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Browser "Safe" Fonts
Browser "Safe" Fonts By Shruti Gupta
Fonts make a big difference to the look and experience of the
website. Usage of fonts requires sense of aesthetics and
discretion. We have the liberty to use any font we want in an
image but when we specify the fonts for the text on a web page,
we need to ensure that we use only 'browser safe" fonts.
Browsers support TrueType fonts and all operating systems come
with sets of standard TrueType fonts that have been
preinstalled. These preinstalled TrueType ...
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Is CSS2 Hurting Your Link Building Efforts?
While working on an email link building campaign for an Arizona website design company, I received a reply from a potential link partner as follows:
"Well you're using an internal iframe so the place your links are don't have a good Google PR. No thanks..."
I knew exactly what he was talking about, but he was gravely mistaken. The problem was that our client was using CSS2 and a div tag to display the content of their website design directory in a stylesheet generated scroll box.
To webmasters ...
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How to Create an Enjoyable Web Page Design
Novice and professional designers alike ' you may probably be
skilled enough of any one or all of the techniques in creating a
Web page and designing them. However, not all designs, even
those made by authorities in the field, prove to be enjoyable
and entertaining enough for the users. This is a fact that we
hope does not irk some of our design enthusiasts and discourage
them from honing their skills.
In terms of honing your skills in Web design, here are several
pointers that will give you a ...
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Understanding CSS
In the good old days of the web tables were an essential requirement for creating a webpage. The first thing in laying out a webpage was to create a table. Table was then further divided into cells. Using different combinations of border and shading a number of effects could be created. But the tales and cells also created confusion and messy websites. But with advent of CSS tables can finally be replaced.
If you have been using tables in the past you will appreciate how relieveed we are by ...
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7 Benefits of HTML Validation
You may not bother with html validation or writing simple and
clean code when designing your web site. Later you may find your
site is slow loading, appears incorrectly in the main browsers
and does not rank well for the major search engines.
Now there are sites that still do rank well even though the html
code has many errors. This is because most of the current major
browsers are still very forgiving of html mistakes, however
future browsers will become more html compliant as the ...
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Do's and Don'ts in Web Design - part 1 (design)
Do use a consistent look and
feel Your site should stand out as a whole. Use
the same look and feel for all the pages at your site. This way
your visitors have a sense of recognition when they visit
various pages. Using stylesheets makes it much easier to
maintain the look and feel of numerous pages.
Don't use dark
backgrounds Dark backgrounds tend to make text
less readable. So avoid dark colors or dark backgroundimages. If
you do need them, use a nonserif font for the text (like ...
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How to build a search-engine friendly website
A lot of hype is going around about search engine optimization and not all that has been said is true. What is true is that seo starts with creating a search engine friendly website. This means the website must be free of errors and constructed in a way that search engines like. There is a lot that a web-designer needs to know, the basics and some tricks are covered in this article.
The construct
Building a website starts with building the construct or also called the prototype. This prototype ...
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10 Ways To Increase Your Free eBook Downloads!
1. Anticipate the objections your visitors might have about your
free ebook offer. You should research your target audience's
needs and wants.
2. Allow your visitors to feel good about themselves by giving
them compliments. If they feel good, they will also feel good
about downloading your ebook.
3. Tell your visitors the emotional and logical reasons why they
should download your free ebook. It can be the goals they'll
acomplish, positive feelings, etc.
4. Publish a list of respected or famous ...
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15 Creative Ways To Make Money With eBooks!
1. Allow other e-zine publishers or web site owners to republish
small nuggets or excerpts of information from your ebook with
your byline or ad included.
2. Make extra profits from selling monthly updates of your
ebook. You could also back end sell the extra never released
chapters of your e-book.
3. Give away a free ebook and then give people an option of
buying the paid version of the ebook. Also let others give away
the free version of your ebook.
4. Divide your ebook content into reports ...
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WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE eBOOK?
Many of you think that the ebook is just digital information.
You think that it's no other then just book which doesn't have
any shipment costs, that it's developing price is zero. And you
think that this is its purpose ' zero cost?
