20 online topography tools for web design
Do you need help with elements of style, word spacing, font selection, vertical motion, blocks and paragraphs, line height, converting px to em, and attention to additional details in body…
Read moreQuick Tip: Setting options to print web documents
How many times do you visit an organization’s web on the Internet and find it a daunting experience to print out the content? There are many browser tools available that…
Read moreBackgrounds in web design: Adding text styles
This is the final post in my series on backgrounds in web design. In the last post, we added navigation to the finished design; now we will finish the restaurant…
Read moreQuick Tip: Character encoding
Another consideration when developing your web documents is character encoding; for example, when including Chinese characters on your web documents, are you entirely sure they will render on viewers’ browsers?…
Read moreBackgrounds in web design: Adding navigation
Continuing the project series on creating background web designs with this installment, which shows you how to add navigation links utilizing CSS to define multiple clickable hotspots. We left off from…
Read moreQuick Tip: Proofreading tricks for clean content
I cannot tell you how many times I have proofed, spell-checked, grammar-checked, and re-read my material on screen and then still found an offending error. Proofing your content also includes…
Read moreBackgrounds in web design: Going from PSD to code
Takeaway: Ryan Boudreaux continues his example website project of creating backgrounds for web pages. In this installment, he takes the Photoshop design to CSS code. In my previous post entitled…
Read moreDesigning websites without code
Takeaway: You don’t necessarily have to know how to code to produce a website these days. Ryan Boudreaux looks at some of the platforms that allow for easy, rapid website…
Read moreBackgrounds in web design: Creating a theme
Ryan Boudreaux shows you how to create a unified website theme by fitting backgrounds, illustrations, images, graphics, and textual content together in a design. In this post, he puts together…
Read moreHow to specify the document language: Using the lang attribute
As you well know, the must haves on every web page include the standard header information that identifies the html version, the page title, and keywords, but there seems to…
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