- How to Style Forms in CSS
- Mar 17, 2006
- Forms give you an easy way to get information back from visitors to your Web site. Although they might be the most common way to get feedback from your Web page, forms shouldn't be a hassle for your users. Jason Teague shows you how to use a bit of simple CSS to create attractive and interactive HTML forms.
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- How To Use AJAX
- Nov 11, 2005
- AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is very hot in the growing universe of Web development. While this new technology offers some great capabilities, it also sparks some unquestionable debate over issues with the Back button. Kris Hadlock explains how to use AJAX in a real-world situation and how you can assess its value in a project. By the time you finish reading this article, you'll know what AJAX is as well as where, why, and how to use it.
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- How to Use Text in Flash 8
- Jan 13, 2006
- Text is an important part of most Web sites, particularly informational or commercial sites. In this lesson, you'll add and format the properties of many text fields in Flash. You'll learn how to add a Filter effect to a static text field. You'll also spell check the entire document before you finish the lesson. This lesson gives you a foundation in the way text and fonts work and a good basis for using increasingly complex methods of working with text and components.
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- HTMinimaLism Style: Part 1
- Jan 25, 2002
- New Web designers tend to admire flashy, graphic-intensive designs, but HTMinimaLism design is both a challenge and a thrill. Curt Cloninger shows how the satisfaction of creating usable, clean, scalable sites out of just HTML is its own reward.
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- HTMinimaLism Style: Part 2
- Jan 25, 2002
- In part 2 of his discussion on HTMinimaLism, Curt Cloninger introduces Cascading Style Sheets, the designer's secret weapon in producing good-looking HTML text without gaudy gimmicks.
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- Hypertext Killed the Video Star
- Jan 25, 2002
- What people are going to be selling more of in the future is not pieces of music, but systems by which people can customize listening experiences for themselves. Prototypes of such systems are already available online, as Curt Cloninger reports.
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- Identity Template Files
- Jan 1, 1999
- by Robin Williams, from The Non-Designer's Guerrilla Marketing Guide
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- Implementing Responsive Design with Media
- Aug 28, 2012
- It takes careful consideration and planning to give our users the best of both worlds: a beautiful experience that loads as quickly as possible. In this chapter, learn why performance matters, how to conditionally load images, what responsive image solutions are available, and their limitations, how to swap out background images without downloading multiple images, how to conditionally load web fonts, whatβs ahead for responsive images, how to make embedded video scale while maintaining its aspect ratio, and what to do with responsive advertising.
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- Improving Findability Through Web Standards
- May 16, 2008
- You put a lot of effort into building a website, but it's time down the drain unless the site ultimately connects with people. In this series, Aarron Walter teaches easy techniques for getting the attention of both search engines and users.
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- Inside Dreamweaver MX Tables
- Jan 3, 2003
- This sample chapter looks at the various options you have to let Dreamweaver do table coding for you, including Layout view and the Convert Layers to Table command.
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- Integrated Web Design -- Usability: Drawing Outside the Lines
- Feb 20, 2004
- Molly Holzschlag shows you how to draw outside the usability lines and create sites that address the true needs of your site visitors.
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- Integrated Web Design: Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified
- Aug 6, 2004
- In this installment of Integrated Web Design, Molly Holzschlag teaches you all about positioning schemes.
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- Integrated Web Design: Seven Deadly Markup Sins
- Jul 9, 2004
- If you're in Web design and development, you're using something to mark up your pages. But despite all our growth and knowledge, some nagging problems remain. Molly Holzschlag helps you hone in on the most common markup mistakes and shows you how to repair them with ease.
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- Integrated Web Design: Social Networking — The Relationship between Humans and Computers is Coming of Age
- Apr 2, 2004
- In this compelling article by Molly Holzschlag, you'll learn what social networking is, which languages are emerging to support it, and what it might mean for the next generation of web design and development.
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- Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management
- Jun 25, 2004
- Molly Holzschlag helps you determine if you need CSS hacks, how to manage them effectively if so, and which hacks you can employ to solve a range of common compatibility problems.
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- Integrated Web Design: The Meaning of Semantics (Take I)
- Feb 18, 2005
- Nearly every web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, creating tables that don't hold tabular data, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is around, Molly E. Holzschlag slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to each element's content, not just its looks.
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- InterACT with Web Standards: Learning from the Web
- Jun 1, 2010
- Much like anything, learning effectively on the Web requires a skill set that goes beyond constructing a solid keyword search in Google. Denise R. Jacobs shows you how to identify your learning style, introduces you to useful online tools, and explains the best ways to collaborate, share, and find inspiration.
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- InterACT with Web Standards: Positioning
- Jun 3, 2010
- Chris Mills covers positioning, one of the hardest concepts to grasp in CSS. He also sneaks in some words about z-index and media queries for an extra special crunchy treat.
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- Interaction Design Frameworks that Work: Search
- Sep 6, 2010
- How can you apply lessons from Google to on-site search to generate effective results and commonsense interactions? In this chapter from their book, Web Anatomy, Robert Hoekman and Jared Sppol explain the elements you need for a good search engine interface and how they need to work.
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- Interaction Design Frameworks that Work: Search
- Dec 7, 2009
- How can we apply lessons from Google to on-site search to generate effective results and commonsense interactions? Robert Hoekman and Jared Spool discuss the web anatomy of search.
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