If you were thinkig so ' you were TOTALLY WRONG.
Among the above factors, the ebook is also something more. Just
because it's digital product such as software it can be modified
every second via the Net. Just think about the shareware
software ' 99% of it has ...
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10 Quick Tips on How to Create, Distribute, and Profit
Free eBooks are a powerful viral marketing tool that can
literally provide you with an entire network of people who
promote your business, absolutely free. Here are a few quick
tips on how to benefit from your free eBook ...
1. Provide Real Content.
This is the most basic tip, but it's vitally important. A simple
"click" of the mouse is all it takes for someone to delete your
eBook. Don't offer a simple sales pitch; provide your reader
with valuable information. This will both capture his ...
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Designing know hows
What is the purpose of a good design? A good design is like a
logo. It stands for what the company is for. In getting a
design, one should consider how it will be of use. It can be
made of more than one type, depending on the preference of a
company, as long as the concept is still the same. The simpler
the design, the better. With the evolution of graphic designs
came the use of more complex designs to create and to choose
from. Special effects are now being used in answer to the
advancement ...
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Website Design and Development Tips for Small Businesses - Associations
Web design and web development are two major mainstays of a company's business prospects online! If a web site's design and development is poor or not regularly maintained according to what the industry demands, the potential for online business will plummet to financial loss. Right from the basic logo design to the detailed graphic design of the respective site, a company's appeal all depends upon the quality of web design and development.For smaller businesses, this is even more important, ...
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Separating Presentation, Content and Structure
The overall quality of the website quantifies its worth. It must
not only be unique, flashy or overwhelming, it should also be
functional, entertaining. It is not only there for display. Its
there for a purpose and it should serve that purpose. There are
three elements that make up the website 'it's the presentation,
content and structure. They are intertwined with each other to
create an awesome website.
The very reason why separation of presentation is necessary is
to simplify any alteration ...
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Web Development Terminology - or How to Know What Your Design
Hosting and Domain: Most people do know about web hosting and
domain names are these days, but every now and then some
confusion might arise as to whether they are independent or one
in the same. Basically, your web hosting is the space you "rent"
on the internet to place your website. Your domain name, also
called your URL is www.your_website.com. Some hosting companies
will offer the purchase of your domain name at the same time you
purchase your hosting account. Often times however, you ...
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17 Tips to Plan a Website
Everyone wants one.
Everyone wishes they knew how to make one.
SOME have them but don't know what to do with them.
The very few know *what* to do and *how * to do it ... and have
success!
What am I talking about?
************************* Setting up a Website
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Some of you might have no idea of all the things you need to
think about before you ever put a website online.
Remember the Kevin Costner movie where it was said, "Build it
and they will come!"? That worked like ...
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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 ...
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Systems Using Google's Mini Search Appliance At Risk
Google, the number one search engine used by Internet users,
provides web developers and users certain tools for customizing
searches to the user's liking. While Google's reputation is
nearly impeccable and its products are generally thought of as
"safe", a problem first reported on June 10, 2005 causes some
concern over whether such blind faith is wise.
According to The Metasploit Project, in August 2005, a patch had
to be issued by Google to fix security flaws in its Mini Search
Appliance. ...
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The Best and Easiest Google-Friendly Change to Your Web Site
No matter who you are or how much you pay for web site advertising, free search engine traffic is probably responsible for a big part of your business. So why make your web site so hard for search engines to figure out?
Luckily, it seems like in the recent years people have paid attention to SEO, moved their sites over to CSS, abolished "table" and "font" HTML tags, started using the H1 tag around their titles... and in general, moved the main content of their site as close to the top of ...
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How to Create Columns with Div's
When we at Ecommerce Partners
(http://www.ecommercepartners.net) started using div's rather
than table for web page layout, the most daunting experience for
me was how to create columns using div's. So, here is the
solution for all those website developers who are struggling to
use div's for web page layout.
The div tag can be defined as the division in a web page. It is
a block level element. This implies that the default behavior of
div's is to stack up one above the other. This serves ...
