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Introduction – Getting started
Where do we start? Well, if we follow the advice of our wise old ancestors, we should “start at the beginning.” This book starts somewhere in the middle. The middle may be a good place to start if you know what went before and understand the direction you want to head. Because you picked up [...]
XHTML syntax
Three major differences exist between HTML and XHTML: 1) XHTML requires lowercase names in markup tags for all elements and attributes, such as <body>. Using an uppercase or mixed-case name, such as <BODY> or <BoDy>, (which are perfectly acceptable for HTML 4.01) will trigger a syntax error when verifying any XHTML code with the W3C [...]
Who is in control
The web designers have to comply on the one hand with web design standards and on the other, they have to ensure that the user environment in which the web pages are displayed does not distort user experience! Are they in control? Is the user in control? As a web designer, you certainly feel that [...]
Graphical user interface and web conventions
Visual interfaces were attempts to recreate accepted behavior patterns from daily life on the screen. Designers used these familiar patterns to attract casual surfers to interact with web pages. In due course, imitation led to the creation of a number of websites that followed similar patterns, and these evolved into simple, informal rules that were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
A voyage of discovery
Designers want a website to enable interaction with the end user. Interaction styles refer to all the different ways in which technology enables the user to communicate with the system. Historically, it all began with the text terminal. Users entered commands as lines of text, and the output was a text. With increasing use of [...]
Taking position
Web pages have been around for some time now. Buttons, banners, text, audio, video, or animated gifs are elements that make up the pages. Presenting these elements in attractive and accessible manner is the intent behind every web page design. While the result looks attractive and simple, the reality is that the placement of elements [...]
Conceptualizing positioning
The W3C published its first working draft on style sheet specifications for positioning HTML elements on the page in three-dimensional space in 1997. Web designers found that they could use these specifications for greater control over objects on a web page and for designing tight static page layouts or for tracking DHTML motion effects. Netscape [...]