Well, recently I have come across quite some tricks that will help web developers to spin out better web pages and one of them is this: actually, you don’t have to use <a name=”xxx”>xxx</a> for named anchors, in the example of <h2 id=”cottage”> <a name=”cottage”>grandpa’s warm cottage</a> </h2> you can merely rely on the ID …
Rarely heard of it from any of the popular web design / development sites (blogs, forums, info portals and so forth), there’s actually a neglectable implementation of the tag <comment> in both Internet Explorer Windows and Internet Explorer Mac. You are <comment>not</comment> browsing on Internet Explorer. You are not browsing on Internet Explorer. In IE, …
Proprietary HTML comment tag in Internet Explorer of both Windows and Mac Read More »
Update: There’s actually one more font you can use freely and safely across platforms, that is Tahoma. Update: Alright, there’s actually 3 more web safe fonts you can use. Check them out here.
There’s this 3 column layout, in 3 <div>s of course, and the left one as well as the right one is floated to both sides with a fixed width, say 200px. The center column is fluid in width, stretching as far as its neighbors’ borders. Now how can we make out a layout like this …
3 column layout, left and right fixed width, center fluid Read More »
Take a div of class translucent for example, you can literally make it translucent with the following CSS rules. It’s bulletproof, meaning that all the browsers will render it as you have specified. Enjoy! div.translucent { /* this class makes a window partially transparent */ opacity: .5; /* Standard style for transparency */ -moz-opacity: .5; …
News for the web development community: The new W3C HTML Working Group has voted to adopt the HTML5 draft specification comprising the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications developed and copyrighted as far by major browser companies Mozilla Foundation, Apple Inc., and Opera Software ASA under the umbrella of WHAT-WG, or Web Hypertext …
To be honest, I don’t know much about XAML, actually very little. However, after I came across Silverlight, the Microsoft way of Adobe Flash, it really doesn’t matter whether you know much or not. Because we can build very decent bells and whistles for our websites in almost no time with it! What is Silverlight …
Beginning Silverlight, and XAML Resources – QuickStarts, Videos, Walkthroughs Read More »
Aboslutely! If you are a total rookie in manipulating web pages, never having the chance to know how web pages work and wanting to learn about it or even trying to spin some out. Listen to this. Everything here you are told, in this naive article, is pure gold. And everything else, other than those …
Create your first web page – Learn XHTML and Make Web pages Read More »