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CSS Content
CSS Content? Using tables within the content of your page is a major no-no, the whole intent and purpose of CSS is to control the style of your page elements, this is done using an external stylesheet.
An external Stylesheet?
External stylesheets give you the control of your whole website from one single file rather than trying to edit your whole websites CSS using global search and replace or by opening each page individually.
If you are new to this HTML malarkey then welcome, you have just ...
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Can Invisible Text in CSSs Slip Under Search Engine Radar?
Iâ''m literally inundated with questions on the subject of invisible text & hosting so in
I thought Iâ''d debunk some myths and give you the facts straight up.
What is invisible text? Invisible text is the body text thatâ''s the same or similar color to the background. You know, the stuff you can very easily see on a page if you press Ctrl-A or highlight everything on the page with your left mouse button.
Will invisible text hurt your search engine rankings? Undoubtedly! If you attempt ...
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Building Printer Friendly Pages
Your site looks like it's working perfectly. You've tested it
with several different browsers under various resolutions. The
HTML complies with the standards and your CSS is impeccable.
Even if all of the above statements are accurate, everything
still might not be the way it should. We often design for
screens and blissfully forget that we need to take other devices
into account as well. It's surprising to notice that while
printers are very widely used, a large part of designers seem ...
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Printing Your Website the Right Way
There are so many techniques and methods available to create a
user friendly website. The first one is by using a server side
routine or print stylesheets. The print version may strip out
images and navigation that lose their meaning on the printed
page and may show the page in a single column using a dissimilar
font with a different size.
When there is no printable version or the printable version
includes ads or other settings, you can use stylesheets. With
CSS awareness plus some web ...
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How To Style Your Text With CSS
Styling text with CSS is really simple. We can define colors, underline it, make it bold, define the font etc etc.
We will start with some basics.
First we define the html where we will be working with.
This is the text
1. Colorize your text
We can select the P tag and add some styles to it.
p {
color:red;
}
Now our text will turn red. You can define any color code your want or choose one of the 16 standard color names. The color names are: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, ...
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Why I Switched to A Tableless Design
Since I made the switch 6 months ago to a tableless design on my
main site, I've noticed some interesting things:
* My search engine rankings have dramatically improved * My
bandwidth usage has dropped about 50-75% * I can now make
changes to the look and feel of my site easily by just changing
the one file, the stylesheet.
Let's look at why my search engine rankings improved. Now that I
have less un-indexable code on my pages, the search engines can
now spider my site quicker. Less code, more ...
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How to use stylesheets
div align="justify"> Web sites can contain hundreds of pages,
even thousands. You have spent your time making a look and brand
for your web site, using different font sizes, colours, margins
etc all within each web page.
Later on you decide that you want to change the background
colour of the website, and then realise that you will have to
edit every single web page and change the background color in
the body tag....... This is
where stylesheets come into play, by simply putting all the ...
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The benefits of using CSS
With CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, there are many advantages over plain HTML. First there is the ability quickly align content or to move an object (whether text, images, or animation) to another place on the site. Second, is speed. CSS files are only downloaded once and all the tags that were used in the HTML are now called from the CSS file, making for faster loading times and more viewing pleasure. Third, the layout and position of items can be fixed across the entire site, something that ...
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Design A Spider Friendly Site
To be successful in the search engines it's important to design your web site with the spiders in mind. Using the latest in web page design is not generally the best way to go. Spiders don't view web pages like humans do, they must read the HTML in the page to see what it's about. Below you will find tips on how to best design your web site with search engines in mind.
Do not use frames at all. Some search engines cannot spider web pages with frames at all. For the other search engines that ...
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Constructing Professional Search Engine Friendly Web Pages Part II
What makes for a great webpage? Part II
You are about to embark on a journey into SEO hell. I have tried my best to keep this as simple as I can but it is about to get confusing. We'll try to cover three major points today. Enjoy the reading!
3. Your Menu System
Forget the Flash, JavaScript, PHP, and ASP stuff you have gone out to learn to create flashy drop down or glittering menus or image swaps. That's far too much coding. We want to keep the page's code down to a minimum. Beside you could ...
