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Posts tagged html
A Quick Look At Dreamweaver VS Eclipse
Jan 17th
When you’re designing your website the major focus point of it is going to be the appearance of it and, of course, the things you actually have written on there. However, creating an amazing website can be tough when you’re not sure which product to use when you’re designing it ready to upload to the masses. Dreamweaver and Eclipse are two very popular products at the moment in the web design field and both of them offer their own unique take on the design process.
If you don’t mind the extra costs, Dreamweaver is a very good platform to use because it’s More >
Setting Up Your Website For SEO Success
Jan 27th
I’m a huge believer in getting to know my client’s processes, business goals and background. I think it gives me more scope to deliver a higher quality, and more effective website.
And when I say more effective I mean all round; search engine wise, lead generation wise, usability wise and so on.
When I build a website I consider various things before I’ve even started to build it, all encompassed in the broad headings I’ve given above.
But what about the build? How best to tackle that? I’m sure that every designer or developer has their own traits and techniques that make them More >
Designing In The Browser – A New Way For Web Designers?
Jan 18th
Howdy
Is designing in the browser the new prototyping method of choice for customer focused web designers? Well, I’ve been reading up quite a bit on designing in the browser recently; “live prototyping” if you will.
There are plenty of arguments for and against this, and in all honestly I’ll likely still mock up my designs in Photoshop, test drive them with the client and then slice and dice ready for some nice HTML on the desktop.
However, the pros and cons of designing in the browser are well worth a read, there’s a great post on “Making Your Mock-Up In Mark-Up” over More >
Zen Coding by Smashing Magazine’s Sergey Chikuyonok – a web revolution?
Jan 10th
I was doing my usual reading up this weekend and came across a fantastic post on Smashing Magazine’s blog by Sergey Chikuyonik regarding “Zen Coding”.
To quote:
In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
So, it’s shorthand HTML right?
True, but it’s far far more than that; it’s a way of integrating shorthand HTML with common CSS to generate actual code. One line of “Zen Coding”:
html:xt>div#header>div#logo+ul#nav>li.item-$*5>a
Produces a More >
