Bridal Shower Stationary Suggestions
Bridal shower stationary comes in all different styles to suit the bride's taste whether you prefer casual, formal or somewhere in between. Bridal shower stationary comes in the form of printable blank stationary or it can be fancier.To find stationary that suits all brides-to-be for their shower invitations, the Internet offers one stop shopping for all of your paper and paper product needs. Look for stationary that features vellum overlay, ribbon die-cut, foil-embossed border, and premium paper card stock in a variety of colors. You can locate practically everything from basic elegant white to classic cream to pink, yellow, mauve, and even silver or gold.No longer does bridal shower stationary...
XHTML- Kicking and Screaming into the Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, and in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the rest of the web, written in various flavors of HTML, cease to function any time soon. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why...
All About DVD Part 1: DVD Format
Types of DVD and history of developmentIt's been a long time since DVD became common in our everyday life. However, most people don't seem to know what it is exactly. Answers to questions like "what sort of arcane symbols are printed on disk boxes", "how come DVD is different from CD if they look so similar", "what kinds of DVDs are there" and many others still remain mystery for many users. And instead of making conscious choice they just buy randomly without any knowledge of what exactly they are getting.We will examine DVD in details, along with its history and different types available on the market. DVD-Video will get most attention as it is the most common type of DVDs.What is DVD? Initially...
This is the final installment in the RSS Mania - Understanding RSS Series. In this article we will discover just how to get your RSS Feed up on the web, and what is possible and what is not with an RSS feed.Naming your RSS file - Your file name does not have to be rss.xml You are welcome to name it to whatever your little heart desires, though the .xml extension is kind of important for your editors to know just what file the software is dealing with.Now that you have the file - what do you do with it? Okay first thing is first. Take the file and place it in your Web directory where everyone can get to it. Lets say we named the file "ballchain.xml" and we move it (ftp) to our web directory under the...
How to Style an A to Z Index with CSS
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...
Xhtml - Kicking And Screaming Into The Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, and in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the rest of the web, written in various flavors of HTML, cease to function any time soon. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why...
HTML Font Tips
It is very tempting to use fancy looking fonts when designing a web page. After all, the fancier the font the more attractive it will be to visitors and the more likely they will be to stay at your page once they've gotten there. Actually, the reverse is often true.Most people go to a web page because they are interested in the information that is there, either an article they want to read about something or maybe it's a product or service site that requires them to navigate through a number of pages to find the product or service that they are looking for. The last thing they want to do is have to battle with the font on the page because it is difficult to read.There are several things that make...
Some Practical Ideas For Designing You Own Landscape
Landscape Design Designing your own landscape, can be both exciting and challenging. If you are considering such a project, here are some practical ideas and suggestions. Planning your landscape design is the first and most important step. Take the time to gather the information you will need to make your decisions on the elements you wish to include in your landscape design. Will you want a deck, patio, foot paths, walkways, a pond? What type of plants, trees, flowers, and ground cover will you want to use? You should research books, articles, and landscape design magazines to help you make these decisions. This will pay off in the end by saving you money, time, and frustration, enabeling you end...
The Basics of Search Engine Optimization
Introduction Search engine optimization (SEO) is an online marketing strategy which is used to increase a Web site's visibility to the millions of people who look for information and various services on the Internet with the help of different search engines available on the internet. Search engine optimization helps rank your company/website among the top search results for a given query/keywords. This can dramatically increase traffic to your Web site and establish a Web presence for your practice. Among other things, SEO involves optimizing the page structure and layout of your website and the text that appears on it, as well as gaining links to your website from other websites, to help make it...
Do your customers speak English?
Are you unknowingly restricting your market to more than half of your potential customer base? Are you alienating an important number of your visitors? If, your site is only in English and not translated in other key languages, you undoubtedly are! Did you know that as of 2005, around 300M users accessed the Internet in English, while almost 700M users accessed it in another language? If we were to make a crude assessment, strictly English localized website are loosing 70% of their potential customer base from the start. To be more specific, the top ten languages used in the Internet, are in order, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Italian and Russian...