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Your New Website is Inside
Today's Internet is a lot different than it used to be. With new developments such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web standards, building websites the same old way just won't cut it anymore. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) creates guidelines and regulations that designers strive to follow to make their sites as accessible and functional as possible. Compliance with W3C standards ensures that your site achieves its full potential across a range of systems. However, the W3C ...
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10 COMMANDMENTS OF WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY
We keep hearing about something called 'accessibility' for
websites. So what is it all about huh?
Well, it is all about webmasters making sure that they give any
disabled visitors who come to their site an equivalent
experience to that which a non-disabled person would have. So,
if your site has garish rainbow coloured text and is full of
puerile nonsense, then you must inflict your garbage on disabled
visitors (who probably have enough problems already) as well as
the rest of us.
How can you ...
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Introduction To Web Technologies
There are literally hundreds of difficult technologies available
to the webmaster. Making proper use of these technologies allows
the creation of maintainable, efficient and useful web sites.
For example, using SSI (server side includes) or CSS (cascading
style sheets) a webmaster can change every page on his web site
by editing one file.
A few of the more common technologies are listed below.
ASP - Active Server Pages are used to perform server-side
scripting. This is a way to get things done ...
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Is Your Web Host Too Good to be True?
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a hosting company, make certain to stay away from web hosting
deals that seem too good to be true. If the
package sounds too good to be true, chances are it is. There are
several respectable web hosting companies out there working
diligently to operate a good business.
You will come across the good and the bad in the web hosting
industry. Luckily for every one poor hosting company there are
many more companies that know what it takes to operate a ...
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Know XML
Introduction to XML
XML--- extensible markup Language --- is an exciting development
in web technology. It is the youngest and most comprehensive of
markup Language. (Markup refers to any thing on a document that
adds special meaning to a particular text; for example, bold
text is a form of markup). This language got the name Extensible
Markup Language from the characteristic that is not restricted
to fixed set of tags, as is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). An
XML user creates his own tags ...
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WHY DESIGN IS AS IMPORTANT AS PROMOTION
We have all heard that there's no use having the best site in
the world if you don't promote it, and submit it to the search
engines.
Well the opposite is also true. There is no point in promoting
your site unless it is well designed and going to trap your
visitors.
With over 125,000 home-based online businesses starting each
week, internet surfers have such a choice and have to wade
through a sea of information to find what they want - and they
are more likely to be trapped by a professional ...
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DHTML-Introduction
Think of DHTML as not a singular technology but a combination of three
existing technologies glued together by the Document Object Model (DOM): 1. HTML - For creating text and image links and other page elements. 2. CSS - Style Sheets for further formatting of text and html plus other
added features such as positioning and layering content. 3. JavaScript - The programming language that allows you to accesses and
dynamically control the individual properties of both HTML and Style Sheets.The way ...
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Create and deploy a website from start to finish!
Create and deploy a website from start to finish!
Need a website for small business, church, sports team, or
community but don't know where to start? Don't have the time or
maybe even the knowledge on how to build and or publish a
website? Well let me say it's really know big deal. I will try
to give you the basics to get started.
Ok let's get to it. Here are some steps you can follow in no
particular order.
-Step one, create some pages. You probably have heard of 'HTML',
html stands for ...
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Web Design Mistakes - Text and Fonts
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Web Design Mistakes - Text and Fonts by Breal Web Design
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The main purpose people use the Internet is for research,
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Simple Ideas for Quality Content
What is good quality content for a web site? We can usually
recognize quality content when we see it. It is a total package
deal; the words used, the grammar, the presentation, the
supporting artwork. Daily I receive articles from people giving
advice that quality content is one of the golden rules of the
Internet. Without quality content your visitors just don't stay,
and never return.
An entire industry has grown to support and help companies
develop their web sites to present quality ...
