Archive for the ‘HTML Tips’ Category

Flash WMode To Preserve The CSS Stacking Order

July 24, 2012

If you are using Flash animations in your web pages, you might find yourself struggling the the overlapping of your navigation menu and a flash movie.
Your sub-menus will appear underneath the bounding box of your Flash movie no matter what CSS trick you use to change the stacking order (z-index) of the HTML elements affected by that issue.

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Building A Navigation Menu With HTML5 and CSS Part 3

May 1, 2012

We are now going to build a horizontal navigation menu with just HTML and CSS. In Part 1 we wrote the HTML snippet that we are using in both a vertical sidebar navigation and the horizontal bar navigation. In Part 2 we wrote the CSS styles needed for the vertical navigation.

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Building A Navigation Menu With HTML5 and CSS Part 2

April 20, 2012

In the Building A Navigation Menu With HTML5 and CSS Part 1 post we wrote a sample HTML of your web site main navigation menu. In this article we will now write the CSS styles needed to both position and address the overall look-and-feel of a vertical navigation typically displayed in a sidebar. Assuming, your sidebar is placed on the left of your web pages, we’ll accordingly assign the CSS ID #leftnav to the HTML element wrapping that navigation (<nav id=”leftnav”>….</nav>). Now comes the CSS style sheet.

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How To Merge Multiple Style Sheets with CSS Media Queries

April 17, 2012

This article is an attempt to share some insights pertaining to web design for multiple devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones and other internet enabled portable gadgets. Thanks to CSS media queries, you can now serve the same content to all those platforms and define a style sheet for each specific range of screen sizes. To provide each web site visitor a web experience tailored to her device, web developers have to create multiple CSS stylesheets — at least 3 — in order to cover the display spectrum.

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Building A Navigation Menu With HTML5 and CSS Part 1

April 13, 2012

The navigation is one of the most import element of any web site. It can be positioned horizontally below your web site main header then duplicated on the page footer or  maybe you decided to have a  sidebar (left or right) to display you site navigation instead. The same HTML can be used in either case and CSS will take care of your specific choice of orientation. Here is the HTML of a typical navigation bar using HTML5 semantics:

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How to Create Buttons With CSS and No Graphic

March 29, 2012

Buttons are used in a web site primarily for navigation or in a web form for the end-user to click to perform an action such as submitting the form or simply to reset the changes made in the case of a very long forms. For the most part, web designers have to first create individual images in a graphic design program sch as Photoshop or Fireworks.

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Is Your Web Page Jumping Left and Right?

May 20, 2010

I work very often with digital artists and other creative people who are now investing their talents designing web sites. I am always eager and pleased to offer my expertise in web development to help those clients of mine convert a masterpiece  crafted in  Photoshop, Illustrator or Fireworks into  full-blown web templates ready for text copy.

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How To Make IE6 Play Nice with Other Web Browsers

March 20, 2010

The constant web browsers war is more about the chaos and the lack of consistency across the board in implementing the recommendations of the W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) regarding HTML and CSS. That leaves web developers in the middle of a land mines field. Those pour souls have to gather all the courage it takes to tiptoe out that mess when designing or updating web applications.

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Internet Explorer 9 to Embrace HTML 5, CSS3 and SVG

March 12, 2010

Internet Explorer (IE) is one of the most used web browsers on the internet today. Its popularity cannot certainly be attributed to its  performance. The spread of that browser on personal computers is linked to the fact that Internet Explorer is  shipped with most new PCs using the Windows Operating System. Most web users still perceive IE as “the” internet browser because IE used to be tied to Windows OS until recently.

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How To Design a Clean CSS Web Page Layout

March 5, 2010

Using CSS to convert your graphic design from Fireworks/Photoshop into a full-blown web page is an art in its own right. It takes some time to master that craft but you can achieve clean CSS layouts with a lots of practice  or quickly learn the tricks-of-the-trade from an expert.

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