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Love Hate is how I taught myself to remember the order. The acronym for the order (LVHA) just wasn't terribly easy to remember on its own. It didn't spell anything, or really give a sensical meaning to me. But Love Hate works. So what is LVHA?1. a:link 2. a:visited 3. a:hover 4. a:activeLVHA is the order you should designate your link rules in the CSS so they work together. The way that it is designed to work in CSS, each selector has a specificity. So, just like anything else in the cascade, if there are two selectors that are both applied to one element, the one with the higher specificity is applied. Put them in the wrong order, and you could end up with a page that isn't showing your style...

Tables used to be the in thing when it came to designing web sites. As with many other things though, new techniques and methods standards are bound to emerge with time. When once tables were seen in most web pages, some experts now suggest that tables should be thrown out of the window. In simple words, tableless web design is basically a method whereby page layout control is achieved without the use of HTML tables. Instead, text and other elements on a page are arranged using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). This language is the brainchild of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). It was designed in such a way as to improve web accessibility as well as to make use of HTML for semantic purposes...

People attend industry tradeshows for numerous reasons. Whether you go and set up as an exhibitor or sign up to visit the vendors, everyone has their own motives for checking out the show. Interestingly enough, some individuals just want to get away from the office for a while and make it a "working" vacation! This is true for exhibitors as well as buyers, either way it becomes a business write off!!I've attended industry shows as a buyer and as an exhibitor off and on over the last twenty years. In the beginning most of my focus was towards the Awards & Engraving arena. Through the years it became quite obvious that this was a rather small industry, as compared to some "sister" type industries...

If you'd like to do business on the Internet, launching a quality web site is an absolute must. Learning how to design your own web site can be a little intimidating. However, there is a wealth of free information available on the Internet to assist you.The best way to learn is by doing. Take the first step and begin researching. Once you understand the basics of web design, you can begin experimenting with some more advanced coding techniques.A great place to start is HTML Goodies: the years, I have received many questions in regard to web design. Below, are some of the most frequently asked questions I receive on a regular basis:Question: I am in the process of designing my first web page and am...

The 800-pound search engine gorilla is at it again, shaking things up in the virtual world. This time it's extending the reach of Adwords -its billion dollar contextual advertising system -to mobile devices.Google's new Mobile Ads system delivers two short lines of text and a third line containing a destination URL (and an optional "call" link that dials the advertiser's business) to mobile phones and wireless PDAs. The text-based ad can be used to target mobile users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany.From an advertiser's perspective, Mobile Ads is used in conjunction with Adwords. So, when someone searches Google from a PC the advertiser's Adwords ad appears, but when...

Those who are not familiar restructured text may initially bemoan it's lack of power and flexibility when compared to XHTML, but as often the case in life, initial appearances can be deceiving.Although the use of CSS for styling and presentation is "best practice" in XHTML, it is not yet mandatory, which allows anyone with knowledge of such "deprecated" tags as "align=center" or "font", to illegally wreck havoc with your beautiful CMS-based site.Outside of a mandatory 2 month course in basic XHTML and CSS, one solution which desperate webmasters have often deployed is to force site editors and contributors to work with WYSIWYG editors configured to strip out any and all illegal tags. Not only is...

Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...

If you are a web designer or a webmaster, website design is one of the most important tasks you do. In designing a site, you need to create a design that is easy for users to use, is compatible with different systems, and is search engine friendly. Making a site that is user friendly: In some ways, creating a user friendly site is just common sense - other aspects are not so obvious, though. Obviously, you'll want to make the text easy to read, the navigation links easy to find, etc. Here are a few other tips: Put contact information on every page. Make it obvious what you want the user to do after reading a page.. Make it easy for the user to reach your homepage from any other page Making a site...

I've always been taken with the way that the BBC styles their A-Z index using a simple list and CSS. However, because they use pixels to set the dimensions of each list item, the design breaks when you increase the text size.It's always been important to me not to break the browser's ability to resize text and so I thought I'd have a go at creating an A to Z index along the same lines that doesn't break when you resize your text.The code is actually pretty straight forward. Here's the CSS first: #azindex { background: #75B9D0; float: left; margin: 5px 0 20px 10px; padding: 0px 5px 15px 5px; width: 520px; } * html #azindex { padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; width: 490px; }#index { font...

Many Web pages today are poorly written. Syntactically incorrect HTML code may work in most browsers even if it doesn't follow HTML rules. Browsers employ heuristics to deal with these flawed Web pages; however, Web-enabled wireless devices (such as PDAs) can't accommodate these hefty Web browsers. The next step in HTML's evolution comes in the form of XHTML (eXtended Hypertext Markup Language), which is basically a combination of HTML and XML.HistoryAs with XML, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was the force behind XHTML's development. When XML was introduced, a two-day workshop was held to discuss whether a new version of HTML in XML was needed. The answer was a resounding "Yes."The first W3C...

Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...

There is practically no website without at least a form in one of its pages. Forms are useful to collect data from the website visitors and users. Once the user submits the form to the server, a form processing script must get the form data, validate that the user input matches the expected format for each field (e.g: email address field must be a string of text with the format of a valid email address) and process this information as desired. The script may save it into a database, send it by email or just do some processing with it and display the result. Validating the user input is essential to prevent malicious users from damaging your site.A form definition in html starts with the form tag...

April's birthstone, the diamond, is one of the most popular gemstones, and part of the reason is the ongoing belief that it passes on remarkable powers to its wearer. People believe that some stones and minerals are imbued with special powers. Certain months of the year have become associated with certain stones and minerals, hence these stones have been called "birthstones," and you don't have to have been born under the month of that stone to enjoy its benefits.Everyone treasures the diamond. There is a reason it is prized as the stone in special items of jewelry, such as engagement rings. This same reason is why we call the 75th anniversary of anything the "diamond anniversary." April's...

"1. Write down a very clear description of the purpose of the website before you begin any work on it. Most people skip this step because they think it's obvious, but trust me, it's important and your main purpose will make a HUGE difference in how it should be coded. 2. Stay objective. I know it's tempting to fall madly in love with your new virtual 'baby', especially if you built pieces of it yourself. But beware... On that path there be dragons. I once had a client who built her entire website by herself. She was very proud of her baby, however it was not converting very well and she was getting very few clients from it. I showed her what needed to be done to fix her conversion problem, but in...

The buzz word "standards" may cause an eyeball-rolling response, but without standards, we would have to buy specific media to work with our DVD, VCR and music player. Remember the software buying days, when you had to look for compatibility in terms of Mac versus Windows? Imagine having to do that with Web pages. This Web page is for Macs only ... this one is for Windows. Thanks to W3.org, a body that sets recommendations for HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and other markup languages, we don't have that issue.Some sites, however, do look better in Internet Explorer than in Mozilla or Firefox. That's because such sites use an Internet Explorer-specific markup language that is not standard. Let me...

There are several main reasons why putting your software manual on-line is necessary. It makes your web-site attractive for search engine crawlers and therefore brings you targeted traffic from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engines. A good online manual makes your product serious and credible. Moreover, if a user faces difficulty using your software and asks for technical support, you may easily resolve the issue by referring that user to a certain page of your online help. Simply give the page's URL. With just one click the user will see screenshots and explanations which will help them to settle the case. Many software vendors, from large companies to independent...

Every web designer is familiar with the HTML programming language, which stands for Hypertext Markup Language. The language has been in use since the advent of cyberspace, and although it will probably always be used, it is already being supplemented by newer, more versatile versions of HTML. The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML, reformulated in XML. XHTML family document types are all XML-based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents. Unlike HTML, which focuses on describing how data or text is supposed to be displayed, The XML language instead...

People attend industry tradeshows for numerous reasons. Whether you go and set up as an exhibitor or sign up to visit the vendors, everyone has their own motives for checking out the show. Interestingly enough, some individuals just want to get away from the office for a while and make it a "working" vacation! This is true for exhibitors as well as buyers, either way it becomes a business write off!!I've attended industry shows as a buyer and as an exhibitor off and on over the last twenty years. In the beginning most of my focus was towards the Awards & Engraving arena. Through the years it became quite obvious that this was a rather small industry, as compared to some "sister" type industries...

Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...

Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...

Fashion magazines target people every day with lists and charts telling them the latest trends and techniques to look better, skinnier, smarter, where to buy the hippest clothes or the latest shoes! If you're a woman, you are probably bombarded more often than you like, and if you're a man, you may not get the information that you really want to know! Due to the glut of information available, most people know the obvious things to do to look elegant or well groomed, such as getting a good haircut or wearing certain brand name clothes. However, this may lead people to overlook some simple, basic things that can be done RIGHT NOW to add that subtle flair and polish to your everyday look! Renu Dalal...

MySpace is a social networking web site which offers a network of personal profiles, blogs, friends, groups, music photos and videos. This network is both interactive and user-submitted. MySpace is reportedly the fifth most popular website in English, and also in top ten of the most popular websites in any language. Its popularity in the United States ranks it among the top five websites, and it is known to have topped the charts quite often. MySpace has become very influential of the popular culture of our times, and it receives about eighty percent of all visits to online social networking websites. If you have a MySpace profile, but you are displeased with it because it basically looks like...

Nowadays, when everybody is interested in getting the highest rankings possible for their sites with the search engines, it seems that the era of tables-based web sites is getting closer and closer to its end. CSS programming appears to hold the upper hand in this race for SEO, and it gains more ground as its popularity increases. What is CSS? Cascading Style Sheet is a web tool that can be utterly necessary if you want to give a professional, qualitative look to your site. It is recommended by W3C, who manages the standards for the Internet, in order to add style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing, padding, alignment, etc.) to web documents. The style sheet is more and more used presently due to its...

