Preparing Web Sites
Few years back there was an unofficial standard in Web design that most Web designers adhered to and that was Internet Explorer. If the Web pages were perfectly looking in Internet Explorer then a Web designer was certain that it looked that way for most Web users. Things have changed, for the better, and today there are at least five Web browsers that Web designers consider when designing pixel perfect Web pages.
October 2008
Few years back 800x600 ruled, but not anymore. Screen displays have grown bigger in the past years. Seventeen and nineteen inches are probably the norm today for desktop computers and fifteen-sixteen inches for laptops.
September 2008
Building the Internet on standards rather than certain technology was a good move and has been the foundation on how it has evolved in the past two decades. There are Web standards for how data transfers between computers such as TCP, HTTP and FTP. These are the standards that are not at the top of Web designer's and Web site owner's mind, but there are standards that Web designers and Web site owners should pay close attention to.
September 2008
The good old HTML table tag has been with us for a long time. Web designers use it for layout and tabular data. It is reliable; it is easy to get it working in all browsers and for those that want structure and order in their code the table tag is their best friend. There is another option available for Web designers that can do everything a table does and more: the DIV tag.
September 2008
HTML tags to display your data and content in a list are many. Some of them are unordered list UL, ordered list OL, table and DIV. The truth is the DIV tag makes it possible to do any type of list and data tables, but the more specific tags can make your life easier.
September 2008
The button tag is useful for making action buttons look nice, and they can contain other HTML tags as well. Buttons designed with simplicity in mind can look great, but often a little bit of work is required to make them fit perfectly with effects such as hovering or sliding.
September 2008
We use them on majority of Web sites, in forms, in advertisements, in text, in modal windows and in alert boxes. They trigger important decisions for users or provide a way to cancel as well.
September 2008
Everybody in the world that browses the Web expects the browser to show Web pages in their own language. This is a very natural expectation and we take this for granted.
September 2008
