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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Defining concepts

Absolute positioning defines the x and y coordinates of an element with reference to the top-left corner of the browser page or the containing block, and the position attribute is set to absolute. The code will read somewhat like this: <style type= “text/css”> <!-– p {position: absolute; left 50pt; top: 30pt} –> </style> Note that [...]

Logical site organizational models

An efficient ordering of information is what users are looking for. Real content should be tucked away only a few clicks below the surface. The information can be simply placed in a sequence or in hierarchies. Web-like organizational structures have several advantages, but they tend to develop into dense links that explore information nuggets fully [...]

Dealing with screen size and position of elements

Ultimately, what the user sees is a page. The layout of the page affects how the user rates the website. Flashy buttons and animations that distract and the positioning of key elements including content will all make the difference between the success and the failure of the page. This chapter intends to introduce you to [...]