Web Design
Fixing ActiveX Errors
What Is ActiveX? ActiveX is a technology developed by Microsoft that enables webmasters and web designers to create dynamic pages that look and perform just like Microsoft Office applications and files. These are similar to Java Applets and are used on a large number of websites in order to give a complex user environment. When [...]
All-new Dependable Initiatives for Dynamic Effects of Navigation
There is no point in re-inventing the wheel every time! The market giants like Amazon.com lead the way with some time tested stratagems in escalating the customers browsing experience, using the dynamic effects of navigation. As you surf the Web today, you find sites implementing a huge array of navigation feedback effects. These can range [...]
All-new Dependable Initiatives for Dynamic Effects of Navigation
There is no point in re-inventing the wheel every time! The market giants like Amazon.com lead the way with some time tested stratagems in escalating the customers browsing experience, using the dynamic effects of navigation. As you surf the Web today, you find sites implementing a huge array of navigation feedback effects. These can range [...]
Choosing the Best Free and Paid Fonts for Your Web Site
Writing for the web is seldom an easy task, and a little thing like the use of the wrong font can end up costing you lots of money in lost business and other unintended consequences. That is because some fonts do not appear properly on certain web browsers, while other fonts can be difficult to [...]
Small Business Web Site Design Mistakes to Avoid
An effective web site is crucial for any small business nowadays. Your clients should trust that they can go and read up on your products, services, and general information about you anytime they want. Referrals often come through clients who tell their friends to check out your web site. It is important to give the [...]
A Few Common Font Types
Fonts, typefaces, just what are they? A font is a set of characters including both letters and numbers, in a particular size and style of type. Letters and characters have different looks and a font face or typeface is the name given to describe the particular typesetting. Characteristics can be applied to fonts. For example, [...]
HTML Basics
This is a bare bones summary of the most basic HTML commands and will enable you to create your very first HTML document in a manner of minutes. You will need an editing program to get started. A text editor like Notepad or WordPad (Windows) is just fine. If you wish, you can edit or [...]
10 Short Articles on Cascading Style Sheets – 2
1. Cascading Style Sheets can contain what are called pseudo-classes. Pseudo-classes are not really fake, they’re just called that to allow you to use pseudo-class elements. These allow you to change an element based on something happening. The main use is to affect link colors depending on whether or not it’s been clicked on, being [...]
Proportional and Non-proportional Fonts With ASCII Art Examples
A proportional font uses varying widths to display each of its letters and symbols, while a non-proportional font uses the same fixed width to display its characters. For example, using a Courier New font– An ‘i’ uses the same amount of linear space as a ‘w’. But using Times New Roman, a proportional font, it’s [...]
How to Repair a Chain Link Fence
Occasionally chain link fences need to be repaired. They get saggy or rusty, or their top rails get damaged. But calling a repairman out can be very expensive. For insurance reasons, repairmen have to set their hourly rates quite high. But don’t worry if you ever need to repair your chain link fence; they are [...]