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Showing posts with label Web designing Service. Show all posts

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Graphic designing as an career

Graphic designing add zing to a movie living you feeling entranced, compelled and maybe even a tad dizzy, such is the magic of graphic designing.

The scenes of thousands of machine sentinels attacking the human city of Zion were mesmerising. The climactic duel between Neo and Smith in the pouring rain in the streets of Matrix was breathtaking and beautifully executed. The Matrix movie garnered a cult like status around the world.

Millions of fans debated as to its plot's true purport and what message it held in the real world. Its tech savvy directors managed to induce mass hysteria in millions of people both old and young- as they laughed all the way to the bank. Much of the trilogy's magic on screen was possible due to the genius of some highly gifted motion graphic designers who toiled away at their computers for months on end, creating magic on screen for us to watch.

The term graphic design was first coined by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century. In the last ten years, Internet growth has exploded from 50 million users in 1997 to more than 1 billion in 2006 and usage, web sites and e-commerce sales are all expected to continue to increase! Not surprisingly, there is a critical need for people with the graphic talent and technical capabilities to design and develop effective web graphics.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Web Designing Project - Drupal Script Requirement

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 11276402

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Drupal Script Requirement

Estimated Budget :Need Quotation

Description :

We are USA based looking for web developer for our requirement. We need a script that will transfer the information from the Xoops database into the Drupal database appropriately. We already have drupal installation including the taxonomy, modules. This can transfer database information over to the drupal database, but leave the Xoops database intact afterwards. We are looking for good quotation and will pay by paypal. Interested service providers please send us their quotes with work profile and work duration.

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Web Designing Project - Designing and Development of lunch Service Website

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 14878091

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Designing and Development of lunch Service Website

Estimated Budget :2000 USD

Description :

We are a Russia based company looking for service provider for a web development service. We are looking for service provider to develop a lunch service 4 pages website where people can order online from their office. The webpage should contain a database in the back, great flash and web2technology on the front end to make it easier to ordering process. We need the website to be develop in 2 weeks. Our approximate budget is 2000 USD will be paid by wire transfer after the completion of the work. Interested service providers are requested to send us their profile as soon as possible.

Country : Russian Federation

Status : Closed

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

For a Global Presence You need a Quality Web Design

Web design denotes the designing and graphical production of contents in a web site form, appearing on net. The language of designing used in most of these cases are, HTML, CSS, XHTML, java etc. Designing a web site is collection, accumulation, arrangement and presentation of important information in a fascinating and attractive manner. A web site basically contains various web pages providing different sections of information about the company, individuals, products and services are that sold.

Creating a web site is not tough job. Creating a good one is of course another matter. To create a web site which best upholstery cleaning quality information and also has high ranking in all Search listings is a definite challenge. This is where one needs the perfect combination of quality web design and specialized expertise of the virtual business world.

A quality web design does not only mean to get a workable site registered, but it is a 24 hours’, 365 days’ and an unfaltering time’s tool for marketing, advertising, sales and promotion. and upholstery cleaning in web design places much importance on structure, visual appeal, corporate identity and user-friendly interactivity.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Web Designing Project - Freelancer Programmer Required

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Project Details:

Type :Project

Id : 16015238

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Freelancer Programmer Required

Estimated Budget : Need Quotation

Total Requirement : Ongoing - Will sign a NDA

Description :

We are Australia based looking for Freelancer Programmer for Website Development. We need a programmer for our ongoing requirement who can assist us in management and development of our site. We will pay on per project and will be by PayPal . Service provider needs to sign a NDA with us for the rights of the work. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible.

Country : Australia

Status : Closed

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Web Designing Project - Website Development with 20% Advance payment

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 77110168

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Website Development with 20% Advance payment

Estimated Budget :More than 2000 USD

Description :

We are US based need Service Provider to maintenance or upgrade our existing E-commerce website. The site is built using Rayzz engine. We are looking for a Developer or Company with experience customizing Rayzz platform. We will provide layout and site map with design requirements and page mockups. Our estimated budget is more than 2000 USD and we will pay 20% advance payment and the rest will be paid after completion of the work by Pay pal or any other mode as per agreed.Interested Service Providers are requested to contact us with their profile as soon as possible.