How To Use Tradeshow Gimmicks To Build Your Business Big!
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...
Automotive Photography and Graphic Arts
1. Introduction:If you have just picked up a camera for the first time, or have been taking pictures for years, the information contained in this guide will ensure that you do not overlook anything as you frame and shoot that picture. Taking your photographs to the next level, by using a few computer tools, no special filters, and free clip art, we will walk you through the steps to create a picture like the one on the cover of this book as easy as 1-2-3.When displaying your vehicle at a show, enthusiasts like yourself pay close attention to every detail down to the shine on the bolts to ensure that the automobile is perfect. The end quality of your pictures is dependent upon your attention...
How to Style an A to Z Index with CSS
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...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
Using CCS to Eliminate Tables
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 web...
Why Do People Need Web Sites?
The procedure requires a creative approach as well. The idea of the web site must be promptly thought over: not so much, but with zest! Not to overdo with the ideas - is key, because when a person enters the site, he needs to find first of all, what he is interested in. Nowadays, Web design is of a great request over the Internet. Web design lies not only in the creation of web pages but also all the content and management is included. This process includes an entire complex of tasks and objectives set before the team, consisting of a web designer, programmer, maker-up, optimizer and other specialists, and depends on the complexity and the specificity of the site. The development of a web site...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
How To Use Tradeshow Gimmicks To Build Your Business Big!
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...
Dress Up Your Website With Fantastic CSS Tricks
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the different ways of implementing style sheets into your site and the basic layout of tags. Now, let's move on to some of the fun ways you can dress up your site with some standard CSS tags.Have you ever been to a website and saw text that appeared to have been highlighted with a yellow highlighter pen? Many sales-oriented sites use this technique to call attention to ad copy they want to stand out.The tag looks like this:< span style= "background-color:yellow" > Text Here < /span >Pretty simple, really. How about sites that remove the underlining from hyperlinks? Think it can't be done? Think again. Here's how to do it:< style type="text/css...
Microsoft and Webmasters
Microsoft and Webmasters Does Microsoft care for Webmasters It's always been a problem with websites appearing exactly the same on different platforms. As a web developer / webmaster it is extremely difficult to make user experiences rich by having the site look the same in any OS / Browser. The biggest problems they have with there famous Internet Explorer browser is security issues and W3C Standards compliance issues. Does Microsoft have a vision of having the world's most popular browser still? Yes but currently IE is dropping it's rate pretty fast as Mozilla and Firefox support CSS2 and PNG Transparent Alpha where's IE does not support. What's really interesting is IE 5 for Mac supports both...
CSS in Flash the Return of Crisp and Legible Fonts
A typical challenge faced by Flash developers like me is getting fonts to look like you want then to. For any project choosing the right font face and size is a process that requires both you and ultimately the client to see eye to eye.In Flash MX and earlier versions fonts were by default anti-aliased, meaning that the edges of the text are smoothed. This is good when dealing with large type but it causes small text to appear blurry. Earlier versions of Flash also had other issues. For instance if one were to realign textfields around other objects fonts might come out of focus (because of positioning), and getting it right could take several tries.More recently with the advent of Flash MX...
CSS Website Design
Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS for short) have slowly but surely become a website design standard over the past few years. It was not that many years ago that people used Frames to position their content across their web pages and Tables gradually replaced this. Many low-end website developers are still very comfortable with Tables, as it 'does what it says on the tin'. However, more and more people are now moving over to CSS, as virtually all the layout options can be achieved using the code. One major problem with CSS is that not all Web browsers produce the same results and it has not been helped in the past by the various browsers employing their own way of interpreting certain CSS conventions...
