Archive for the 'Web Design' Category

Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

This document is one of several resources created to assist the preparation of a business case for the implementation of Web accessibility. It describes the many business, technical and other benefits to the organization above and beyond the straightforward benefits to people with disabilities that can be realized by applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines […]

XHTML Document Types

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

XHTML 1.0 Strict
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Transitional
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Frameset
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

For Document Type Definitions [DTD] visit w3schools.

Website Speed Test

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Here is an easy tool that tells you how fast your page loads (among other things): Website Speed Test

Other features include backlink checker (with PR), future PageRank.

CSS Compressor

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

CSS Compressor: http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor/

216 Web Safe Color Chart

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Links to 216 Web Safe Color Charts:
–WebSource

CSS Drop Shadows

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Tutorial for CSS Drop Shadows.

No Right Click, and more…

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

body oncontextmenu=”return false”>
body ondragstart=”return false”>
body onselectstart=”return false”>

Add the starting < to each line.

Favicons

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Here is a Tool and Tutorial for building Favicons.

CSS Color Names [W3Schools]

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

CSS Color Names

Hexadecimal Color Codes

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

This page is packed with great Hex Color Codes:Hexadecimal Color Codes

Copyright Infringement Notice

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

You can place this notice in a “comment” tag at the very bottom of your web page to warn potential code lifters. You could also use this as your “disable right click” warning message.
WARNING : DO NOT COPY! The code on this page is Copyright Protected. No portion of this website may be reproduced, copied, […]

Color Schemes

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Here are a few links for programs that will help generate color schemes:
Color Scheme Generator 2
Color Schemer

Macromedia FlashMX Tutorials

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Keyframes and Tweening: Five Easy Steps to Making a Photo Fade In and Out

CSS: Absolute Positioning

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Here are a few tutorials that cover “Absolute Positioning” with CSS.

Tutorial: CSS Positioning
W3Scools: The position property
MSDN: About Element Positioning
HTML Tutorials: CSS Layout

Copyright Symbols

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Here is a page for Copyright Symbol Code and Images:
The Copyright Symbol Webpage

PHP Mail Forms

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Here are a few sites with information on how to build PHP Email Forms:
Email Forms in PHP
PHP: Mail Manual
Email - Making Forms
Project: phpFormGenerator
Form Processing Solutions

Web Page Review Tools

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Netmechanic’s HTML Toolbox: This will provide information on Load Time, HTML Check, Browser Compatibility, Spell Check, and Link Check.

W3C’s Markup Validation Service: This will provide specific code errors.

Delorie’s Lynx Viewer: This will give you an idea of how your page lays out for the search engine spiders.

Web Page Analyzer

Bobby: Accessibility

PHP Date and Time Functions

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

In the footer of this site is a copyright statement with the current year. The “Year” updates automatically using the PHP Time function. Here is the code I use:

Copyright ©
< ?PHP $g_year= date ("Y"); ?>
< ?PHP echo($g_year); ?>
Blackwell & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Tutorials:
PHP Date - Manual
Date () Function

Design Tutorials

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Tizag Tutorials
HTML and CSS Tutorials

HTML Tutorials

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

A Beginner’s Guide to HTML