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One question I get all the time is how to lay out a form without using tables. It's great that these people have totally embraced CSS for layout, but forms are tabular data, so you can use a table. But, an interesting article I read today shows that readers are faster with top aligned labels in forms. And all you need to lay that style of form out is a <br> tag. Sweet!

Widows and orphans can make a great design look amateurish. Learn how to spot widows and orphans in your web pages and learn solutions for fixing them.

Web Typography

• Widows and Orphans in Web Design
• Widows and Orphans
• Web Typography
• What is Typography?

It used to be that when people worked on speeding up their pages, they focused primarily on the images and multimedia, trying to make them as optimized and slim as possible. But research has shown that as much as 80–90% of the time spent waiting for a page to load is waiting for numerous HTTP requests to be processed by the server. By reducing the number of requests you make for page elements, you can greatly improve your page load times. And with the techniques mentioned in this article, you won’t have to give up fancy design or images to do it.

Why Speed Up Pages

• Minimize HTTP Requests to Speed Up Page Load Times
• “Thank You for Your Patience”
• The Size of Your Pages Does Matter
• Speeding Up Your Web Page