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CSS3 Helps You Control Hyphenation

2012-05-22T08:00:44Z

One of the frustrations of typography on the web is the lack of decent hyphenation control. CSS3 introduces the hyphens property to help you control the hyphens on your web pages. Learn how hyphenation works on the web and how you can control it more effectively.

Read the full article: Hyphenation in CSS3

Get Better Typography on Your Pages

CSS3 Helps You Control Hyphenation originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 08:00:44.

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Learn to Test Your Pages Effectively

2012-05-21T08:00:22Z

Testing your web pages in multiple browsers is critical to ensure that your pages work for as many people as possible. Alexander Peev provides us with information on how to test, what to do when problems crop up during testing, and even how to deal with changes to the site after testing is complete. This is part two of the article Cross Browser Testing.

Read the full article: How to Test Web Page Designs

Learn to Test Your Pages Effectively originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 08:00:22.

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Web Design / HTML Interns Wanted

2012-05-20T23:23:34Z

Are you looking for technical writing experience on HTML, web design, or XML? I am looking for one to three interns for the second half of 2012. Interns for this site will write one article (650-800 words) per month, July through December, on topics related to HTML, web design, web editors, and XML.

This internship is unpaid, but you can work from anywhere in the world and all your articles will appear with your byline along with an author profile describing you and your expertise.

This internship is open to any current graduate or undergraduate students studying web design, computer science or a related discipline. Recent graduates are also invited to apply. You must know HTML and be able to write clear, accurate articles about HTML and web design.

To apply: please send a cover letter, current resume, writing sample, and the URL for at least one web page you have built to webdesign.guide@about.com. Please indicate what web editor you use for building web pages and what topics you would be most interested in writing about. Deadline for applications: June 15, 2012.

Web Design / HTML Interns Wanted originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 23:23:34.

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Making Your Images Show Up

2012-05-18T08:00:51Z

I've been working with beginning web developers for many years now, and the most common question I get is how to get images to display correctly. Images are challenging for the beginning web developer because they have to understand how web servers work (a little) and how directory systems differ on their home machine and their web server.

If you still are having trouble, you should consider signing up for my Free HTML class.

Making Your Images Show Up originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 08:00:51.

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Poll: Do you use centering as a design element?

2012-05-17T08:00:11Z

Centered alignment is a popular design element as it's relatively easy. In fact, now centering with CSS is arguably harder than it used to be with the CENTER element (that element is deprecated and you shouldn't use it). However, there are drawbacks to centered design. In fact, Jacci, the Desktop Publishing Guide, recommends that you should avoid centered text for most body copy.

Poll: Do you use centering as a design element? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 08:00:11.

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HTML5 Design Gallery - BeerBlogging

2012-05-16T08:00:43Z

Be sure to mouse near the top of the “beer” to see what happens. But if you're using Internet Explorer, you'll need to check it out in a different browser. All versions of IE are sent to their Feedburner page instead. There are some interesting choices for the sectioning tags in this document. For example, the dates in the posts are listed as ASIDE and they might better be defined as DATA elements with machine readable dates in an attribute. The images are also enclosed in a SECTION element which appears to be there primarily for the CSS styles—he should use a DIV instead. But it is a fun site design.

Have you built an HTML5 site? Or do you know of one that does a great job with HTML5? Submit HTML5 site designs to be featured on this site.

HTML5 Design Gallery - BeerBlogging originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 08:00:43.

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Don't Click the Shiny, Red, Candy-like Button�CSS3 Buttons

2012-05-15T13:18:18Z

Buttons are a fun feature of web pages, but up until just recently, if you wanted your buttons to have any interesting features at all, you needed to use images. In fact, if you search the web for ”web buttons” you will find hundreds if not thousands of examples of buttons you can use for your web pages. But now, with CSS3 you can create buttons that have cool effects but don't use any images at all.

Read the full article to learn how: CSS3 Buttons (Note: there are four pages to the article, and page two shows you how to create the above buttons.)

Other Fun Things to Do With CSS

Don't Click the Shiny, Red, Candy-like Button�CSS3 Buttons originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 13:18:18.

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Do you know when to use GET vs. POST in an HTML form?

2012-05-14T08:00:31Z

There are two methods you can use to transfer data in HTML forms. But it's one thing to know the two methods, it's another to know which is appropriate to use. This article will help explain when to use GET or POST in your HTML forms.

Read the full article: GET versus POST Requests on HTML Forms

Did you know you can validate for accessibility?

2012-05-11T08:00:56Z

Most web designers, when they work on websites think very little about how accessibile the site is. But this is an important part of web design. Accessible pages don't have to be ugly or boring. In fact, great design takes that into account and accounts for as many custoemrs as possible. I think making accessible sites makes sense, as why drive away customers if you don't have to? And it's easier than you think. By validating your pages, you can find out what problems your site might have.

Learn how to Validate for Accessibility

More Help with Accessibility

Did you know you can validate for accessibility? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 08:00:56.

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Poll: What's your favorite layout method? (2012)

2012-05-10T08:00:08Z

I asked this same question a couple years ago (see results from that poll), and I'm curious if the results have changed much in the intervening time. Layout on web pages can be accomplished in many ways, and most designers have methods that they prefer. For example, I tend to lean towards elastic layouts with a max-width for large screens, but when I'm pressed for time I will often move to absolute positioning just to get things where I want them quickly. What's your favorite layout method?

Absolute positioning uses the CSS position property and properties like top and left to place elements on the screen based on a grid with 0,0 in the upper left.
A fixed width layout sets the layout as a specific size and then places the elements within that width.
Liquid layouts are set based on a percentage of the current width of the browser window.
An elastic layout is similar to a liquid layout, but sets maximum widths on either the entire page or sections of the page (such as the main content) to improve readability.
Tables for layout uses HTML tables to define how the page should look. Don't forget to use the border="0" attribute or the role="presentation" attribute so that computers know that the table is not data but layout (presentation).

Poll: What's your favorite layout method? (2012) originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 08:00:08.

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CSS3 Helps You Control Hyphenation

Get Better Typography on Your Pages

Learn to Test Your Pages Effectively

Web Design / HTML Interns Wanted

Making Your Images Show Up

Poll: Do you use centering as a design element?

HTML5 Design Gallery - BeerBlogging

Don't Click the Shiny, Red, Candy-like Button�CSS3 Buttons

Other Fun Things to Do With CSS

Do you know when to use GET vs. POST in an HTML form?

Other HTML Forms Articles

Did you know you can validate for accessibility?

More Help with Accessibility

Poll: What's your favorite layout method? (2012)