Why Your Website Needs a Great Navigation System
Traditionally the navigation menu is placed just below the header area or on the left hand side of the web page. Usability studies have shown that web site visitors instinctively look in these areas first.Wherever you decide to place your navigation menu, remember that consistency is important. The most important thing is to place your navigation menu in the same spot on every one of your web pages. If you use an image to represent a navigational button, use the same image and the same color for that image on each page of your website. For example, if you use an image of a green house in the left hand corner of your web page as your "Home" navigational link, use the same green house image in the...
How to create a Myspace layout?
Creating a myspace layout might seem tricky when you think about it but it is actually pretty easy.The only thing you need is basic knowledge in HTML and CSS.It is time start code. Instead of begin the layout with tags such as < HTML >, < HEAD > and < TITLE >, just start with the < STYLE > tag right on instead. This is necessary because has already prepared th basic proprties for you.So we begin with writing < STYLE >. Then we fill in values for class-names and tag-properties. There is already class-names that will be used in the profile code, wether you modify them or not. These are:nametext whitetext12 lightbluetext8 orangetext15 blacktext12 redtext redbtext blacktext10Edit them and then...
Relax Your Muscles with Generic Soma
Generic Soma (Carisoprodol) relaxes muscles and relieves pain and discomfort associated with strains, sprains, spasms or other muscle injuries. Muscle relaxers are for specific muscle injury and pain and should not be used for general body aches and pains.Generic Soma (Carisoprodol) may be taken with food or immediately after meals to prevent stomach upset. Take this as directed. Do not increase your dose or take it more often than prescribed. This medication provides temporary relief and must be used in addition to rest, physical therapy and other measures. Because this medication makes an injury temporarily feel better, do not attempt to lift or exercise too soon.Before taking Generic Soma, you...
Zero Cost Methods To Boost Your Business Marketing And Cut Your Costs Using Your Website
I Offer These Ideas As A Business Website Owner Who Uses ThemThink of this article as a letter from a friend who maintains a website for his own business, and wants to share with you some time/cost-saving methods he employs - at zero cost - to get more value from his website.The Following Tools/Methods Can Make Using Your Site Easier/Less ExpensiveIn considering the resources featured here, you should keep in mind the fact that your ability to use them on your website may be determined to some extent by the type of web hosting package/functions you have purchased from your host. For those whose web hosting packages do not permit the easy use of these tools, I describe the very useful alternative of...
Using External Coding To Improve Search Engine Placement
Do you have lots of JavaScript coding in the header section of your web pages? Do you re-list your CSS styles at the top of every page? Do you have JavaScript coding spread throughout your web pages? If you answered yes to any of these questions your site may be driving away search engine spiders and losing search engine position ranking. As you can imagine search engine spiders have a lot of pages to get through on the web when they are indexing sites. To improve their speed and efficiency search engines program their spiders to give up easily if they have problems with a page or if they have to wade through too much code to find the relevant content. This is one of the reasons why it is so...
Integrating CSS and Restructured Text
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...
A Dozen Techniques to Improve Your Software Online Help
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...
XHTML- Kicking and Screaming into the Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, and in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the rest of the web, written in various flavors of HTML, cease to function any time soon. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
The Importance Of CSS In Web 2.0
There's a lot of hype about CSS and for good reason. CSS provides a fast, clean, efficient and very powerful method of styling websites and so much more. CSS can be used for many different aspects of the web including design and functionality. Various things CSS can be used for include, font styling, web page layouts, expanding menus, roll over effects and so much more. All these things mean CSS has pushed the web into a new era creating a smarter, more efficient internet than we have ever seen before. Dynamic content and CSS styling Dynamic webpage's created using languages such as ASP and PHP work hand in hand with CSS to provide easy to edit webpage's. With multiple CSS files including a master...
