Posted on June 22, 2009, 3:50 pm, by AJ.
Have you ever seen  appearing on your web pages or SSI, but no idea of how it got there? That is what’s known as a Byte Order Mark or BOM, and it happens to be one of the most annoying little critters you will ever come across (when building web pages, that is).
So what [...]
Posted on June 19, 2009, 7:08 pm, by AJ.
These are the 2 most common ways to design a web page. Your choice is either a fixed width, OR a fluid design that stretches the full width of the page. There are advantages and drawbacks to both. Many designers will tell you they are the only two choices you have. Not true, but more [...]
Posted on June 19, 2009, 7:00 pm, by AJ.
A capped width fluid web page
for those that have read the post on fluid versus fixed webpages, you will know what I’m talking about when I say “the Oprah effect”.
I discussed some of the benefits of a capped width, fluid web page. In other words, the page will expand with wider monitors, only to a [...]
Posted on June 17, 2009, 9:20 pm, by AJ.
A table based webpage layout – how to get it right for the search engines
A purely css based layout is obviously ideal. That’s all part of the push to separate styling from structure, on web pages. So in the perfect world, we keep a table for holding tabular data.
But not everybody is a css wizz. [...]