At first glance, some basic principles of graphic design like the “Golden Proportion” and the “Rule of Thirds” seem to have nothing to do with web design. But the truth is that they can be perfectly applied when creating web page layouts to make them look more pleasant and harmonious to the human eye. If you wish to learn how to implement these two fundamental principles when building your own web sites, then keep reading. In this series of articles you’ll find an approachable guide to putting these concepts into practice with both fixed and elastic web page designs. Discuss (1)
At last we have a web page menu code that can be used for any browser without any of its code segments being specific to any particular browser. I called the design approach of the previous series the Simple Layout Approach. I call the design approach in this series the Elaborated Layout Approach. In this last part of the series I give you a summary of the two design approaches. I also give you the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches. Everything in these two series is my conception.
A programming contest is a special kind of challenge -- one in which the most important fact is the knowledge with which you come to the contest and the intuition you will have during it. What really counts is not your level of physical fitness, but the state of your mind. To prepare for something like this requires a different approach. You will found out exactly what it takes if you read further.
Do you like the three-dimensional effects that dynamic shadows can add to your web site? In this three-part series, you'll learn how to create this effect with JavaScript and CSS. This first part shows you how to implement some basic CSS approaches to build a few primitive shadowed web page elements. Discuss (1)
If a user is burdened with a slow Internet connection, he will find that it takes time for a web page to be displayed (downloaded) to his client computer. Now there's a way to arrange it so that only the first page of his requested web site would take a long time to be downloaded; the rest of the pages would come very fast. This can be a real advantage. If you want to learn more about this approach, referred to as Active Client Pages, keep reading.
Many web site designers build beautiful pages, but if you ask them why they constructed a particular page in a certain way, they'll simply say that it looked good to them. There are design principles that predate the Internet; some of them even go back to ancient Greece and Rome, and they're as applicable today as they were then. If you still make pages that look good without knowing the science behind good design, this seven-part article series introduces you to concepts that you can consciously apply to your next web site design project. Discuss (1)
This is the eighth part of a nine-part series that shows you how to build a menu that will work in all browsers. Let us quickly look at the design of a vertical main menu in this part.
Would you like to learn how to be a better, more efficient programmer? Do you want to build optimized code that runs faster than anything you thought you could create? Then you might find that entering programming contests helps you sharpen your skills. Keep reading as we take a close look at what you can gain from pitting your programming skills against your peers from around the world.
As you are surfing the net, you notice that some web pages are very long. When such pages are downloaded, they generally take a long time to be displayed by the browser. In this article, I show you how you can design such long pages so that they download fast and are rendered (at the browser) fast. The secret is to use Active Client Pages.
In this conclusion to a three-part series on active client pages, I give you my enhancements to the Script Approach. I am the one who came up with the Script Approach. I derived it from Vlad’s work. Before I start my enhancements, let me talk about the store and Vlad’s Fake Get Method. Vlad himself calls one of his methods the Fake Get Method.
If you’re a web designer who’s seeking a comprehensive guide to the main features of the Blueprint CSS framework, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the final episode of a series that gives you a quick overview of Blueprint CSS framework. Comprised of seven friendly tutorials, this series gets you started using this robust CSS library, and shows you how to take advantage of its numerous capabilities, by means of a great variety of code samples. Discuss (1)
In this seventh part of a nine-part series on building a menu that works in all browsers, we complete the discussion of the JavaScript functions. We go on to see how we can use background images for menu items instead of background colors. We shall start winding up the series at the end of this part.
If you are new to the world of object-oriented programming, then your first thought after reading the title of this article is "what the heck could ever transform in code?" The answer is not so trivial that I can explain it in just a sentence, but join me throughout this article and you will get the idea.
The word virtual is strange enough on its own. It is defined philosophically as "that which is not real" but contains all of the properties of the real object. However, ultimately something virtual is "fake." Virtual functions are similar in concept, so follow along with me through this article to discover how to use them and when to do so in the C++ language.
In this part of the series, I give the principles of the Script Approach to Active Client Pages. I am the one who came up with these principles to suit the advantages I mentioned in the previous part of the series. In order for you to understand the Script Approach, I will have to explain the simple example we saw previously. This article is the second part of a three-part series.
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