Articles Index
Hyphenation in CSS3
Learn how you can affect the typography of your web pages with more effective hyphenation using CSS3 properties. This article explains about the CSS3 hyphens property as well as other hyphenation properties that have been deferred to CSS4.
Cascading Style Sheets Style Properties Library
The Cascading Style Sheets library is a library of cascading style sheets (CSS) properties and syntax. Learn Cascading Style Sheets by learning the CSS properties. CSS 1 Properties.
How to Test Web Page Designs
Learn how to test your websites so that they work in as many browsers as possible. Alexander Peev explains how to test, what to do if problems come up during testing, and how to test changes that are added after testing is complete.
Standards Based DHTML Menus
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 as they mouse over the links.
Things to Consider When Setting Your Prices
Web design pricing is a hot issue for new designers - learn how to set your web design prices and charge your customers reasonable and fair rates and fees for web design work.
HTML Editors
HTML editors make it easy to write web pages. While it is possible to write a web page using just the text editor on your computer, most web designers find that it is much more efficient to use an HTML editor. HTML editors give you features that aren't usually available in plain text editors. And the About.com Web Design / HTML site has the most comprehensive list of HTML editors available. I have reviewed every HTML editor available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux and evaluated them against a set of criteria valuable to web designers and web developers. If you're looking for an HTML editor, you've come to the right place.
What is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, no matter what you think it stands for, RSS is the answer to Web site syndication.
GET versus POST Requests on HTML Forms
There are two methods you can use on your HTML forms but how do you decide which one to use? This article explains when you should use each one.
CSS Vendor Prefixes
Learn why CSS vendor prefixes are important and why you should use them. CSS vendor prefixes or browser prefixes allow you to add advanced CSS to your pages and get support in the most browsers.
Learn How to Build CSS Drop Shadows
Learn how to write CSS drop shadows without using any images. It's even possible to create drop shadows on text, but currently not in a standards-compliant or accessible way.
Flash Websites Need Fallback Options for iOS Users
Flash websites don't work on iOS devices, but that doesn't mean you should just ignore them or worse suggest they should get a different device. The only readers you have that will be loyal enough to do that are your relatives, and even they might not be willing to buy a new hundred dollar device just to view one web page.
The Mailto Command
Learn how to use the mailto command to write email links on your Web pages.
Style the HR Tag
Learn how to use CSS to style the HR tag. If you want to divide sections of your HTML, one way to do it is with the HR tag. But this tag can be really ugly if you don't style it. Learn how to use CSS to style your HR tags.
Positioning and Clipping Background Images with CSS3
Learn how to use two new CSS3 properties: background-clip and background-origin. This article will help you understand the way these two properties work and how they work together.
Cross Browser Testing
Testing your web pages in many browsers is very important. This article by Alexander Peev explains when to test your web pages and what browsers and versions to test.
The SPAN and DIV HTML Elements
The SPAN and DIV elements are extremely useful when using CSS style sheets to build layout and manage your pages. Learn how these two tags work and how you can use them in your web pages.
How to Use an Accessibility Validator
Unlike HTML validators, accessibility validators require that you do a bit more manual work to make sure that your sites are accessible. This document will help you understand how to use an accessibility validator so that your site actually is accessible.
Stop Optimizing Old Content and Start Adding New Content
Once you've learned how to do SEO, it can be tempting to keep doing it and tweaking it and fixing it. But doing that can lead to over-optimization which Google is now treating as a bigger sin than not optimizing at all. Your best bet is to just write naturally, for your customers, and keep adding new stuff.
Even Small Speed Gains are Important
There are many things you can do to improve the speed of your web pages. And many of them have what appear to be almost a negligible effect on the download times. Because of this, many people are inclined to ignore and dismiss these things. But that is a bad idea. Learn why even the small speed increases are important.
Learn to Find the URL of a Web Page
Getting a page to the web hosting provider can be somewhat challenging for a beginner, but then trying to figure out where that page is going to show up on the web can be even worse. Learn how to figure out what the URL of a web page will be once you've uploaded it.
Rag, Widows, Orphans, Typography, and CSS
There are three typography basics that are difficult to correct using CSS style sheets: widows, orphans, and rag. This article explains why you should still be concerned about them and gives suggestions for how to fix them. Plus, it describes a common mistake that beginners make regarding two CSS style properties.
Styling Web Forms and the CSS Box Model Part 2
When you are adding styles to the web forms, you need to be aware of how browsers interpret the box model so that your styles turn out as you expect. This article by Alexander Peev explains how web browsers interpret the box model for various form input elements. This is the second article explaining how the box model affects the form fields for file input, option elements, and the HTML5 input fields.
HTML Tags That Define Semantic Meaning
HTML is moving towards tags that only define the type of content they contain, and not the look and feel. The function of the content is more important than the form. And there are some HTML elements that define more than just the look and feel of
What is Text and What is a Text Editor?
Learn the difference between standard documents on the web and actual ASCII text used in HTML and XML.
Obscure Tips for Writing Web Pages for International Audiences
Many people build web pages for an international audience. And in general, most people focus on just the language of the page. They might use special characters, but they don't realize that there is more to an international page than just the language. This article explains a few other tips you should remember so that your pages still work even if the audience is people in a country other than where you live and work.