A class is the blueprint from which individual objects are created. In Java, a class is used to show a set of like items. Here is an example of a hyper link going to a site using a class: Elite Web Strategies a:link { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff } a:visited { color: #0000ff; background-color: #ffffff } a:hover { color: #0000ff; background-color: #ffffff } a:active { color: #ff0000; background-color: #ffffff } So what is each part used for? * "a:link" will specify what the hyperlink looks like on the page. * "a:visited" will specify what the hyperlink looks like once it has been visited (clicked on). * "a:hover" shows what the hyperlink will look like when hovered and * "a:active...

10th wedding anniversary invitations tell your friends and family that you would like them to join you in celebrating the first significant milestone of your marriage. A 10 year wedding anniversary is monumental as it marks the first decade of your life-long commitment to one another. This is an opportunity for people to see the two of you all "grown up". The 10th wedding anniversary invitations at Discount Wedding Invitations serve as the first indication to your friends and family that you are celebrating in pure style! There is an element of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) appeal since you have full say in the design of the card. You are in contact every step of the way with the design team to ensure...

We use this document for checking our results after any HTML cutting. I hope that it'll help for new and experienced developers. Structure and Visualization - Do not use <font> element. - Move arrangement attributes (align, valign, width, height) to CSS. - Do not use tables except showing table data. Using tables for visual formatting is acceptable in complex situations only. Max table nesting can not be great than 3. - Move attribute "background" to CSS. - Design of input fields and buttons must be written as class in CSS. - Style table must be written as external file and linked using <link> - All images related to design (not content) move to block with style {background...

Have you ever received an email in which the formatting has beenlost and all the lines run together? Did you try to decipher it? Not likely. Delete. Email recipients read with one finger on the delete key. Oneclick and your email is gone. Internet users surf the Web withtheir finger poised on the mouse button. One click and they'regone. As a web site owner or ezine publisher, you must have goodcontent, but to keep your customers from clicking away or hittingthe delete key, you must strive to make their online readingexperience as easy as possible. Reading online is about 20% slower than reading from print and alot harder on the eyes. And although people browsing the Web arelooking for information...

How would you like to have a column on the left side of your Myspace profile in which you could place anything you like? Even better, what if this column was never covered when your viewer's browser window is smaller than the Myspace layout "grid"? Well the solution is much simpler than you might think, and I am going to give it to you right now. I'm not going in depth into the workings of CSS or the Myspace structure. There are a lot of great CSS tutorial sites out there to learn the deeper and more complex aspects of modifying your Myspace layout and Myspace background. Just type Myspace tutorials into Google. Here, I am just going to give you the code and brief explanations of what it does. First...

Building The Perfect Porch For Your Home By So, you're thinking about adding a new Porch to your home and looking for the best advice and designs? Congratulations! Keep reading, all will be revealed. There are many great reasons to add a new Porch to your home. You may have not considered them all. Here are the main ones: You want to improve the visual entrance to your home, internally and externally. Increase the value of your home Create more space and more light Provide your home with the added security of a second door Cut energy bills - keep warmth in Some people have found additional uses too as Porches can make great storage areas for shoes, coats and in some cases even tropical plants...

Does it really matter? Specifically, this article talks about the colors on a website. Colors are sometimes taken for granted by some web designers when they are creating a site. But mind you, colors may just be one of the factors that can attract or distract a visitor for a website. It plays a considerable impact on the visitor's decision to browse or exit from the site. If you already have an existing site, ask people to describe the feel of your site's color, design and overall appearance. Through this survey you can get a general feedback for your site. The site should have the artistic identity of the designer but at the same time pleases the target visitors. Branding, the strategy to create...

If you haven't heard of CSS, it's short for Cascading Style Sheets. I'm not going to go through what it is. There are many free articles and resources about CSS out there in the wild wild web. Instead, I'm going to share with you why I decided to switch to a CSS based design. I've known about CSS for quite awhile now but I used it minimally on my sites. Mainly to control the default font used in my web pages and also to define certain styles that I seem to use over and over again. I never gave much thought about using CSS to it's greatest potential. I guess it was because I was already good at making web sites the way I made them, i.e. using tables. I didn't want to have to learn a totally new way...

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has opened up tremendous possibilities for improving web site designs, web page layouts and adding new features. The HTML code can be made shorter, cleaner and simpler by CSS resulting in faster loading of web pages, and making them more accessible to search engines. Here I am narrating my experience with only one part of CSS - using it to eliminate tables. If you look at a traditionally designed web page, you are likely to find number of tables in the layout. Tables were earlier used only for displaying information in a tabular form. But web site designers soon started using tables for other applications such as showing images, graphics and other decorations. My own...