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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 [...]

The story of the Web

The world has come a long way from CERN. The Web as Tim Berners-Lee conceived it is hardly recognizable in its reach today. It is no longer a minor network of communication among scientific communities located in a single building or a few buildings across the square. It is a complex, international, cross-platform, cross-language, cross-cultural [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

User environments

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 [...]

Internet Explorer

Until January 2009, the various Internet Explorers have been the most popular browsers. IE comes installed with the Windows operating system. Seventy percent of all users used IE 6 in 2005, according to the statistics available on the W3schools website. The popularity for IE appears to be waning, and in 2006, 60% used Internet Explorer 6. [...]

Firefox

Firefox is a robust modern browser that is in competition to Microsoft’s Internet Explorers. It is drawing upon a large part of IE’s market share and is free. Unlike IE, its download size is minimal, and it has a lean, mean interface with eye-catching themes. It knows how to block annoying pop-ups and has extensions [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]