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There are many good reasons to use greek text to define your Web designs. But what many designers don't realize is that there are also many good reasons why not to use Greek text on Web page layouts.Text is Meant to Be Read The purpose behind "greeki...

How to Decide Which Design Style is Right for Your Site Web page layout can be done in two different ways: Fixed Width Layouts These are layouts where the width of the entire page is set with a specific numerical value. Liquid Layouts These are layou...

Question: What is the difference between padding and margins? Answer: Margins and padding can be confusing to the novice Web designer. After all, in some ways, they seem like the same thing: white space around an image or object. Padding is the space...

Definition: Whitespace is the empty spaces in a design. Whitespace is used to separate disparate design elements and group similar ones. Whitespace is the lack of graphics or text in the layout. Whitespace is not always "white" - it is the empty part...

When you're starting a new design, no matter what your design methodology is, you start with a blank page. There is nothing on the Web page - so the first thing you'll do is put something up on the page. But do you think about the placement of those...

When you want to build a Web site there are many things you need to think about and plan. This series of articles will take you through the steps to creating a Web site. I will show you the decisions I needed to make and what steps I took to build a...

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Image maps are an exciting and interesting way to liven up your Web site. And with the large number of image map editors available, you would be surprised at how simple it really is to create an image map, even by hand. What you need: an image an ima...

Blocking Right Click or the Context Menu One of the simplest ways to help prevent your images from being downloaded without your permission is to put up a no right-click script. When people right click on your page, they will either get no options to...

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Nearly every Web site has some photos on it, and a photo can do more to improve your site than the fanciest design. But the inverse is also true. If you have a bad photo or image on your site, especially if it's the logo or a product photo, you can d...

GIF Images Use GIF files for images that have a small number of colors. GIF files are always reduced to no more than 256 unique colors. The compression algorithm for GIF files is less complex than for JPEG files, but when used on flat color images and...

Images add interest and excitement to your Web pages, and they are fairly easy to add. The img tag has only two required attributes: src and alt. The src attribute tells the browser which image to display, and alt tells the browser what to display if...

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Filed In: Web Design Principles of Web Design Color Color Glossary...

I posted an article about browser safe Web colors. I got an email from Jason saying \"please don't encourage those newbies out there to produce even more putrid sites based on the antiquated 'web safe' color palette.\" While his letter then moved fro...

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What is Web Color Synchronization? Web color synchronization is the attempt to get your Web colors to look exactly the same on all the monitors that view it. Web color synchronization attempts to synchronize those colors and keep them in synch.Web Col...

There are four basic color schemes that you can use for a Web site. Each page of this article shows a picture of the color scheme, and how you can generate a similar scheme in Photoshop. monochromatic Using colors of the same hue. They may have diffe...

Once you understand the basics of color theory, you can start learning how to combine those colors into a harmonious whole. There are certain colorsthat look good together, while other colors look so painful you have to click away before they burn yo...

When many people first start building their Web pages, they create pages in colors that they like. If you're lucky or have a good eye, you'll end up with colors that look nice together. But it's very easy to set up a color scheme that clashes and is...

When is the last time you saw a Web site in black and white? Color is vital to the repertoir of your average Web designer, and yet many designers don't realize that the colors they choose may be having more of an effect than they realize. Colors are a...

When you're starting to create your Web page, keep in mind that there are manyways to add interest and vitality to your site. A great way is to use color. Colorcan be used in tables, as backgrounds, and fonts.Named Colors There are different ways of...

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The weight of a font is how dark or light it appears. This also refers to the boldness of a font face. Font Weights The default weight for a font is normal. If you are styling a document, and you're not sure what weight your current face is, you can...

There are many different measures you can use with your font sizes. But most people just use pixels or points and don't think any more about it. However, by doing that they may be causing problems for some readers. It's important to think about how y...

If you have been writing HTML for a while, you've probably come across the font tag. This is an old tag that allows you to set the font size, color and family. There are several problems with the font tag: It doesn't allow you to change all aspects o...

The most common way that Cascading Style Sheets are used is to change the font of a Web page or site. But in order to get the most out of the style sheets as well as the fonts, you should know a little about typography and how CSS works with fonts. T...