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Six Ways That CSS Will Change Your Life

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) makes creating and maintaining websites easier for web developers and designers.

Six great reasons for using CSS:

1.Uncluttered source code. Your markup will be easier to write and maintain. It will also look more professional and clean by using CSS and web standards markup.
2.Separating your content from your design. Since the entire style markup will be in one separate file, there is no need to search through a long page of HTML trying to find that one design element you need to change.
3.Better SEO. Search engine spiders will happily crawl through your uncluttered markup, providing them with easier access to your content and keywords.
4.Design consistency. Use a single CSS file to provide visual cohesion across all the pages of your website.
5.Serve up pages faster. Save money on bandwidth, and serve up pages quicker to visitors by reducing file sizes through CSS and cleaner code.
6.Display your content across a variety of media. Designate different CSS files to display your website correctly for those that access the Internet using smartphones and tablets.

Make your life less complex. Once you start using CSS and valid markup, you will wonder how you ever survived without it.

Which FTP Program Should You Be Using?

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

If you are new to the world of websites and blogs and are looking for a low cost program to upload files to your website, then look no further than Filezilla. This is an open source program from Mozilla that is free to download. The program is from the same people who produced the popular Firefox browser. It is a dependable program and is used by many people and has good help features at the Mozilla website in the form of frequently asked questions as well as user forums.

The Filezilla program is essentially a file manager program that has the capability of transferring files to your website. If all you want to do is transfer files, the setup is quite simple. You need only enter the host name along with your administration password for your site and you will connect. Then simply go to the directory that contains the files you want to upload from your hard drive. Select them with your mouse and drag them over to the right side of the screen which displays the directory from your website. The files will copy over one by one. This program has many features that make is suitable for more advanced users, but the process of file transfer cannot be easier for a beginner.Want to know more? Go ahead: Exporting your Filezilla Settings

Adobe PhotoShop: A Web Designer’s Best Friend

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is a web designer’s best friend in so many ways. It is the single most important piece of software ever developed for graphic design and webpage photo editing. It is useful for preparation of photos, editing large content and can be used to convert file types to web ready pictures. Photoshop has grown in size as a program over the decades, but it has always remained true to the basic photographic principles that are integral and the heart of the software. The use of photomontage and graphical techniques for web developers are very important. Weather editing photos for news articles, retouching digital pictures, resizing or reshaping pictorial content for the web, Adobe Photoshop has been the most important tool ever developed for graphic editing. No other single software tool is more efficient at the type of work. Because of what it allows designers to do, it is the most successful piece of software ever. It has been used in more award winning design work and photography than any comparable software for graphic design. Adobe Photoshop can interface with the Adobe Design Suite for an incredible number of other useful things like letter styling and video editing as well.

Why Accessibility For Every Visitor Is So Important

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

As a coder of sites, making sure that the site you are creating and implementing is accessible by the general public, and by all who want to visit it, is essential for that business you are creating and coding the site for. You must make sure the site can be seen by, and can be accessed by all who want to visit, especially those who are going to be potential customers to a site, whose page you are developing and implementing. The acccessibility of a site will determine the amount of traffic a site gets, and the amount of potential sales a business will attain.

So, rather than making a fancy site, where only certain people are going to enjoy and want to access, making a user friendly site, where all web surfers are going to love visiting, is a much better approach to take in implementing the site and its content. Knowing that all visitors will like the layout, design choices, and the overall content of the site, is something which developers and coders must consider when building the site. So, a manageable and easy to follow site, is much more accessible to the general public who will be visiting it.