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5As web developers we have the tendency to blame web browsers for inconsistencies and for not displaying the pages as designed. Most of the time the blame is justified, but there are instances when the blame lies at the feet of the web developers. For example, incorrect CSS Continue Reading »

categories: Web Development
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0It is amazing that many web developers still use onload method embedded in the BODY tag, like

<HEAD>
<BODY onload=”document.contact.userID.focus();”>
<form name=”contact”>
<input type=”text” name=”userID” >
</form>
</BODY>
</HEAD>

There are two problems with this line of code.

Embedding code (behavior) with HTML (structure) makes it Continue Reading »

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Google agrees that the time has come for us to lay IE6 to rest. Google announced in a blog post that it will stop supporting IE6 from March 01, 2010. Google will start by phasing out IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites, but I believe eventually Continue Reading »

categories: Web Development
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3Color coordination plays a big role in the look and feel of a website. An appealing color scheme is an important prerequisite for eye catching web design. Dull or very sharp colors or mismatch colors will not only look ugly it may overshadow other nice elements of your website. Continue Reading »

categories: Web Development
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Positioning text in the center of an element is easily done using text-align:center property. But how do you position an entire element, for e.g; a div or an image in the center of the containing parent element?
For example, if you want to put an image at the center of your Continue Reading »

categories: CSS Web Development
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0One of the challenges web designers face is to get various web browsers render their web pages in a consistent manner. The reason is every browser assigns slightly different default styles to certain page elements.

A simple approach to handle this cross-browser inconsistency is to overwrite browsers’ default Continue Reading »

categories: CSS Web Development

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