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Web Design Is Not For The Squeamish
The internet has become an integral part of our lives. Everyday
more and more websites are going online. With the advent of
online sitebuilders included with many hosting packages, anyone
can easily create a web presence and feel comfortable knowing
that the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is pretty
simple to learn. You don't need to know how to write HTML
because the sitebuilding software generally has a word
processing type of interface and all you need to do is pop
things in ...
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NAVIGATION BAR AND BULLETED LISTS
Next, we are going to learn to make a navigation bar so that the
Web site becomes "navigable", and then we learn to present
point-wise information in the form of "Bulleted Lists".
A proper navigation is the backbone of your Web site's success
on the Net. If you want the visitors to be able to access all
the information you want them to be able to access, you got to
provide them with a consistent modus operandi for doing it. And
that modus operandi has to be present throughout the web site.
A ...
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3 Good Signs of Bad Website
When the internet first became popular years ago, it was o.k. to get your neighbor's kid to design a website for you. Remember that? A page with a bunch of square pictures and fonts of different sizes and colors telling about yourself or your business. WOW! We thought that was something!
While that may have been acceptable 15 years ago, today you'd be the laughingstock of the community. Below we list three easy ways to spot a bad website, or 3 good signs of a bad website. This list will help ...
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Building websites using web templates
Gone are the days when you had to rely on a web-designer to
design your websites. New technologies with innovative ideas
have brought out a new variant to this trend in the form of
ready to use website templates.
So what are web templates?
Well, to put it in a simple way, web templates are nothing but
readymade web-pages that can be used to create websites in
seconds! How you ask? Web templates act as html coded dummy web
pages that contain model content. Now these templates can be
edited with ...
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Teach Yourself CSS The Easy Way
I taught myself HTML back in the mid-nineties and was proud of
the fact that I was able to accomplish the design of fairly
complex web pages with nothing more than a starter HTML book, an
HTML reference book, and the knowledge I had stored in my head.
But back in those days, we web designers had what looking back
was a fairly limited amount of tools with which to work, and the
quality (or lack thereof) of sites on the web was lackluster at
best.
Fast-forward to today: The hand-coder has more ...
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Maintain Your Site with Page Include Files
Maintain Your Site with Page Include Files by Larry (Momp) Poch
We all know how web sites seem to take on a life of their own.
As the number of pages increases maintaining the site can be a
time consuming task...!
The use of "Page Include" files makes the task of editing web
pages a lot easier and faster. An additional benefit is that it
reduces the size of a page, thus improving page load time. This
article takes a brief look at three forms of "Page Include"
files. CSS Includes, SSI Includes, ...
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Understanding ASP.NET Validation Controls
Understanding ASP.NET Validation Controls
After you create a web form, you should make sure that mandatory
fields of the form elements such as login name and password are
not left blank; data inserted is correct and is within the
specified range. Validation is the method of scrutinizing that
the user has entered the correct values in input fields. In HTML
you can perform validation either by checking the values at
client-side or after submitting the form at the server-side. But
these methods in ...
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Page Structure
When HTML started, people put all sorts of things on their
pages: there was a tag to say which font you wanted your text to
be in, a tag to say you wanted it to be in the centre of the
page, and so on. Now, though, that way of writing pages is
out-of-date and very inefficient compared to keeping content and
style separate using CSS.
What is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets - it is basically a way of
saying once what you want your pages to look like, instead of
having to repeat it in ...
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CSS: The Ultimate Developer-Friendly Tool
Once upon a time, developing web pages was a very complicated task. Developers had to rely on tables to display data. And for sites to work well in different platforms and browsers, there were table tricks, _Javascript "hacks," and spacer images.
But with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), web pages can be easily maintained, loaded faster, and viewable on multiple web enabled devices. CSS simply is a mechanism to add style (fonts, colors) to Web documents.
The main feature of CSS is that its ...
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Why you should convert to CSS
h2>Introduction
What is CSS? - I hear some of you ask. Well, CSS stands for
Cascading Style Sheets and they have been
around since the early 1990's believe it or not.
The Wikipedia definition (changed so that it
makes sense!) is as follows:
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a
language that describes the presentation form of a structured
document.
An XML or a HTML based document does not have a set style, but
it consists of structured text without style information. How
the document will look ...
