Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog October 2004 Archive

Design tactics that will often scare away even the most dedicated reader. These tactics are the worst of the Web - and should be avoided at all costs.

If you're ready to start a work-from-home business as a Web designer, there are a lot of things you need to do to prepare and be ready. The key is ... Read More

Choosing your content management system CMS is a big step for any site, but there are a lot of things you need to consider, to be sure that you're getting ... Read More

Choosing an operating system for your Web hosting provider used to be a much bigger deal. Now it's less important.

Sometimes you don't want content to be included in the document tree for some reason. Now, CSS2 comes with a way to include that content.

Don't let your links be boring, create links that are styled just like the rest of your Web pages. And before you think that just means changing the hover color ... Read More

New Article ne of the common themes among content management software professionals is the need to separate content from design. This article discusses this concept and provides an argument for ... Read More

The CSS box model has very specific rules for how wide a box should be when a width is applied and padding, borders, and margins are applied. However Internet Explorer ... Read More

These tips for using color include color shorthand, finding color triads quickly, and whether or not you should use the browser safe color palette.

When you use CSS to style your Web pages you may notice that there are certain properties that don't work as you expect in all browsers. The most common way ... Read More

Microsoft Internet Explorer has a number of proprietary tags and features that can extend how you use the browser. This article discusses conditional comments and the comment element.

Positioning elements with CSS can sometimes result in elements overlapping one another. With z-index you can control what element displays on top, in the middle, and on the bottom.

Almost from the day that the Web was invented, people wanted to track information about the pages delivered and the computers requesting that information. This is stored on Web servers ... Read More

New Article This article is for Web designers struggling to take their borders from basic to exciting. You'll learn how to do more with borders than just decide what the ... Read More

Learn how to install the Apache Web server on a Windows system. And on Linux.

Building Web community used to be considered crucial to every Web site, but the reality is that it's not appropriate for everyone. Learn when community works and when it doesn't.

The Web has it's roots in the telephone and telegraph industry, but it really all started in March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for managing information that became ... Read More

If you don't use the DOCTYPE tag, your Web pages won't display in standards compliant ways and might result in some strange Web pages.

Search engines and other systems use robots or spiders to automatically crawl through your Web site. They parse the pages and store the data. It's possible to control where those ... Read More

Business Web sites are often built and maintained in a very different fashion from how you build and maintain your personal site. There are a lot more programs, processes, and ... Read More

It is possible to take a site that is completely non-standard HTML and convert it to XHTML. It also reduces the file size as well.

DHTML menus are one of the most popular ways to use dynamic HTML. They allow you to have crisp menus on your site while providing additional information to your customers ... Read More

DHTML menus are one of the most popular ways to use dynamic HTML. They allow you to have crisp menus on your site while providing additional information to your customers ... Read More

What is XSL:FO and how do you use it? Extensible Stylesheet Language: Formatting Objects is the way to make your XML look the way you want it, online or in ... Read More

XSL is more than just transformations of XML documents, it allows you to define your presentations and provide specific maps of your documents.

Web graphics may look like they are round or have jagged edges, but they are all square. Once you understand the basic shape of a Web graphic, you can use ... Read More

New Article This article covers the basics and more advanced aspects of linking on a Web page. Beginning Web designers will get resources to learn how to create links and ... Read More

An easy way to get started understanding DHTML is to understand the attributes that are used for dynamic changes to a Web page like onclick onmouseover onfocus and so on.