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Web sites give small businesses needed exposure

When prospective entrepreneurs ask small-business consultant John Maynard whether they should develop a Web site for their planned enterprises, Maynard responds with a question of his own.

"When ... they ask me that, I (ask) them if they would consider operating a business without a telephone," said Maynard, who serves as the director of program development with the Small Business Development Center in Athens.

Sarah Van Ophuijsen, a Web services project manager for Digital Insight in Athens, reinforced Maynard's observation.

"There is an entire generation of people that will never pick up the Yellow Pages," she said. "When I sit at my desk to make plans for lunch, I use instant messaging with my friends about where to go, and I need to be able to go online to pick a restaurant's menu and link my friends to that."

Setting up a Web site for a small business, whether for a restaurant, retailer or service company, is a crucial aspect of promotion for a small venture, Maynard said.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Web Designing Project - General Web Design Service

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 10687845

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : General Web Design Service

Estimated Budget :More than 2000 USD

Description :

We are Israel based company looking for a development of new website. We need a service provider to work in Jscript and flash for this application, we will provide layout and site map for our website. We need the following functionality in web application as:

A) Live Channels
B) Real time Shows
C) Play recorded Video Clips
D) Delivery of multipoint conference content

Our approximate payout is more than 2000 USD and will be paid by wire transfer on monthly basis. Interested Service Providers are requested to contact with their profiles as soon as possible.

Country : Israel

Status : Closed

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Web Designing Project - Designing of Musical Website

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 12924136

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Designing of Musical Website

Estimated Budget :500-1000 USD

Description :

We are US based company looking for service provider for web designing service. We are looking for service providers to design an entire new young musician festivals website. The site should be a very simple informative site with text, pictures and possible video clips on kid’s performance to download and watch. The website should also contain logos and stationary design for letter head, faxes, festival programs and winner’s certificates. The website should be similar to www.afafestival.org or www.bbpiano.com. We will be providing content and text for the website. Our approximate budget is in between 500 -1000 USD and will be paid by pay pal after completion of the work.

Interested Service Providers are requested to contact us with their proposal as soon as possible.

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Web Design- the invisible hand to the success of your business.

Business and website go hand in hand. Website is the focal point of your business, interacting with your customers and clients round the clock. People judge you by your covers and this is where a good looking website design steps in. A professional website layout puts your business where it matters the most- in front of your customers and set you apart from the noise and clatter of your competition. How many times have you walked in a store which appears shabby? I bet you avoid stepping in, leave alone doing business with them. The same rule applies to your website- it is your virtual storefront and by designing an eye catching website, you are bound to turn a few heads and keep visitors coming back.

Picture this- your website acts as your storefront, your web layout and design the first impression your customers get, your content acts as brochure and catalogs for your customers to browse through, would you be willing to take a chance with any of the pointers that directly affect your business? A professional looking website layout portrays that your website means business. A website should be designed like a car with the purpose it needs to serve in mind. What´s the use of creating a vehicle without passengers? Getting a good looking website does not necessarily cost you a fortune. A well thought out website design would not only add value to your website but open up host of revenue avenues for your website besides creating value to your business. Making your website easily accessible and providing relevant content with your business niche creates a winning combination.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Web Designing Project - Design & Develop The Project`s Website

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 19621704

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Design & Develop The Project`s Website

Estimated Budget :More than 15000USD

Description :