How To Improve Conversion Rates
Do you know your conversion rates? Conversion rate is the number of visitors to your site that take the desired action against the total number of visitors in a particular period or time. Research has shown that 60% of websites do not know their conversion rates. Then how do you improve your site's performance if you do not know your conversion rates? What do you take into consideration when making changes to your site's design? What do you do when you have plenty of visitors yet very few of them take the desired action? What do you want your visitors to do? How are they going to do it? What is the next step for your visitor after taking the desired action?These and other questions can easily be...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
You can make it easier for your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed. With a free and easy to install javascript function you can add the (QuickSub) feed button to your webpage in just a few minutes. Let me show you just how easy it is. QuickSub is a javascript mouseover function that produces a list of RSS feed readers that you can use to subscribe to your RSS news feed with one click. You can see it in action on my RSS resource site, just move the mouse over the subscribe link. You should see a list of RSS feed readers. If you click on one of the news reader links it will open up that RSS reader and add this feed to it. You will need the particular news reader installed on your computer for...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
Top 12 Benefits of Using CSS for Web Pages
If you are still designing with tables then you are missing out on a lot of the benefits of cascading style sheets (CSS). Tables were not supposed to be used for designing but unfortunately it has been the standard for a long time.Not any more.1. Separate content from presentation. An external style sheet can contain all the styles for your web site, then if you want to change the content you only have to edit one style sheet. This is great for a web site that contains hundreds or thousands of pages.Imagine if you had to edit each page..it would take you forever.2. Google benefits. Google gives more weight to content closer to the top of your HTML document. Search engines spider the content that...
A Website's Visual Presence
What is the visual presence of a website? Do you get the feeling you are in a discount store or in a stylized, up-scale boutique? Do you see sophistication and elegance? Or, to the contrary, do you see a warehouse sort of look? Simplicity doesn't have to look cheap and low-class. In fact, simplicity can have "good figure" aesthetically speaking, as long as you have logical intellectual hierarchy and good lines.Where should the visual emphasis be? I suggest putting the emphasis on whatever the purpose of the website is. Ask yourself, who or what is the purpose of the website (or online portfolio)? Who or what are you promoting?The website itself (the gears that makes it run) should not compete with...
Web Design is the heart of your online business
Web Design Useful Web Design Resources 08th June 2007 Useful Web design Resources This article is a little different from the rest. It is not intended as a static article but is one that I will be revisiting regularly. My aim is to provide short reviews and links to other sites on the Internet that ... Author: Mark Webster Web Design Tattoos - Tips And Tricks 07th June 2007 Did you know that you can possibly remove your tattoos and piercing manually? There are moments in a life of a person that he wanted to get a tattoo, and some time late in his life would want to remove the tattoo. Someone or something really in the life o... Author: Daniel Les Web Design Website Design - Attract your Traffic with...
Access the Rest of Yourself
Because I have used audio discs for self-hypnosis, I have successfully upgraded the programming in my subconscious mind in several areas. I want to spread the word.Brian Walsh, author of "Unleash your Brilliance" writes, "Some of us spend money and time on maintaining, or even upgrading, our external appearances. Some of us spend money and time on altering our internal attributes. Both are important, aren't they?"There is this story about a man walking down a street. He was approached by a panhandler. "Any spare change sir?" - The man replied, "Change comes from within." Yes, change does come from within. It begins by fine-tuning the core beliefs. To use a computer analogy, it is a disk clean, then...
XHTML Basics - DIV or SPAN? DIV vs SPAN.
These two tags are often used inter-changeably by developers for different reasons, so what are the differences between them? How should they be used to markup web pages? The basic difference between the two is their default behaviour. DIV tags are block-level tags and can be used as containers for other tags. SPAN tags are inline tags and should only contain content. These default behaviours can of course be altered by CSS definitions, but are default in any browser context. As a reference, if you want to align text within these tags use the following CSS attributes; DIV - text-align: left|right|center|justify SPAN - float: left|right DIV tags are also used to define logical divisions of page...
