Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Are you looking for a good example of what not to do when designing your web site? Many survey sites are perfect examples of many of the things that can be done incorrectly so as to really annoy the visitors to your site so that they tell everyone how bad your site is.
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
On the fourteenth reference page on CSS2.1 I cover just one setting but a very important one – display. This is the one that determines how each element in your page will be displayed and therefore can have a dramatic effect on the overall appearance of the page. Display Controls
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
Some people include form fields in their web page without enclosing those fields inside a form. In some cases doing so will even pass validation. What it fails though is accessibility since if the form field is in the HTML and not in a form there is no way for people without JavaScript to use [...]
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Some people just write “HTML” that produces a result that works in the browser that they use. Some people make sure that their HTML passes the validator even if they have to generate the invalid bits with JavaScript in order to do it. In this article we look at reasons why just writing code that [...]
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
The thirteenth page of my original CSS reference covers the interface controls. These are the ones that show your visitor where on the page they will be interacting with if they use their mouse or keyboard. Interface Controls
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
CSS3 adds more ways of specifying what styles to attach to what parts of your content by providing additional ways of matching against parts of attributes. New Attribute Selectors
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
With CSS3 you can now embed fonts that will actually work across all modern browsers. Unfortunately though there are still a few issues so that it still doesn’t work as well as it ought to. Embedding Fonts
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
The twelfth page of my original CSS reference doesn’t cover how to do layout tables with your CSS but it does cover how to style the tabular data tables you placed in your HTML. Table Controls
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Just what is it that your web site is intended to achieve? It might be intended to sell products or perhaps the idea is to earn income from advertising on pages where you provide useful information. Whatever your actual end goal is you really need to keep it always in mind. Too many people thinking [...]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Continuing with listing my original CSS reference pages, this eleventh page covers how to style lists. List Controls
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Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Unfortunately with the way cookies work there is no guaranteed way of ensuring that you keep the cookies you want and discard the rest without manually updating them. You should be able to control what types of cookies you are saving though. Cleaning up Cookies
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
CSS now provides a method of applying shadows directly to text that works in most browsers. Text Shadow
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