12/20/04 - Alt Tags: Describing Your Images for Better Web Accessibility
Alt tags allow you to do more than just describe your images for when someone puts their mouse over it. This article describes alt tags and how to use them as well as how you might use alt tags in different situations and how alt tags assist with Web usability and Web accessibility.

12/13/04 - Web Design Software: Which One is Right for You?
If you're looking to find the right Web design software to meet your needs you should take this questionairre. After just a few short questions, you'll have a list of some of the best Web design software tools available to meet your needs and your budget.

11/22/04 - Web Typography
Before CSS there were font tags to style the typography on a Web page, but now CSS allows you to separate how your fonts look from the actual text of the page, providing powerful tools for Web typography.

11/15/04 - How to Create a New Web Site Using Macromedia Dreamweaver
This visual tutorial will help the beginning Dreamweaver author create a new site using the site builder tool in Dreamweaver.

11/01/04 - Click Here: How to Write Links That Work
Web writing is a bit different from writing for print publications, and links are a huge part of that. This article is for beginning and advanced Web developers who want to improve the writing on their Web pages by improving the content of their links.

10/25/04 - Separating Content from Design: A CMS Standard
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 why that will never work effectively in many CMS implementations.

10/18/04 - Borders - Learn How to Dress up the Edges of Your Elements
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 width and color should be. Use CSS to create borders that are dashed or dotted and that only show on specific sides.

10/04/04 - Links: How Your Readers Get Places on the Web
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 more advanced designers will learn how to style links effectively and check for problem with their hyperlinks.

09/27/04 - Cloaking: What it is and Why You Shouldn't Do It
This article discusses the issue of cloaking and why some firms will recommend it as a way to improve your ranking in search engines. Web site owners who are working with search optimization firms should read this article so that they are aware of the issues surrounding cloaking.

08/23/04 - Navigation Menus Using CSS Lists
Learn how to use CSS to style basic unordered lists into vertical navigation menus for your Web site.

08/16/04 - Converting Web Sites to XHTML+CSS
Many Web designers have been building pages for years, either by hand or with an editor, and the idea of converting their site(s) to XHTML+CSS is daunting at best. This article looks at the issue of conversion and shows the pros and cons for converting, so you can make your own decision.

08/08/04 - Web Page Widths
Once you've moved beyond beginning Web design, you'll come across the most aggravating question for a Web designer: what resolution should I design the pages for? This also comes out as how to decide how wide your pages should be.

08/02/04 - Font Families - Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace, Script, Fantasy
A guide for beginning Web designers and anyone who uses fonts on Web sites to find the right font for the right situation. This article will help you choose fonts for your site that show your originality but also work for your readers.

07/26/04 - Color Symbolism
Color symbolizes many things to different cultures, but it is easy to forget this when designing a Web site. If you use color on your site, then you should be aware of the different meanings different cultures attach to color.

07/19/04 - Introducing the Macromedia Web Publishing System
More than just a content management system, the new Macromedia Web Publishing System puts together everything an organization would need to publish to the Web quickly and effectively without the hassles of a CMS. This system includes new releases of Macromedia Contribute 3 and Macromedia FlashPaper 2.

07/12/04 - The Ten Most Important CSS Tips
Cascading Style Sheets or CSS may seem daunting to beginners, but there are ten simple things you should understand about CSS in order to create style sheets that work and styles that do what you need them to do.

07/05/04 - Basics of Web Design
Web design is made up of some basic premises, and if you understand them you can design pages that will impress and illuminate your readers. These fourteen tips will help you create great Web designs that work with your readers and not against them.

06/28/04 - Are Your Web Pages Color Sensitive?
Creating a Web page that is accessible to color blind people can make a big difference in how your pages are perceived. As much as 12% of men in the US are color blind, and if your pages don't reflect that, they might not be seeing your pages at all.

06/21/04 - Basics of Web Layout
It's one thing to know how to build a Web layout, but it's something else to know the rules behind designing a layout that works.

06/14/04 - You Can't Get Every Page to Look Identical, So Stop Trying!
Do you work with graphic artists and print designers who are always criticizing your Web designs? Well, they need to learn that the Web is not a graphic and it's also not print. Flexibility is key to Web design.

05/31/04 - Creating Your Web Design Business Site
Where to start when building your own Web design business Web site. Many Developers seem to leave this site for last when building sites. I am guilty of this myself. Learn how to build the site that helps attract more customers.

05/24/04 - Web Design Businesses - Start with a Business Plan
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 creating a business plan. If you treat your home business like a business from the start you'll be better off in the long run and have a more lucrative business.

05/17/04 - Choosing a CMS
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 the best you can. From the backend server information through what the CMS costs and what it supports you need to know these things to choose the CMS that's right for you and your site.

05/03/04 - Windows versus Linux for Web Page Hosting
Choosing an operating system for your Web hosting provider used to be a much bigger deal. Now it's less important.

04/26/04 - CSS2 Generated Content
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.

04/19/04 - Styling Links with CSS
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 - there's way more to it than that. When you're designing your page, don't forget to design your links.

03/29/04 - Box Model Hack
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 doesn't follow these rules. So we need a hack to make boxes in CSS the same width or height (whichever is defined) in Internet Explorer as in other browsers.

03/22/04 - Color Tips for the Web
These tips for using color include color shorthand, finding color triads quickly, and whether or not you should use the browser safe color palette.

03/15/04 - Hiding Your Cascading Style Sheets
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 to deal with that is to write browser-specific cascading style sheets and then use JavaScript to browswer-sniff. But you can also use bugs in these same browsers to hide your style sheets from various browsers.

03/08/04 - Comments in Internet Explorer
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.

03/01/04 - Z-Index in CSS
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.

02/16/04 - Tracking Web Page Views
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 as log files - usually in Common Log Format (CLF) or Combined Log Format.

01/09/04 - How to Install the Apache Web Server on Linux
Learn how to install the Apache Web server on a Linux system from source files.

01/09/04 - How to Install the Apache Web Server on Windows
Learn how to install the Apache Web server on a Windows system.

01/26/04 - Will Community Work for You?
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.

01/19/04 - A Brief History of the World Wide Web
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 the World Wide Web.

01/12/04 - Quirks Mode - Using the DOCTYPE Tag
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.

01/05/04 - Controlling Web Robots
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 robots go and what they do on your site using the robots.txt file.

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