The following checklist covers all aspects of Section 508. Use this as a guide to ensure your application is in compliance. Continue Reading…
Now that we have the basics of our web page template set up, we need to prepare it for expansion. Here is some final house cleaning that will make it ready for prime time: Continue Reading…
Yesterday, a web designer approached me with a rather common question relating to CSS. He wanted to know why his CSS code looks great in Internet Explorer, but horrid in Mozilla Firefox and even Safari. He had designed a killer website for his company (I must say!) and the only drawback was the problem with cross-browser compatibility. He didn’t understand why he was experiencing these problems because he knew that all of his XHTML and CSS code was valid and he even checked all of his CSS code with the W3C to make sure that it was tested against their standards in CSS development. Continue Reading…
This is probably going to be the most challenging chapter of the whole book, so please pay close attention to the concepts you learn and practice creating your own web pages. As I mentioned in the previous chapter, WYSIWYG editors are an option, but I certainly recommend hand-coding all of the exercises I give you. They will pay off very quickly. Continue Reading…
A while back, I found a very groovy tool that has helped me organize my CSS tremendously by ordering my @Rules, Style Rules, and Properties, standardizing the format and consistencies of line breaks through the document, and compressed my CSS file sizes nearly in half! Continue Reading…
Many of my students frequently ask me for a squeeze page template for them to use on their website. It’s commonly accepted these days that squeeze pages are a great way to promote a single product and to make a conversion quickly and easily. However, a lot of people struggle writing the HTML and CSS required to make their squeeze pages really pop! What I’ve done is put together a valid XHTML page with a great CSS style-sheet that’s easy to read and edit for you to use on your own website. Simply create a header graphic called ‘header.jpg’ and drop it into the images directory. Continue Reading…
I’m sure you’ve all heard about this Web 2.0 craze that is sweeping the Internet by storm. Unfortunately, not very many people are tuning into it as they should, which means that those who understand it are going to have a distinct advantage over those who have no made themselves aware of the new web world. Continue Reading…
I’ve decided to make HTML vs. CSS my first article because I believe that CSS is growing at such a rapid pace that any web designer who is not familiar with designing CSS layouts (rather than HTML tables) will eventually render their skills obsolete. Take this website for example, AmazingDesignSecrets.com, we are devoted to teaching those who want to learn html, graphic design, and web design. If you take a look at any of the code throughout the entire website, you’ll notice that no tables exist on any page—yet you still see centered page with unique alignments and structured shapes and colors. Continue Reading…