Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Simple Logo Creation with CSS

If you haven’t used CSS to style your web pages before then you may want to start out by applying some simple CSS to parts of your page to change the way those page elements look. In this tutorial I look at how you can make some text take on a new appearance by adding [...]

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Changing Background Colours

There are two ways to define the appearance of a web page. The old way is using HTML tags and attributes that were added to early HTML specifications in order to provide limited ability to affect appearance of the page. The better way is to use a stylesheet which is the way that it was [...]

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Validate Your Code

Ensuring that the code that you write for your HTML and style sheet code complies with the standards is extremely important if you want to ensure that your page will display correctly in all browsers and be usable to those who for one reason or another do not use the same browser as you prefer [...]

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Internet Explorer Duplicate Character Bug

It seems that every time you create a web page you find yet another bug in the way that Internet Explorer fails to process the page correctly. This short article explains the cause of the duplicate character bug and suggests several different ways to make minor modifications to your page so that it will work [...]

Monday, June 9th, 2008

“The Ultimate CSS Reference”

I was extremely fortunate this week to be able to review this excellent book by Tommy Olsson and Paul O’Brien. I rarely give the maximum marks when I review anything but this book definitely deserves it.
“The Ultimate CSS Reference”

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Using Custom Bullets for Your Unordered Lists

The basic difference between ordered and unordered lists is that ordered lists use a different “bullet” on the front of each entry with values that have some sort of ordering to them (such as A, B, C, D or I, II, III, IV) while unordered lists display the same bullet on the front of each [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Adapting to Web Standards

The second of the two New Rider books I received is on web standards. This book covers the reasons for applying web standards to your page, how to apply standards to your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server side processing, as well as containing a couple of case studies that show how standards are applied in [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Stylin’ With CSS

I received several books for review this last week and since the books usually take so long to reach me, I usually try to review them as quickly as I can after I receive them.
This is the first of two books that I received together, both from New Riders. This particular book is filled with [...]