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The theory of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a means to an end: better,
more efficient Web site design. In the real world, however, CSS does not provide a perfect, clear-cut path to that goal.To achieve the promise of CSS, working designers have employed a series of workarounds known collectively as hacks. At the most basic level, a CSS hack is a modification
to the standard CSS code. Like any deviation from the norm, the use of CSS hacks has both its supporters and detractors: Some designers feel CSS hacks are an absolute necessity and others are fervently opposed to them.
To figure out why the Web design community is divided over CSS hacks and which camp you should be in you’ll need a little background on the emergence of CSS.
The Cascading Style Sheets Promise
When work was begun in 1995 on the first CSS specification, the Web was one giant kludge. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags were being pressed into service to handle chores they were never intended for.Tables, for example, meant to contain structured data were largely used for layout.
But missapplied tags were the least of the designer’s woes when it came to working with HTML.
HTML is perfectly suited for its original design: to represent scientific papers and other documents that adhered to a highly structured format. A structured document is formatted with headings and, where necessary, subheadings, for all titles along with standard Read more. . .
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Navigation menus are probably the most important element in website design. Navigation menus need to be intuitive, simple in design, and easy to use. Basic principle is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. Achieving the perfect navigation layout can sometimes be difficult, Therefore it’s important to make sure that your visitors will find they way around the site structure - however complex the latter might be. So here’s a list of user-friendly navigation menu solutions that other web developers have came up with:
1. Silverpoint: Web Solutions for Schools
2. Tulumarka
3. Good Creative - Web and Graphic Design
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Styling FormsUni Form - an
attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, to
get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic,
accessible and usable forms.
CSS-Only, Table-less Forms
- A great example of a well designed form using modern css techniques.
It works in Win/IE6, Firefox v1.0+, Win/Opera v8.0, has minor layout
differences in Mac/Safari v1.0.3 and Mac/Safari v1.2, and is usable but
fairly buggered in Mac/IE5.2.
Tableless Forms - has a great login form example, with a graphic in the input field.
Demo
A form with style - How to style and stop web forms from looking ugly.
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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML isn’t a new programming language, as it is often mistakingly called. Basically, AJAX is a set of XHTML, CSS, DOM, XMLHttpRequest and XML, put together and used together for the same purpose - to improve the user-server-interaction.
AJAX Auto Completer
1. AJAX AutoSuggest: An AJAX auto-complete text field
2. AJAX Autocompleter / script.aculo.us library
3. AJAX AutoCompleter
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CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right. There are many articles have written by web-developers about CSS in last few years and developed many useful time saving techniques.
Let’s take a look at CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Stay tuned and Enjoy!
Custom Reading Width - Custom Reading Width Beta is specifically geared towards those that have liquid, or full-width layouts. Jakob Nielson already tells us to use a liquid layout, but users at higher resolutions suffer when it comes to reading text on screen. Custom Reading Width, when implemented on a site, allows a user to select the desired reading width.
Dynamic Piechart with CSS - This is an example of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries.
Displaying Percentages with Read more. . .
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List of tools which you can use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank. Here is the list of the most useful SEO-tools , developing and optimizing your next web-site. We recommend: 156 Seo Tools - one of the most comprehesive lists with essential SEO-references and tools. For even more resources check out the SEO section of The Web-Developer’s Handbook.
Alexa
Backlink
- Anchor Text Backlink CheckerThis tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
- Backlink AnalyzerResearch and analyze websites for link quality. Checks for Indexed Pages, Links to Website, EDU & .GOV Links, Domain Age & Expiration, Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, DMOZ Listing
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We’ve collected them. At least most of them, and compiled them in a brief and precise overview. And here what we’ve come out with - most useful CSS-Tools you can use developing tableless web-sites.
Coffee Cup Style Sheet Maker, by CoffeeCup Software, Inc.
Rated 5 stars with ZDNet, and other rave reviews. Helpful program for PCs for creating and editing style sheets for your website. Same company as the Coffee Cup HTML editor. Download trial or purchase available.
CSSEdit, by Macrabbit
CSS Editor for Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. Plenty of rave reviews and highly regarded among Mac users. Try the demo version or buy the full version from their Web site. See also an interview of its creator, Jan Van Boghout, by Veerle.
Style Studio CSS Editor, by OverZone Software
Full-featured CSS editor, plenty of features, reasonably priced. For Windows.
Style Master by Westciv, Read more. . .
