Archives by Tag 'scripting languages'

User environments

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

The window in which the user explores your web page is the browser (technically called a user device). A browser is a generic name for a computer program that creates a window or interface through which users view websites on their computers. Most computers come with preinstalled browsers and are often identified by the name [...]

Taking position

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

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

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Monday, June 14, 2010

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 [...]

Types of navigation and menu modules

By Steve Monas - Last updated: Sunday, June 13, 2010

1)      Menus are core modules that are used for providing something similar to the Table of Contents in a book. These menus can be one level or mult-level menus. Common types of menus are cascading menus and tree menus. These menus are usually placed on the left column of the body of the web page. [...]