the web as 'a common space' to share, play and socialize. He also suggests building websites in conformity with International web standards to ensure easier accessibility for all users, including people with special needs who are blind or people using hand held device...
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Posted on June 5th, 2009
Good web design is something that can be achieved relatively easily by sticking to a small set of guiding principles and avoiding some very common mistakes. Truly excellent web design skills are born out of years of experience, dedication and plenty of hard-learned mistakes. Fortunately, being truly excellent at web design is not a pre-requisite for building a fantastic website and the lessons learned from those mistakes can be passed on without the hardship. This article contains some of the pr...
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Posted on June 4th, 2009
The CSS mantra is the separation of content and style. The content should be in the HTML and the CSS should take care of how the HTML is displayed on the page. However, most web-designs don't properly separate content and style. The HTML and CSS are there separately, but if you changed the HTML, the styling would fall apart because the CSS relies on elements in the HTML to do it's job properly.
Now this will not matter to anyone putting together a few fixed pages of content which are not going t...
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Posted on June 4th, 2009
when designing multi-columed layout, most of us usually deal with the columns height difference by using background images, or many prefer calling it "faux column".
but not long a go a fellow designer made a great web design tutorial on how to make an equal height two column css layout with a simple javascript.
but his method requires javascript, it's not a bad thing. but i need a solution where no javascript would be required. so, i decided to make myself a css technique to achieve the same web...
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Posted on June 4th, 2009
When I started exploring the design possibilities of the internet back in 1996, NetObjects Fusion was (at that point) a revolutionary WYSIWYG editor that allowed you to place pretty much any components anywhere you wanted on the page. Unfortunately for Website Pros, Inc. Macromedia had also seen the potential in WYSIWYG editors and developed what is arguably the most popular web design tool ever - Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver has managed to keep up with the requirements of the modern day web develop...
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009
CSS SPAM - Out of Control!
Every newer technology has loopholes that draw multitudes of
Spammers. The newest Spam technique on the scene is hiding text
and URL gateways using CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) methods.
More frequently we are finding top listed sites owned or
controlled by SEO and Web Development companies using this
technique.
There are many ways to hide text and links using CSS and it is
seems to be running completely unchecked by the major SE's at
this time. Up to now the search engi...
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009
Many webmasters/designers are now using CSS for layout purposes
on their sites to ensure web current web standards are met. But
with current trends it can be hard to predict the exact look of
a site across the complete range of browsers. Some are flawed
and some have their 'special quirks' when displaying a website.
Designers, being the types that need perfection in their design,
often 'Hack' their CSS code to create a design that 'works'
across browsers or platforms. But is this the way forward...
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009
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One thing that I have learned in over a decade developing web
sites is that the Net is continually changing, and to keep up
you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments
in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and
semantic web design has several benefits: clarity in code,
browser and other web-enabled devices compatibility, seperation
of content and presentation, smaller burden on bandwith, and
better visibility to search engines.
Back in the day, we desig...
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009
Introduction to Web site design - Is Web design important?
Part 1 of 10
Imagine this web page as the tip of a very large iceberg. What you see on screen is actually the smallest part. To be successful on the World Wide Web / Internet takes time, effort and of course money.
Introduction
Deciding to get onto the World Wide Web / Internet today has never been quicker or easier. There are so many options from "do it yourself", Choose a pre-made template or choose from over a million Web designers r...
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009
A lot of clients ask why they need their 'already working perfectly well' website validated. Below is a brief guide to try and answer this in a clear and simple way.
Firstly we should explain what is meant by a validated website.
Put simply, validation is the act of writing and designing a website in as 'clean' a way as possible and testing it against industry standards. It makes use of cascading style sheets (CSS) to format the page layout and text and also cleans up any 'loose coding' which co...
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Posted on June 2nd, 2009
What started as a simple website development has taken a large pie of market share. Let me start with the literal meaning of website development - starting from the baseline, Offshore + Web + Site + Development in simple terms means developing, coding for your website and making web page available on the web and later offshoring your website services. Or you can say, website development means developing a website and making it available on the World Wide Web to promote your product and services ...
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Posted on June 1st, 2009
1. Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website. If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to read by search engines.
2. Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page by search engines. To take advantage of this, you should have your keywords in the page headline. Since the header tag (h1) is quite large, you should format it to make it smaller.
3. Every...
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Posted on June 1st, 2009
If your site is in Google Purgatory, prepare to spend some time suffering.
Google maintains two separate databases of indexed web pages. The main index holds billions of pages, and this where most search results come from. The second is called the "Supplemental index," and searchers will never see those pages unless they put in long and specific keywords that are relevant only to some supplemental index page.
Therefore, don't expect any pages in the Supplemental index to receive any significant ...
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Posted on June 1st, 2009
Here are some simple rules for developing modern accessible web sites. We will just touch on a few of the main rules, as there are too many to cover here, but sticking to these rules will get you off to a good start.
The 3 Click Rule
Unless you are new to web design, you will likely have heard of the Three Click Rule. This rule is recommended based on the way people use web sites, and it helps web designers create sites with intuitive, logical hierarchical structures. It addresses the important ...
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