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Evolution of HTML and CSS in the Modern Era

March 2nd, 2011

Everyone is on familiar terms regarding the significance of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & the use of Hypertext Markup Language in web development. Few advantages of using this language when building a website are mentioned below: Hypertext Markup language is the simplest web based languages known till date for creating web pages. HTML pages when embedded with CSS are extremely search engine friendly and that is the reason they are being popularly used by several service providers all over the world. HTML pages when embedded with CSS shorten the code and as well ensure that your web page gets loaded comparatively faster.... Read More

Do You Need To Redesign Your Website?

February 23rd, 2011

Introduction Your website might be the most aesthetically pleasing piece of work on the Internet, but if Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has not been taken into account during the design phase, you might need to totally redesign your entire website. This might come as a shocker to you especially if people tell you how cool your site looks or if you win design awards. You might also need a redesign if your website’s interface has not changed for many years. It might give people the impression that you do not care about staying current. A website that looks like it is from... Read More

Is there a perfect web design width?

January 29th, 2011

It’s hard for me to accept that visitors have the final say in how websites look. I like my designs to step into the world the way I envisioned them, but that’s just not possible on the web. People pop in with different sized monitors set to different color depths and resolutions using different browsers with different window sizes. There are way too many variables that web designers have no control over. So I tend to stick with fixed-width layouts, a 960px web design width in particular. It reduces the effects of the visitor x-factor and it’s just about perfect for any... Read More

The Ultimate Hand-Coding Toolbox

March 27th, 2010

Text editor A good text editor is the heart of the hand-coding toolbox. You could use notepad or whatever plain text editor is bundled with your operating system, but there’s really no reason to settle. There are plenty of free alternatives with features to make hand-coding faster and easier. Windows – Notepad++ Hands-down the best editor for Windows. With syntax highlighting, auto tag completion, code folding, and much more, Notepad++ is a lightweight program with everything you need to code XHTML and CSS. Make sure you grab the TextFX plugin (built into newer versions) and the Explorer plugin (a nice file browser)... Read More

Optgroup element to group select options

October 18th, 2009

Sometimes it is useful to group the options of an HTML select element. Many developers use extra option elements and non-breaking spaces to create the visual appearance of hierarchical options, but there is another way: the often forgotten optgroup element. To create a group of options, wrap them in an optgroup element. To give the group a label, use the label attribute. Here is a simple example: Read More

Awesome Resources to Test Cross Browser Compatibility of Your Website

September 8th, 2009

When there are many browsers available for the users to surf the internet, it becomes evident for you to check the Cross Browser Compatibility of your website. Different people use different operating systems and browsers and you cannot control their wish to surf your website on one particular browser, just because your website does not look well on it. Though among many available browsers, Mozilla and I.E are the most used browsers around the world. But still while designing a website web designers make it sure to check the browser compatibility of the website in all browsers. To rescue the web designers... Read More

Center and Middle Alignment for a Website using CSS

May 31st, 2009

Different websites have different align position in the browser. Like top-centered, middle-centered and often left-top position. This is tutorial will show you how to align website to any part of the screen. I think i will be helpful for beginners. Read More

Simple CSS position drop text shadows

May 10th, 2009

We have many major browsers like Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Safari and SeaMonkey. I am really tired of using different CSS hacks and code for each of these browsers. So I want to offer you one universal CSS code which will help us to make shadows for text. This is a simple example of Creating Cross Browser Compatible CSS Text Shadows. We will not use Images, only clear CSS code which work for all browsers. Let’s create xhtml code: 1 2 3 4 Cross Browser Compatible CSS Text Shadows Cross Browser Compatible CSS Text Shadows I do not... Read More

Simple CSS drop text shadows

May 6th, 2009

This is an example of Creating Cross Browser Compatible CSS Text Shadows. We will not use Images, only clear CSS code which work for all browsers. Each browser uses its methods, so we need to create styles for each browser. Let’s start with default xhtml code which we will use for our example. Read More

Test Websites In Various Internet Explorer Versions

April 12th, 2009

In my opinion, each xhtml coder needs software for testing web-pages for various Internet Explorer versions . If you use standard methods and install all IEs, then one cannot guarantee the quality of work of the web-pages. Here is the tester I have found for myself: IE Tester IETester is a free Web Browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8, IE7, IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. But this soft has small bugs. Known problems and limitations : The Previous/Next buttons are not working... Read More

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