We are USA based organization. We are looking for reputed firm for our requirement of website designing. The estimated budget of this work is more than 15000USD. We are looking for a website to facilitate the collection and delivery of our oral history through digital storytelling, and facilitate interaction among members of an extended digital learning community focusing on our project.
The scope of this project is to update the existing our website. Our in-house marketing department will provide all of the site copy and provide the successful provider with the most necessary original and stock photography. We will provide a firm that can handle all site planning, interface design and production is required.
Scope of work:
1.) Create a content management system that will permit non-technical staff to instantly update web site content on specific pages.
2.) Convert substantial amounts of existing content to new web site. The site must have an attractive mix of text and graphics.
3.) Each section of the site should have a common look and feel.
4.) Our logo should be prominently displayed on every page as a common header.
5.) The use of images, fonts and layouts should be consistent throughout the site.
6.) The site should be easy to navigate. Information should be grouped and presented in a logical manner and require no more than three levels of “drill down” for the user to find the desired information.
7.) Provide necessary software and licenses to maintain site internally or externally, as decided by us.
8.) Provide search capabilities using key words or phrasing that will identify content from throughout the site.
9.) Gather e-mail, areas of interest and demographic information from visitors in a format that permits us to maintain a single database of users and e-mail each according to their area of interest and profile. Provide training and all necessary support to permit easy use by a selected our staff person.
10.) Implementation of tracking software to produce user defined site log reports.
Interested providers must send Ten (10) copies of their proposal no later than 12:00pm/noon CDT, August 15, 2008. Your proposal must include a cost proposal as described above. All costs associated with the delivery of the project should be presented in a flat rate, fee for service format. For more details have a look on attachment.

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Web Designing Project - Development of 1.5 Joomla Website

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 21143931

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Development of 1.5 Joomla Website

Estimated Budget :250 USD

Description :

We are an Indian based company looking for service Provider to develop a Joomla 1.5 based website. We need a website in such a manner where user can get registered by paying us nominal amount (With the flexibility where we should be able to change the charges as often as we want through popular online payment options) and put what gadget they have to offer and what they are looking for in return.

It is a website where people will exchange gadgets with each other by only paying a nominal amount to us. There will be one section for mobile phones and another for other gadgets. The homepage will have around 2-3 good offers and the best offer which we will be able to choose.
  1. A user can only offer gadgets and ask for a similar gadget in a given price-range which we will manually select.
  2. We would like a forum based on SMF.
  3. Some custom graphics and logos also need to be developed.
Our Approximate Budget is 250 USD and payment will be made by credit card after the completion of the work. We would need SEO if possible within budget.

Interested service providers are requested to send their profile as soon as possible.

Country : India

Status : Closed

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Using php effectively for a good user friendly design

Using php effectively for a good user friendly design

Website development has become more common in the present world and optimizing for shopping carts. This is encouraged by all the companies. Many of the websites are designed according to their business plans. Some of the website is utilized for promoting business, shopping, official. Each website is tuned accordingly with their requirements and desires of the owner of website. Depending upon the criteria the entire website, they are designed on the basis of the platforms and the requirement. There are many platforms and web design languages including ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Java, Flash and HTML.

HTML Website design is purely for search engine crawlers and promotes the techniques. The only disadvantage with this is it prevents search engine spiders to view actual content on the web page with the advertisements.

Dynamic advertises online and they give better results in developing a large scale of the website. In this instead of creating one page for one product, we can create one template with good back end database of the website. It gives you spiders of illusion where hundreds of pages are opposed to help the search engine to crawl. It is the most important and effective search engine friendly for e-commerce websites to market its product well through internet and gives output of the marketing solutions.

The most popular web scripting program is PHP that is know as Hypertext preprocessor programming which is server side scripting language. It is the software used for web hosting and developing. It can be used by all web programming for web hosting and website development. Present world has great demand towards this scripting. It has dynamic property and works with HTML for displaying a dynamic web page and its elements. There are some more types where it is combined with Relational Database Management System and runs the programs in different web servers too.

PHP is very simple to use by net programming counter part. IT inputs into different streamed files and instructs the output which displays in another stream of data. This PHP is used for preparing various website with different concept.

  1. Online shopping – Where you can sell different products and competent to search criteria for facilitate consumer with desired products. These sites have different features of maintenance and payment processing.
  2. Social Networking Website – It is one of web portals residing with internet and telecast the social exposure. It is designing in such way the people get interested with the appearance of the site by the colors used and the style of designing with good back end support.
  3. Business Promotion Website - It is a portal where the products and other services of the business needed to be promoted in the present market to over come with the competitors. It furnish all the details of company, their business , services providing and the contact details which are essential to get in touch with customer with out loosing them.
Some of the basic points to be remembered to get success are:
  1. Good Navigation & Neat web page with good professional look
  2. Try to optimum the loading time so that downloads are faster and make much interested to the customer.
  3. Design the screens with good resolution along with good coding and scalable.

