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Building a site that works across browsers

The foregoing discussion probably left you feeling a little frustrated and disheartened. Designing a web page that displays its elements well across all browsers is not as easy as it seems. It appears that one must compromise and design for a single web browser or, at best, a chosen few. However, your awareness of the [...]

Horizontal and vertical offsets

The first aspect that must hold our attention is the concept of offset. When content fills a web browser, some amount overflows the edges of the browser window. It is important to know by how many pixels the content is offset from the browser window.

Canvas size

Next, we must focus on the canvas size. What is the width of the page for 640 x 480 dpi, for 800 x 600 dpi, or for the increasingly popular 1024 x 768 dpi? What is the height available to the user for viewing the contents of the page? Optimal canvas sizes are somewhat subjective, [...]

Text size

The third element is the text size. What are the standard HTML text sizes? What are the tracking and leading?

Space for form elements

Finally how much room do the pull-down menus and text input fields take up on the page and what about other form elements on the page Having taken care of the offset, you must now turn your attention to the resolution. What is the canvas size for which you must design your page? Web gurus [...]

Operating systems and positioning

As stated earlier, the platform also has a significant role to play in the way the browsers display the elements on the web page. The Mac platform combined all the tools for design, development, programming, and testing on a single system. Hence, it was defined as a niche platform, and most web designers initially did [...]

Client-side and server-side programming

Client-side or server-side programming is another aspect of web design that has an impact on the way pages display on the screen of the end user. Client-side scripting refers to a computer program executed on the client side by the user’s web browser. This program becomes significant when the web-page code contains DHTML, scripting languages, [...]