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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.
Here is the live web page of the basic CSS layout:
http://www.isitebuild.com/css/css-layout.html
1. Divide your page into sections - the tags allows you
to ...
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Simple Steps to improve your websites readability
Websites that make their customers work to read them are not the best way to get business. Miniscule fonts, text in colours that make it hard to see against the background colour, and lines that are piled on top of each other are problems, but they're easy to correct. Let's jump right in and look at five easy fixes:
Format your text using CSS.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the way to go - use one style sheet and control how text looks on your entire site. Make a change to the style sheet ...
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Web Design: Search Engine Friendly Pages
There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors. Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the ...
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CASCADING STYLE SHEETS AND SERVER SIDE INCLUDES
Highlight: Below, first we learn how to define individual tags
with multiple definitions using the Cascading Style Sheets, and
then we learn how to include common components on multiple web
pages with minimum effort.
We packed up with external Cascading Style Sheets in the
previous section, and I had mentioned like a sage that their
could be a point in your life when you would like to implement
different CSS definitions for different sections of the same
HTML page. I understand that as you go ...
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Fonts for Your Website
The choice of font you use at your website can be affected by
so many different elements: personal taste, style, screen
resolution and size, operating system, monitor age, background
and - not last - readability and ease of use.
The most common font used for print ant the Web is Times New
Roman. This is the default font of many applications including
most of the Microsoft Office Suites. That is not to say it's the
most readable or comfortable font; on the contrary, Arial,
Courier and Verdana ...
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CSS Controlled Web Design - Tables are for sitting at...
By now, most web designers are aware of the many benefits of using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to control the formatting and appearance of text elements within their web pages.
Indeed, if applied as outlined in one of my articles from 2006 ( CSS - Weight-Loss for your Code), Cascading Style Sheets can substantially cut down the amount of code needed to present a web page in a polished and professional manner.
What few designers realise however, is that CSS is capable of so much more than
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Website Accessibility
Making your site accessible means making it available to be used
by all. It's too easy to think that what looks ok to you will do
for all. Unfortunately, things aren't that simple.
Websites are no longer just looked at by people sitting down in
front of a PC. Today, websites are viewed on PCs, laptops,
palmtops, all manner of mobile devices, digital TV, they are
viewed by non-human automated systems or robots and are read
aloud by special software to the visually impaired. If your site
cannot ...
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CSS Design for change
While you may well have read many articles on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and you may have grasped the basics for including a little bit of style using the raw code, but you are still lacking the techniques needed to fully implement a design that you have scribbled on a beer mat.
So how do you go about getting the scribble into a working CSS design?
One way is to outsource your scribble to a graphic designer, who will transform it into a useable digital image, then all you have to do is ...
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10 Web Design Tips For A Professional Looking Niche Web Site
Web site design is a critical element in niche marketing.
If you want to build your reputation as a Professional in your
niche, you need to project a professional image from the moment
your visitors reach your web site.
Like it or not, first impressions count and no more so than on
the Internet. Your web site is the only way that visitors can
judge you and your product. Give them the wrong impression, make
it hard for them to find the information they're after and
chances are they will click ...
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The right Navigator for you
If you think it's hard to decide what navigational style to use
and what design fits you best, then read on and be enlightened'
Text links are the simplest sort of navigation. Usually they
contain one to two words and are filed in an array. Example to
this is the array Home ' About Us- Contact Us. Using this links,
you can load fast. With this cascading style you can also apply
varying colors, background and other attributes such as
underlines. Text links can also help your search engine ...
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DESIGNING WITH STYLE
One important aspect of good design is to give your site a theme
and coherence. A great deal of this can be done using a
stylesheet.
Using stylesheets is not difficult. In fact it makes the task of
designing a website that much easier. However many new designers
don't use them.
But before dispelling some of the confusion, let us look at the
advantages of using CSS - cascading style sheets.
ADVANTAGES
1) You can use an external stylesheet to control the look and
appearance of your whole ...
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"How's Your Sense of Style?"