Source : http://www.promotionworld.com/

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Web Designing Project - Ongoing PHP Requirement Service

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 67323416

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Ongoing PHP Requirement Service

Estimated Budget : Looking For Best Proposal

Description :

We are an indian based company looking for a service provider for web development service. We are looking for freelance php developer to design our website on a regular basis.The work would be an ongoing process for a 10 hour or more a week on regular basis. We need best proposal on hourly basis.

Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible.

Country : India

Status : Closed

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Five Hidden Benefits of Designing Your Own Logo

These days, do-it-yourself (DIY) is everywhere, invading industry after industry. So if you're weighing the pros and cons of designing your branding materials yourself instead of hiring a graphic designer, you're not alone. Obviously, you expect to save money as a design-it-yourselfer -- and you probably will. But that's just the beginning. There are other DIY advantages that are less well-publicized.

Here are five hidden benefits of employing your creative side and designing your logo:

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Web Designing Project - Re-Programming of Website

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Project Details:

Type : Project

Id : 86305149

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Re-Programming of Website

Estimated Budget : 100-500 USD

Description:

We are US based company looking for service provider for redesigning of website. We are looking for service provider who can re-programmed our site with media(mp3 and videos) to play in player and so as the site to play/load better on all platforms and browsers. The required format will be HTML and Flash for media browser. Our approximate budget is in between 100-500 USD will be paid by pay pal after the completion of the work. Interested service providers are requested to send their proposal as soon as possible.

Country :United States

Status : Closed

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Web Design Tips

The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon’s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge.

1. Planning

When you’re itching to get started, it’s easy to overlook the most obvious step: planning. Whether it’s drawing wireframes and site diagrams in OmniGraffle or Visio, or even on a scrap of paper, you’ll save time by having an overview of your design at the site and page level before you start building. Obvious errors can be detected and solved before it’s too late to go back and it makes explaining your ideas to clients and colleagues a lot simpler than waving your hands in the air.

2. Do it by hand

Although there are some excellent tools around for building web sites, such as Adobe GoLive and Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver, professional code monkeys prefer to code by hand. Are they crazy masochists? Quite possibly.

There’s only one way to learn HTML, and that’s to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with some actual code. But fear not: HTML has one of the easiest learning curves you’ll ever come across and you can create a basic web page with only a couple of lines. Writing code by hand also ensures that you write the leanest code possible, which is the ultimate aim of all HTML geeks.

Don’t throw out that copy of GoLive or Dreamweaver just yet. Both applications have excellent code writing environments, and have useful features, such as collapsable blocks of code and split views so you can code and see the results at the same time. If you want to try the code-only route, then any text editor that can save in the basic .txt format should do, but Mac users might want to check out Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit, and Windows users should give the freeware AceHTML editor from Visicome Media a whirl.

3. Stylesheets: importing vs linking

There are two ways to attach an external stylesheet to your HTML page, and not all browsers understand both methods. This can be used to your advantage to feed one stylesheet to modern browsers and another to Netscape 4.x, which would otherwise choke on more complex CSS.

Cascading stylesheets are designed to flow over each other. The secret is to create a simple stylesheet that works in Netscape 4, with more complex CSS relegated to an additional stylesheet that’s attached using @import, which Netscape 4.x will ignore:


4. Smarter gradient backgrounds

CSS gives you a lot of control and flexibility over the tiling of background images. And the great thing is that tiled images are not limited to the Body background but can also be applied to any DIV, block level or inline element.

Images that tile conventionally or just along the x or y axis can be set to scroll with the page or remain fixed while the rest of the page scrolls over it. Backgrounds can also be offset. This means that it’s easy to create a vertically graduated background that never repeats no matter how long the page is, using graphics that are only a few kilobytes in size.

Using the following code, the background.png file need only be as tall as the gradient and one pixel wide. This example assumes that the gradient fades into white, but the backgroundcolor attribute could be any value.

body { background-color: white; background-image: url(background.png); background-repeat: repeat-x; }

5. Commenting

When you come back to a site that you designed months ago, there’s nothing worse than trying to figure out what you did and attempting to untangle a spaghetti of code. Do yourself (and anyone else who wants to check out your code) a favour by putting comments in your HTML. Comments might add anything from a few bytes to a kilobyte or two to your page, but the time savings are invaluable.