Free Animated Ecard and Free Animated Ecards
Free animated ecards are available from a multitude of Internet sources including business, religious, personal, and non-profit websites. You can find a variety of free animated ecards that address any particular holiday, occasion, time of the year, special event or activity. If you need a free animated ecard to say you are sorry, you love someone, you are thankful or you are celebrating, there are unlimited free animated ecards to express just every human emotion. A free animated ecard is an easy and quick way to send anyone a special thought via the Internet.Free animated ecards have become wildly popular with the ease of Internet functions allowing web users the freedom to receive and send ecards...
How To Use Tradeshow Gimmicks To Build Your Business Big!
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...
Web Design and Multimedia Schools for a New Career
Are you fascinated by the multifaceted world of website design? There is a lot to learn, but the education offered at Web Design and Multimedia Schools can prepare you for developing, designing, and maintaining websites, and for integrating various media into one program. Associate and bachelor degrees are available through many colleges, universities and even online schools, as are graduate degree programs and certificates.Web Design and Multimedia Schools teach basic design principles. You will become aware that the field is continually and rapidly evolving, and that it is essential that you continue to remain current with emerging technologies. The curriculum places a strong emphasis on...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
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...
XHTML- Kicking and Screaming into the Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, and in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the rest of the web, written in various flavors of HTML, cease to function any time soon. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why...
Web Designer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization
From a search engine point of view, the perfect webpage has no graphics, no scripting, no tables...etc but just alot of normal, plain readable text. You can just take it that plain text is the food for search engine spiders. Therefore, the more text you have, the more you will keep the spiders happy. However, from the design point of view, such pages are very boring but the fact is that everyone is more interested in keeping the spiders rather than us happy. The argument is that if search engine spiders cannot find your site, no one will. Based on this philosophy, we witnessed the fall of flash and sites with strong graphics over the years. Many sites that utilized heavy graphics where no longer...
Usability For Older Web Users
According to the 2001 UK census ( the UK now has more people aged over 60 than under 16. It also revealed that there are now 1.1 million people aged over 85. Webcredible recently analysed and compared the results of 16 usability testing sessions - 8 of these sessions were conducted with elderly users (i.e. over the age of 65), and 8 with younger users (i.e. under the age of 40). The 40-minute 'talk-aloud' sessions involved asking participants to find information on a range of government websites. Assigning blame The main finding of our study was that elderly users were more likely to assign blame when using the Internet. Of the 8 elderly participants, 3 appeared to blame themselves for any...
Black Hat SEO Tactics
The search engine optimization industry has exploded into a multi-billion dollar market, creating one of the most cut-throat sectors to come from the dot com boom.Because of the fierce competition in the industry, some search engine optimization firms began using tactics that the search engines have labeled as "black-hat", or "illegal", in the search engine world. The "Big 3" (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) have all issued rules and guidelines listing several of these black-hat tactics. Failure to comply with these guidelines will most likely get you de-indexed, or worse, banned from the search engines.Generally, black-hat is the "intentional deception of search engines" to gain ranking or popularity in...
A Website's Visual Presence
What is the visual presence of a website? Do you get the feeling you are in a discount store or in a stylized, up-scale boutique? Do you see sophistication and elegance? Or, to the contrary, do you see a warehouse sort of look? Simplicity doesn't have to look cheap and low-class. In fact, simplicity can have "good figure" aesthetically speaking, as long as you have logical intellectual hierarchy and good lines.Where should the visual emphasis be? I suggest putting the emphasis on whatever the purpose of the website is. Ask yourself, who or what is the purpose of the website (or online portfolio)? Who or what are you promoting?The website itself (the gears that makes it run) should not compete with...
Getting Started with HTML
The basic language of the internet is html. If you can do crossword puzzles, if you can write a report for your teacher or boss, you can be creating web pages in a matter of minutes.Even if you're not a writer or not a 'techie'. It's sort of like your first date. Terrifying to think about, but not nearly as bad as you thought when it's over.The truth is that you can create your first webpage with just eight words enclosed in symbols.That's right! The following words, with each enclosed in symbols, make a complete usable web page.-------------------------------------------htmlheadtitle/title/headbodydon't enclose this one, it's your content- hi (:/body/html...