No, I'm not referring to your wardrobe here, but to cascading
style sheets, also known as CSS. Developed by the World Wide Web
Consortium, it allows webmasters to separate site layout from
the design. CSS is actually a standard for controlling the
appearance of your Web pages. It's essentially a set of rules
that, when linked to or embedded in HTML pages, control their
appearance.
Right about now you're probably thinking "What's so great about
that?" The benefits are numerous -- two of the ...
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How to create a structured and easy to modify website using CSS
Let us suppose a scenario where your website, having 10 html pages, requires the modification in the way the text looks...color, font or size. If you are using the simple html coding then you are required to open all the pages individually and modify the text on each page. While you are doing this you might be thinking that instead of editing each page individually...if you were able to modify the font at one place to reflect the changes in all the 10 pages. That's where CSS comes into picture. ...
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CSS; Weight loss for your code
One of the main drawbacks of traditional HTML web design is the tendency to produce almost insupportably large file sizes with anything but the simplest of page designs since formatting requires a substantial amount of code per component unless a rather plain 'default look' is to be retained.
Although there are a number of contributing factors, the burden of responsibility can largely be placed on the shoulders of font and other style tags which have to be added to every text element if an ...
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The Power of CSS
CSS or cascading style sheets are used to create a set of styles
that can be applied to your fonts, tables and most other
attributes of your web page. These styles allow you to create a
much cleaner, faster web page that search engines love and also
makes life much easier on the designer when global changes to
these styles need to be applied. It is also always critical to
always keep in mind your target audience and the average
internet connection speed these users have. By using styles
sheets ...
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Welcome To The World Of CSS Web Design
Although CSS was first introduced in the mid 1990s, it did not become a mainstream tool among web designers and masters until more recent years. This is unfortunate, because there are millions of poorly designed web sites cluttering the internet that could be easily improved with the help of CSS.
So what exactly is CSS? CSS is an acronym that stands for Cascading Style Sheets. The term Cascading Style Sheets implies two things. First off, the style sheets are cascading. This means that multiple ...
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The Low Down on Cascading Style Sheets
CSS has been around for more than 10 years already beginning in its development in 1997 but it seems it has been in the public consciousness for only a relatively short time. The reason for this is because it wasn't until the year 2000 that many web browsers began using the capabilities of CSS beyond its more basic color and font characteristics. Of course things are way different now and virtually all modern day browsers feature support for all CSS Level 1 aspects, many aspects of CSS Level 2 ...
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How To Design Your Web Site With CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to create fast loading
pages, increase your search engine rankings, and modify your
whole site with one style sheet. So why don't more people use
them? This is because they got so used to html design and are
afraid or too lazy to upgrade their skills. Some will also use
ready made templates that contain flashy graphics, bloated code
and sometimes even contains hidden code embedded in the page.
In this series of articles I will show you how to create ...
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Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
A Cascading Style Sheet is a set of rules that specify how a HTML document should be presented.
Cascading Style Sheets are used to format HTML. You should have at least a basic understanding of HTML before starting to learn CSS.
There are three types of style sheet: external, internal, and inline. Cascading Style Sheets get their name from the hierarchy assigned to them. The inline style sheet has the highest priority when formatting the HTML, followed by the internal style sheet, and finally ...
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What is CSS?
What is CSS?
1. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
2. CSS is the technology used to make the layout for WebPages.
3. CSS allows you to make changes to all of the web pages that link to the CSS file at once by changing a style in the style sheet. Instead of having to manually change every style in every HTML file.
4. They would save you a lot of time to say the least, especially if you have a large or multiple web sites.
Syntax
The CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a ...
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Web Source Web Design Tips - Cascading Style Sheets
The FONT tag is used to display your text in a specific style.
Using fonts within a table requires you to add the FONT tag to
each individual cell. This technique will cause your page to be
larger than necessary.
By using Cascading Style Sheets, you can, not only save yourself
a lot of time, but keep your page size down.
Place the following code between the and tags of
your HTML page.
By using this style sheet, all the text displayed in your table
will be displayed in your specified font ...
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