Jennifer's Web Design / HTML Blog May 2007 Archive

There was a point in time where I was maintaining a Web site in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. And while I studied Spanish in High School, ... Read More

It's one thing to understand the elements of design, but knowing the elements without knowing principles to put them together doesn't make for good design. Image courtesy clix from StockXchng #449243. Design ... Read More

WYSIWYG or "What you see is what you get" HTML editors are often very high-end development tools. Image courtesy forum.nvudev.org They require a lot of development time to create, so they ... Read More

Now, I know that my XHTML Certification Exam is not easy to pass. Image courtesy madame_min from StockXchng #348403. But some people just refuse to give up. Cory Huebner took it 158 ... Read More

Many Web designers are self-taught, which means that while we are very good technically, sometimes the basics of design are left out. Image courtesy xmoix from StockXchng #558629. Learning more about the ... Read More

When dynamic HTML or DHTML started getting popular I was not terribly impressed. Image courtesy BrookeB from StockXchng #311152. Most people used DHTML to float images across the screen and do ... Read More

I'm always surprised when people talk about lists, they almost never include definition lists. But they are so useful. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. Once I stopped thinking of ... Read More

It's easy to get hung up on the text or images on a Web page, but often the white spaces around the page elements makes a bigger statement. Crowd of hedgehogs ... Read More

One of the most common questions I get is about how to write one HTML file (with say, copyright information) and then include it in every Web page on the ... Read More

As designers, we need to think about our layouts as more than just a medium for selling product or conveying information. Image courtesy J Kyrnin A good Web layout sells the product ... Read More

There are lots of really annoying things about Web pages. But even if they're annoying, why do Web developers keep doing them? Image courtesy Candice Courtney from www.candicecourtney.com. I suppose that ... Read More

Comments are becoming more and more common as designers try to incorporate their users more directly into the Web site experience. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. But I wonder how ... Read More

There are several properties in CSS that impact the text of your Web pages. Image courtesy abcahill from StockXchng #287763. If you thought that the only way to change the text ... Read More

I remember the day I found the Favorites toolbar in Dreamweaver. I'd been working on a photo gallery that consisted of Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. around 100 images and associated headlines. ... Read More

Most monitors these days display millions of colors, so it's much more viable to use non-browser-safe colors in your designs. Image courtesy foobean01 from StockXchng #537438. But along with the millions ... Read More

Sometimes it seems like there's only one side of an issue. When I bring up tables, invariably it turns into an argument about whether or not they should be used ... Read More

I remember when HTML tables were first being used - not just for layout, but for tables in general. They were huge! Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. But they were so ... Read More

Dreamweaver makes it easy to modify text with the visual editor. You just select the text you want to modify and make your changes. Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. You can make text ... Read More

If you use a meta refresh tag too often you could be hurting your Web site search engine referals. Image courtesy xmoix from StockXchng #558629. Search engines don't always like meta ... Read More

Do your readers hate filling out your forms? Do you hate writing them? Forms are one of the more tedious parts of Web design, Image courtesy abcahill from StockXchng #287763. but ... Read More

It can be very tempting to use the most modern effects on your Web site - both because they're fun to build and they allow you to show off your ... Read More

One of the best ways to solve problems on Web pages is to validate your HTML code before you post it. Image courtesy yarranz from StockXchng #426123. And yet, I know ... Read More

As you should already know, the blockquote tag is used in valid HTML to define large quotations that don't fit well into the text of a document. Image courtesy J Kyrnin But ... Read More

One of the things I like best about Dreamweaver is how flexible it is. Dreamweaver 8Image courtesy Adobe. There are so many options in Dreamweaver that it can be very overwhelming, ... Read More