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I had a meeting with a client a few weeks ago and I shocked myself completely. The client requested that I design a Flash intro for his site. Before I could think twice the words had already come out of my mouth. "Why do you want a Flash intro for your site?" I asked. His response was t...
read moreWhat is the difference between your regular ole Flash site and a professional one? Well, it largely comes down to opinion, but there are also some key elements to look at. I've learned after viewing Flash sites for years that the ones that catch readers' attention more than anything are the ones w...
read moreFor many years we have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult to type, remember and preserve. The use of URLs has actually improved little thus far, but changes are afoot in both development practices and Web server technology that should help advance URLs to the next generati...
read moreUsing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) you can easily change the coloring of your browser scroll bars. Why would you want to do this? Well it further customizes your site and gives the visitor a sense of uniformity within the site. But all in all, it is a preference, some designers like it, some don' t...
read moreThe other day I saw this photograph in a magazine which showed a steaming tea cattle, with its handle on the same side as its nozzle [or the mouth, or whatever it is called], with a caption, "A Sadistic Product Design." In the same way, there are sites that are, sometimes it seems, specifically de...
read moreOnce upon a time, in the dark ages of the Early Internet, there were no images on the web pages (in fact, this is poetic - no images, on the web pages). There were just links. Hyperlinks, hyperlinks everywhere, and not an image to click. But as the Internet and the browsing technology improve...
read moreEvery action has a beginning phase where you launch your activity, a middle period in which you must sustain and develop it, and a conclusion. Many people set up a website enthusiastically but then they find that they don't have the skills or knowledge to maintain and develop it. So, what are the c...
read moreA few days ago, an incident happened to me that has prompted the writing of this article. I'm sure that if this is an issue for me and one of my Web sites, it's an issue for many others. With my personal Web site, I use a nationally known Internet Host provider to host it. They've hosted my s...
read moreIn a previous article I argued that the reason why gray text is used more and more on the web is because it looks better than black text from a distance, and since designers do not really read the text on sites they design, they prefer the visually better looking alternative. I also offered a soluti...
read moreCSS is an exciting feature of HTML that gives Web-site developers more control over how they want their pages displayed by specifying how each element should appear in a style sheet. Prior to the advent of CSS, the layouts of HTML documents were left up to the browsers, whilst HTML tags merely serve...
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