Some basic tests to check your website for accessibility
The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be
made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that
your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you
can make to address some of the main issues. The following list
includes guidelines that provide a good start in increasing
accessibility to disabled people:
1. Check informational images for alternative text Place the
cursor over an informational image, for example, the
organisation logo. Does a yellow box ...
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The Ups And Downs Of Using CSS
When it comes to web designs and creating web layouts, CSS has been considered by many as one of the most widely used form of language for web development. This is because of its several advantages compared to the use of tables. Advantages CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. According to several Web ...
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Seven CSS Layout Tips
The most difficult thing in CSS to get right is the layout of your site. Here are a couple of tips dealing just with that. Some of these tips are not exactly new, or rocket science, but hopefully they will save someone a bit of bother somewhere!Tip 1: Clear out the default padding and margin settings before you start working. Different browsers have different default margin and padding sizes so you want to start with a clean slate, so to speak. Use this command:*{Margin: 0;Padding: 0;Border: ...
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Where Can I Find Good Web Design Advice?
Learning web design can be quite confusing as there is such a myriad of different tutorials and learning hubs on the net.
Many of the top web designers have learned their trade not through formal education and degree courses, but because they are autodidacts, that is, they are self-taught.
Even at this stage in the 21st century, universities and higher education facilities are not geared up to teaching the new media, so those wanting to learn the necessary skills have had to find their own ...
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Embracing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Makes Good Sense
Why do I like Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) and what makes CSS so great. The answer only makes sense if you know what CSS is. The Holy Grail of CSS is to separate the content of a web page from the instructions that control what it looks like. This makes it much easier for various devices to display the web page correctly. The same page would display correctly on all standard web browsers (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Netscape, etc.), and devices used by persons with a handicap, cell ...
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Cascading style sheets Why Use Modern Design Techniques?
This article aims to demonstrate the advantages in learning modern web design techniques, focusing on CSS. We'll learn what CSS is, explore the business factors in building websites in a modern way and find out how much easier and beneficial it is to design using CSS. What this article isn't is a guide on how to make websites with CSS. So what is CSS? CSS (Cascading style sheets) in very basic terms is a way to style elements of your website. It is purely a presentation tool. Despite many ...
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How to build better websites faster using Dreamweaver extensions
People using Adobe's Dreamweaver for building websites, will be happy to find out that there is now a new Directory listing most existing extensions for this popular software. DreamweaverExtensions.org lists hundreds of extensions by a total of 64 different authors, and includes free extensions as well as commercial ones. DreamweaverExtensions.org offers the possibility to rate and review each extension. Authors are invited to submit their extensions, or to edit existing listings. All ...
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Benefits of making your website accessible to disabled users -
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers
must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is
regarded as a service and therefore comes under this law.
Some organisations are changing to their websites, but many are
seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't
access their website, they say, so why should they care?
There are, however, two very good reasons as to why businesses
should start taking these issues seriously:
1.An accessible website will ...
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History of web design
With progression in the web design process more and more designs related to markup language were introduced. The languages were more efficient in creating WebPages but it got more complex. Flexibility was the main advantage of these high level languages. The new languages enabled features like adding objects like tables and pictures to the webpage. Tables which were initially used for representing information in the form of tables were later developed to be used as invisible layout devices. The ...
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CSS for Web Design
There was a time when the browser called Netscape Navigator 4 was ruling the web browser market. During that time designers planned layouts with the help of tables. If you see a layout in a webpage, it is actually a table. For uncomplicated designs also designers had to use tables. Using one or two tables in a webpage wouldn't be a problem but it required more than 10 tables at times. Moreover, the one table had to be placed within another table. Dreamweaver even today use such tables actually ...
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Features of a Professional Website Design
A website is your identity on the web. It is your window to the world and their window into your business. It is the channel through which people access your business and form their first and last impression of you. No wonder you can find a website for every business and individual enterprise worth its name. You may describe your website as your online presence. It says a lot about you and goes a long way to creating the crucial first impression about you and your business. That is why it ...
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Design Web Site Build - The Value of Color
People who visit your website usually form an instant opinion about you and what your website offers. This instant opinion is created subconsciously. It happens automatically within the visitors mind. You might wonder why this happens. It matters not a jot how clever the text is on your page. You can have paid an expensive professional to produce your copy for you. And yet your visitor will still form their instant opinion without even reading a single word of your costly copy.
The quality of ...
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Learn from the Masters (of Web Design)
If you've ever been to the Louvre, you know it's chock full of
art students, who spend hours in the museum with their
sketchpads, copying the works of the Masters. Poets do it too;
that's why English majors spend hours doing "close readings" of
Shakespeare before they begin to write their own stuff.
The "Learn from the Masters" philosophy is what's behind Project
Cool's "Sightings" section, and I think it's a sound one. Every
day, one of their Dev-X editors chooses a site with ...
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How Can a Web Design Help to Build Trust?
Setting up an online business does not take more than few minutes and small investment. This is the reason why online arena has become such a busy place and websites are sprouting like anything. Every day, new websites are being added on the Internet. Over the past few years the rapid growth of internet popularity and globalization has allowed a website as a dynamic tool in the market to acquire and service your clients globally. Indeed, many business owners are focusing more on their online ...
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5 Important Rules in Website Design
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well. 1) Do not use splash pagesSplash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not ...
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Content Writing Role in Constructional Web Design
Web designing is the process of presenting hypertext or hypermedia content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software. Web design is the construction of Web pages and sites using Web languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and others. The process of designing Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic ...
