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About this Website from a book “Absolute Positioning”

This section briefly describes the contents of the individual chapters in this website book. Part I: Discovering positioning Chapter 1: Deep positioning The Web is an application that uses the infrastructure of the Internet to display text, images, video, and audio. Tim Berners-Lee conceived it in 1989 for a specific purpose. It has grown to [...]

Cascading style sheets to the rescue

Cascading style sheets were a welcome relief to the web designers who were frustrated by the control over design provided by HTML. The style sheets for the first time allowed the designer to apply typographical styles and spacing instructions for elements on the page. The term cascading refers to a situation where several sources of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Tables

Tables are one of the primary tools that are used by web designers to gain control over elements of a web page. They also offer visually interesting organization of text and graphics. They help the designer designate specific parts or columns and rows for menus, navigation bars, or for framing images or content. However, browser [...]

Framed?

Web designers use frames when they wish to display multiple HTML documents on a single page at once. The implementation of frames was introduced by Netscape Navigator 2.0 and was not backward compatible and is not supported by a large number of browsers. Web designers who use frames have to double their labor by designing [...]

Page size and layouts

Page size and layout are extremely important factors in positioning elements on a web page. This is one of the biggest challenges faced by web designers. Variability of screen sizes is incumbent upon the settings adopted by the user. Many computer displays are set for 800 x 600 pixels. However, some displays are set for [...]

Concept of templates

Many of the tasks in web-page design are repetitive. The need to maintain a consistent look and feel throughout the site, the familiarity of users to the positioning of buttons, and navigational elements and so on makes it inevitable that some of the aspects of the design are repeated again and again. This results in [...]