Commenting also encourages you to keep your code tidy by breaking it into logical chunks. Some coders even use comments to create a table of contents for the page, which is only visible in code view.

Be aware that HTML and CSS use two different kinds of commenting, so you may want to learn the difference.

/* CSS comments are enclosed by a forward slash and an asterisk. */

6. Use simple PHP to build sites

There’s no need to become a PHP expert to start using it in your site. If your server supports PHP, you can quickly and easily use server side includes to build a library of commonly used elements, inserting them into your web page with a simple link. This is great for elements like menus, which can exist as a single instance, and means that if you add a new menu item or change the design, you just need to change the include file, which will then update the whole site.

Includes are simply snippets of HTML code such as a table or unordered list. The page calling the includes should end .php and the includes are inserted using the following simple code:

7. Set fonts using ems

Designers love specifying type sizes in pixels because it corresponds easily and naturally with what they do in Photoshop. But as a type size specification for the web, pixels have one major disadvantage: they can’t be resized in Internet Explorer. As monitor resolutions increase, it’s not only the visually impaired who may want to increase the font size in your design, so what’s the solution?

The answer is to specify type in ems. If you’re unfamiliar with the unit, an em is roughly the width of a lowercase em in a font, and using a browser’s default internal stylesheet, an em is roughly equivalent to 16 pixels. Set the font size attribute in the body tag to 62.5 per cent like this:

body { font-size: 62.5% }

This makes one em roughly ten pixels (16 x 62.5% = 10). Now you can equate pixel sizes to ems. For example, type that is set in 12 pixels could be expressed as 1.2em; 9 pixels becomes 0.9em and so on. What’s more, both the designer and user are happy.

8. IE Box Model Hack

Sooner or later you’ll come across an important bug in Internet Explorer that incorrectly calculates the width and height of block level items by including padding values within the box’s dimensions, rather than adding it outside the box. This can wreck layouts. The solution is known as the Box Model Hack, which uses another bug in IE to force it to use tags that other browsers ignore. If you have a div validly specified like this:

div {_ width: 100px;_ padding: 5px;_ border: 5px solid #fff;_ }

You’ll end up with a box that’s 120 pixels wide in most browsers, but only 100 pixels wide in IE. The easiest solutions is the box-within-a-box method, which places one div inside another:

div {_ width: 100px;_ }
div .hack {_ padding: 5px;_ border: 5px solid #fff;_ }

This is applied in the following way:



Your content goes here

9. Space saver

Nobody likes building forms in HTML, especially as browsers insist on adding padding around them for no reason. Simply add the following CSS to your stylesheet:

10. Test, test and test again

While Internet Explorer still dominates the browser market by a huge percentage, its lead is being gradually eroded by other browsers such as Firefox and Opera. There are also plenty of people out there still using archaic browsers like pre-Mozilla versions of Netscape.

It’s virtually impossible to design great-looking web sites that work in all browser versions, so it’s best to decide which browsers you’ll support. Mozilla-based browsers, WebKit-based browsers (such as Apple’s Safari), KHTML-based browsers (such as Konqueror), Opera and Internet Explorer versions four and higher are generally considered a safe benchmark. However, you should still be a good net citizen by ensuring that your code degrades gracefully, so that even unsupported browsers can experience your site – even in a limited form (see tip 14).

11. Format fundamentals

In the old days it used to be simple. If the image contained flat colours like a logo, use a GIF. If it was photographic, use a JPEG. There’s also an overlooked third format, PNG (pronounced ‘ping’) that comes in two flavours: an 8-bit version containing 256 colours, like GIFs, and a 24-bit version with alpha channel support allowing for variable transparency.

The bad news is that Internet Explorer doesn’t support PNG’s alpha channels without resorting to a complex hack. However, 8-bit PNGs generally compress much smaller than the equivalent GIF version. Unless you need animation, which PNGs can’t do, PNGs can replace GIFs in most situations, resulting in an overall file size saving.

