Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

The IE Tester

Published May 1st, 2008 in This Just In, Resources and Web Design. 0 Comments

Developers and designers entering the new era of Windows Vista might find themselves struggling to test previous versions of IE. Although there are several methods to accomplish this in Windows XP, post and IE 7 installation; Windows Vista puts up a fight with dual IE installations.

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Web Designer’s Javascript Arsenal - Set 1

Published August 15th, 2007 in Resources and Web Design. 1 Comment

I’ll try and cut your development time in half by providing a pretty good list of the most useful Javascripts. Usually, these will all be included in all pages to create state-of-the-art websites. Loading time can be optimized by browser cache-ing if compressed versions of these files aren’t used.

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Valid XHTML Conditional Commenting

Published July 21st, 2007 in Code Bank and Web Design. 0 Comments

It's sometimes nessasary to write conditional commenting in (X)HTML or in CSS, especially with the current browser wars. Here, i describe how to write conditional commenting enabling/diabling IE from rendering. With some witty programming you can make IE/Win work in somewhat standards.

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The best way to support Transparent PNG in IE6

Published June 21st, 2007 in Code Bank and Web Design. 3 Comments

There are many way to support transparent .png images in IE browsers. However, this method seems the simplest and most “transparent to work with. It uses CSS compliant JavaScript .htc files and can be easily called thought the 

behavior: url(iepngfix.htc);

How to implement:

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Designing For 2 Or More Screen Sizes.

Published June 5th, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments

Web design theory calls for a website to appear seamless to every user. The problem, of course, is that every user’s different.

Tackling website dimensions has been a rather simple decision. You can decide to design a static template and then choose one of the typical dimensions: 640 x 480, 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768.

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HTML Meta Tags

Published March 28th, 2007 in Web Design. 0 Comments
Preparing meta and head tags can be confusing, especially when trying to support the major search engines. Here, I try to layout the most common and basic tags that you should never leave out. Define keywords for search engines: 
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, JavaScript, VBScript" />
Define a description of your web page: 
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials on HTML, CSS, XML, and XHTML" />
Define the last revision of your page: 
<meta name="revised" content="Hege Refsnes, 6/10/99" />
Refresh page every 5 seconds: 
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />

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