Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in Announcements, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Feb 18th, 2009
Are you new to CSS? Confused about box models and how to create a CSS based page layout? This Introduction to CSS class is for you. You must be able to write or at least read HTML and familiar with the terms of web design to participate in this class. Introduction to CSS is another [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Feb 1st, 2009
In my wanderings around the web today, I came across another site I wanted to share – Web Design+ — Tips and advice on web standards development by Harry Roberts, an 18 year old web developer from the UK states: Welcome to Web Design+. This is, in no particular order, an amalgamation of web-standards solutions [...]
Posted in CSS, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 25th, 2009
The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork! The book contains articles with code sections, images, illustrations and links to the original articles on woork.You can choose to download The Woork Handbook in pdf format or read it online.
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 20th, 2009
Would you like to be able to add a rounded corner box to your web page to display news items, sales items or just about anything but dread the thought of trying to create the corners with your graphics program? Never fear, help is close by. RoundedCornr – This generator will allow you to create [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 19th, 2009
Lists are a perfect way to display content and information in a very easy to scan, easy to read method. List are found on blogs to list posts, comments, and links. Lists are used on web pages within the content area as well as used as menus. So what makes a list “good?” Is it [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 14th, 2009
If you would like to have a set of F REE web forms styled using CSS, head on over to CSS Globe to download the set of five that are by Alen Grakalic. He says: In this collection I used my typical form markup. I always use FIELDSET and LEGEND elements although I sometimes hide [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 5th, 2009
Do you have Microsoft Office 2007 installed on your computer? Would you like to be able to easily save some of your documents in pdf format for distribution on your website? In that case, you can download Microsoft’s free Save as PDF add-in for Office 2007. It allows you to create PDF documents in Word [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jan 3rd, 2009
It is the start of a new year and maybe we are making some New Year’s Resolutions. You have been adding pages to your site throughout the year, changing pages, images and links. Do you clean up after each edit or are unsed styles, pages and images accumulating on your site. It’s a new year [...]
Posted in Expression Web Articles, Expression Web News, General Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 21st, 2008
Tables are used extensively by the genealogy community in both the layout of their sites as well as presently data for their viewers. Crafting CSS layouts is tricky. In this article, Kevin Yank introduces CSS tables (which, once IE 8 is released, will be supported by all major browsers). They promise to make CSS layouts [...]
Posted in Color, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 13th, 2008
Where in the web design process do you choose the colors for your site? For me, choosing the colors are an integral part of that process. I read an interesting article this morning, How Color Choices in Your Web Design Impact the User Experience. The writer starts out – While most people pay attention to [...]
