Running a Website Basics

From personal usage to supporting a business, websites now serve a variety of purposes. Although there are fewer free website hosts than in the past, you still many to choose from, and the...

Building a new website is a project that includes several tasks such as the planning stage and ideas on what the finished product should look like. An important part of building a website is...

On a web page, colors are displayed in RGB values, that is, by varying amounts of red, green and blue. All colors on the web are made from variations in the amount of red, green and blue assigned...

On a web page, colors are displayed in RGB values, that is, by varying amounts of red, green and blue. All colors on the web are made from variations in the amount of red, green and blue assigned...

A wrapper or container div on a web page is used for several purposes. In this article I will explain some of the reasons to use a wrapper div.

If you want to center an image on your web page, it's simple to do it with CSS. Here are the easy steps.

Add a news ticker to a Web site by clicking on the downloads link from a news Web site to download an RSS ticker file, and then editing the Java script to include the Web site address. Find out...

Change the visitor's cursor on a Web site by adding a CSS tag, which tells the Web site where to find the new cursor. Find out how to add a new cursor to a Web site by using Cascading Style Sheet...

One of the requirements for an accessible website is that it contains content that can be presented in different ways (for example, simpler layout) without losing information or structure. In...

Websites are essentially a group of associated files that are displayed through a web browser. Web browsers can read various types of programming languages; however, the most common websites are...

A form element that will help you organize and clarify a form is the fieldset element. A form can contain more than one fieldset. For example, there might be a fieldset containing the form...

In order to build a Web site, an individual needs a basic understanding of HTML and CSS and the ability to use an HTML editor. Learn about using a third-party Web hosting and design company with...

The Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) property called border will add borders around the outside of the content and padding of any element in your HTML document. Border is part of the CSS box model....

A menu on a web page is really nothing more than a list of links. The most accessible type of menu is made up of text, not images. With some CSS, a text link can look like a beveled button. Here...

Having trouble removing the extra unwanted verticle space located around an HTML Form tag that is automatically inserted? Frustrating isn't it? But not anymore; a easy soluction is just below.

Here are some design steps and advice on how to deal with the diversity of monitor sizes and consequently screen resolutions that a web designer must contend with.

The CSS display property allows you to set up rules for display that make your content display as a grid or as if it were a table, when in fact the material is not a table. Using CSS to create a...

The CSS display:table property allows you to make content display in browsers if it were a table element. However, there is no HTML markup making the displayed content an actual table of tabular...

The CSS display:table-cell property allows you to make content display in a browser as if it were a table cell. However, there is no HTML markup making the displayed content an actual table of...

The CSS display:table-row property allows you to make content display in a browser as if it were a table row. You can place content in a div to display as if it were a table cell using the CSS...

The philosophy that "less is more" usually reigns true. This is no different in web design. Check out some of my steps to involve yourself in web designing for minimalism.

Div and span elements often confuse people new to HTML and CSS, because they aren't semantically meaningful elements like headings, lists and paragraphs. In this article I'll explain what div and...

Image maps are often used in web designs for convenience as well as flexibility, but why are they really used? What are their benefits? Learn all about it in this guide to understanding image maps.

If you're just learning CSS, you may be a victim of a common CSS newbie mistake--writing essentially the same rule over and over again for different selectors. This article will show you how to...

Have you heard of classitis? Beginning CSS designers quickly master the ability to create dozens of classes in a CSS stylesheet and to apply them liberally to their HTML documents. Most of these...

If you want to create an appearance where the heading at the beginning of a paragraph appears to run into the paragraph--it is possible with CSS.

Dreamweaver CS3 comes equipped with functions labeled Spry, which are a WYSIWYG way to add AJAX to a web page. They automatically provide you with HTML, CSS and JavaScripts to perform certain...

Dreamweaver CS3 comes equipped with functions labeled Spry, which are a WYSIWYG way to add AJAX to a web page. They automatically provide you with HTML, CSS and JavaScripts to perform certain...

Web designers often need special fonts or stylized text in the headings on a web page. Many techniques for doing this exist. This article teaches you how to replace a heading with an image in a...

HTML elements can have attributes. For example, an A element can have an HREF attribute. An IMG element can have a TITLE attribute. Using attribute selectors in CSS provides an additional way to...

Microformats are standardized snippets of HTML that can be inserted in any blog or web page. These bits of HTML code are recognized by people, organizations, calendars, social networks and other...

Nvu is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor that is used to create web pages. It is available for free from nvudev.com and works on Windows, Mac and Linux. This article will show you how to write...

Even though the tools look the same, designing a web page is not word processing or desktop publishing. What you see is not what you get. You ultimately load your site in HTML, Hyper Text Markup...

Web design has come a long way in the past few years, and the good old standby of tables is no longer the accepted way to layout a web site. Though the look is still desired, browsers are more...

With cascading style sheets (CSS), you can specify automatic HTML formatting options that apply to an entire site. Although implementing style sheets in HTML can be complicated, Dreamweaver 3.0...