Absolute Positioning

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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 [...]

Browsers! Browsers! Browsers!

The raison d’être of web design is the end users. After all, a designer created the web page so that the users could browse it, interact with it, and use it. If they are not comfortable with the web page or the page does not display accurately, it is logical that users find fault with [...]

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 [...]

Graphical user interface—FrontPage and Dreamweaver

FrontPage and Dreamweaver are GUI applications offered to web designers who want to drag and drop controls on their web pages and get the HTML code generated automatically at the backend. Rapid application development and web design became a possibility in the process.

Controlling content visibility

Positioning of elements also brings into focus another need of web design—the visibility of the element. Does the web designer want the element to be visible, partially visible, or invisible? The content of the positioned elements can be restricted in a number of ways. Setting values to the display and visibility attributes of the element [...]

Element visibility

Your web page may have a number of elements that must be hidden unless a specific trigger is fired or an action is performed. For instance, if you want to display a clock on the page at a particular time of the day, the clock will have to remain hidden until the time trigger occurs. [...]

Style sheet differences in browsers

Ideally, you should be able to deploy your website by using only one set of CSS for it. However, this is still a distant dream, and you will soon find that you need different style sheets for different browsers. Browsers still suffer from uneven levels of implementation of CSS standards. The implementation bugs in each [...]

Stretchable pages

Web pages that stretch to fit into any window is the latest craze in web design. If the page does not stretch a lot of white space around it looks pretty bad. A simple solution is to center the design, but the white space remains a fact. Relative sizing using percentage values on tables does [...]

Attributes and positions

An HTML attribute or a style property is called a parameter in web-design parlance. For instance, the id parameter means either an id attribute that can used with the <layer> tag or the id style property. However, property means style property. The <layer> tag takes on pixels as the unit of measurement for attributes that [...]