JPEGs usually create smaller files than 24-bit PNGs, so unless you’re taking advantage of PNG’s alpha channel transparency using the hack then JPEGs are still the best format for continuous tone images.

12. The ‘title’ and ‘alt’ attributes

Ensure that all your images make use of the alt and title tags so that screen readers for the visually impaired can correctly parse your page:

”logo”

13. The correct format for pseudo classes

For text rollover effects, it’s important that the pseudo classes are in the right order, or they won’t work correctly in all browsers. The correct order is:

a:link { color: blue; }
a:visited { color: purple; }
a:hover { color: purple; }
a:active { color: red; }

14. Use semantic mark-up

The idea behind semantic mark-up is to separate the content of your web site from its appearance so that it degrades gracefully. Ideally, if you were to remove the stylesheets, your web site should still work. It might not look pretty, but it means that users with older browsers, will still be able to get meaningful content from your site.

The positioning, styling and a certain amount of interactivity can then be added with stylesheets and CSS-P.

15. Favicons

Favicons are the little 16x16 pixel icons that appear in your favourites lists and the title bars of web sites. They’re quick and easy to add: save a graphic in .ico format (Mac users may want to consider using Graphic Converter as Photoshop doesn’t support this format) and put it in your site’s root folder. It’s as simple as that.

16. Change capitalisation using CSS

If you need something written in capitals, such as a headline, rather than rewriting the copy, let CSS do the donkey work. The following code will transform all text with an h1 attribute into all capitals, regardless of format.

h1 { text-transform: uppercase; }

17. Wrapping text around images

For a quick and dirty way of wrapping text around images, use the image’s align attribute to push it to the left or right. Rather than jump below the image, text should now flow along the edge.

18. Universal character sets

Character sets are an important part of a web page’s definition, but they’re probably the least understood component. Character sets, which are defined in a web page’s invisible head section, tell the browser what method is being used to encode the characters. A charset ISO Latin 1 (also known as ISO 8859-1) will render the code it finds using a basic Western alphabet, but a charset of Shift JIS will attempt to render any characters it finds as Japanese.

With so many competing character sets, problems can occur, especially when using the MS Windows character set (which contains certain characters that may be replaced by a blank space on other operating systems) or when several languages need to appear on a single page.

The answer is to use a single universal character set that’s able to cover most eventualities. Luckily one exists: UTF-8, which is based on Unicode. Unicode is an industry standard that’s designed to enable text and symbols from all languages to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. UTF- 8 is rapidly becoming the charset definition of choice, and should be included in your web page’s head like this:

19. Print styles

When people print web pages, often they’re not interested in your flashy graphics: they just want a simplified version of the page. Using CSS it’s possible to create a separate stylesheet that only affects printed versions of your site, rather than having to create a new HTML page or adapt an existing one. You add a print stylesheet in exactly the same way that you would add a regular stylesheet to your page:

or

This ensures that the CSS will only apply to printed output and not affect how the page looks on screen. With your new printed stylesheet you can ensure you have solid black text on a white background and remove extraneous features to maximise readability.

20. Learn from others

Finally, a quick and simple tip: learn from great sites built by others. Any site’s HTML is easily accessible by viewing a page’s source code. See how others have done things and apply their methods to your own work.

Source : http://www.netmag.co.uk/

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Web Design: Tips on Using Color

Of all the choices you make when designing a Web site, one of the most important is the colors you use. Without reading anything on a Web site, simply seeing the colors it uses can tell you a lot about its products and the company behind it.

That is, of course, provided the designers chose colors that would deliver the right message to the site's visitors. In this article I'll talk about color, how to use the color wheel to find color combinations, and I'll introduce you to some tools that can help you choose colors for your Web site.

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When you were at school you learned that the three primary colors were red, blue and yellow. When you mix these primary colors together, you get what are called secondary colors — mix red and yellow to make orange, mix red and blue to make purple and mix blue and yellow to make green.

Mixing the secondary colors gives you tertiary colors which are yellow-orange, yellow-green, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet and blue-green. The name of each tertiary color is derived from the colors that are mixed to make it, with the primary color first.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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