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Design Your Own Website - Some Things Are Free
There are a lot of businesses that based in the web. There are even different personal services that you can access in the web. For most people who have their businesses online, it is very important to be able to advertise the products and services that they offer. However, marketing strategies and advertisements have certain monetary equivalence. This is not the scenario however in some websites that host free websites for different businesses and even for personal people.There are ...
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Web Design Tips and Tutorials
The World Wide Web is filled with millions of different websites all sporting unique designs that either look really attractive or look real messy on the viewer's perspective. If you ever plan on diving into the web and getting your site published, you should know these basic Web Design Tips Tutorials that will greatly help you when designing a website from scratch. Create a Mockup Design FirstWhen designing a website, there are two major phases where the first is the designing and the second ...
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Some Website Design Tips
Usability initiatives like contextual inquiry and usability testing help identify the information customers need to complete the sale as well as potential sales obstacles like shipping costs and ease of product returns. Usability research firm User Interface Engineering found that when consumers were given money to shop at well-known sites, 70% of their shopping attempts ended in failure. Because of poor site design, consumers just couldn't find what they were looking for.In contrast, usability ...
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Top 5 CSS Tutorial Sites
Because of its features that made web designing a lot easier and convenient, CSS has become one of the many popular languages in web designing and layout. Another reason for its popularity is because of the ease of the demand for it in the industry. Today, several websites have been put up to provide people who wanted to learn a simple step by step on how CSS works or advanced CSS styles. Here are some of the most popular websites built to provide the necessary information, knowledge, and ...
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Benefits of making your website accessible to disabled users -
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers
must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is
regarded as a service and therefore falls under this law.
Some organisations are changing their websites, but many are
seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't
access their website, they say, so why should they care?
The statistics on the number of users who may face difficulties
in using your website are however quite startling:
'There are 8.6 million ...
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How disabled users access the Internet
In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began.
The Disability Discrimination Act was passed, stating that:
'It is unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a
disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it
provides to members of the public.'
A website is regarded as a service and the RNIB (Royal National
Institute for the Blind) and DRC (Disability Rights Commission)
have been quick to apply pressure on to organisations to push
this law into practice. ...
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Web accessibility and the law in the UK
There has been widespread speculation about the new legislation
that is being introduced, which will ensure that websites are
accessible to disabled users. Trenton Moss, Managing Director of
Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co.uk), a web accessibility
and usability consultant, says, 'No seems to know what these new
law require you to do. Try to find specific information about
the requirements on the Internet and chances are you'll come up
empty handed.'
He has a point. The RNIB (Royal ...
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Benefits Of Social Media
Social media and social marketing are a powerful online marketing device to help market your company's products and services. It targets the prospective clients and draws them into a dialogue with you; whether in or out of Las Vegas. It can also help boost traffic to your website or blog. Help you to advertise and broaden your client base. This is how they build the image of a company Many Social Media and Social Marketing Services help in account set up and maintain the existing sites like ...
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Starting a New SEO Services Business
If you have ever considered starting a new SEO service company,
there are several steps you can take that will get things moving
in the right direction. I myself started a company this past
year that is already realizing great results. Not only will an
SEO business bring you amazing rewards, but in the process
you'll learn how to get higher ranking for your own web site as
a bonus.
Why SEO? The passion began with my first SEO project for the
Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives; a large privately held ...
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Stylish And Accessible Web Position Forms In Css
The majority of sites designed these days have at least one form. If you are a web designer then you will know that creating a template is essential if you are to be efficient in your work. Many times I have compromised on a forms design due to time restrictions. Below is a template that I use and that is quite flexible in its design. This form allows for any type of input field from a simple textfield to a group of radio buttons. If your quite comfortable with CSS then please feel free to ...
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CSS Margin Properties
CSS Margin Properties
SmartCSS ' software is mainly based on the CSS box model. The CSS box model represents every element on a web page which contains four components:
- The element.
- The padding around the element.
- The border around the padding.
- The margin around the border.
The CSS margin properties define the space around the element which includes the padding and the border values.
CSS Border Properties
Margin (margin-top margin-right margin-bottom margin-left)
margin-top (auto ...
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CSS - Create a Stretchable Elastic Website with Absolute Positioning
Using CSS to create a website can take quite a few attempts to start getting the hang of it. But hang in there, it eventually starts making sense. This article is aimed at the new CSS designer looking to easily create an elastic website that will always fill the screen regardless of the viewers screen resolution.
Over time, and with much experimentation, I've found that a web designer can create a website that will stretch to any resolution being used and still keep everything exactly where it ...
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Website Style: Clean is In!
What's the first that comes to mind when you walk into a store which is full of clutter and yet you need to find a certain object that's buried among them? If you get the feeling of frustration, then you're normal, but if you're the owner of the place, then you should feel remorse because you now have a frustrated customer. No one likes a messy environment no matter where they are. If anyone thinks otherwise, then they're either lazy or 'eccentric.' The same sentiment goes for any internet ...
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Stylish and Accessible Forms using CSS
Stylish and accessible forms in CSS
The majority of sites designed these days have at least one form. If you're a web designer then you'll know that creating a template is essential if you are to be efficient in your work.
Many times I've compromised on a form's design due to time restrictions. Below is a template that I use and that is quite flexible in its design. This form allows for any type of input field from a simple text field to a group of radio buttons. If your quite comfortable with ...
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