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WYSIWYG Layout Editor, Semantic. Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine. Advertisement CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry.

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started « Smashing Magazine

Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and design, and any Web professional must have some general knowledge of it. If you are getting your feet wet with CSS, this is the perfect time to fire up your favorite text editor and follow along in this tutorial as we cover the most common and practical uses of CSS. Overview: What We Will Cover Today We’ll start with what you could call the fundamental properties and capabilities of CSS, ones that we commonly use to build CSS-based websites: Once you are comfortable with the basics, we will kick it up a notch with some neat tricks to build your CSS website from scratch and make some enhancements to it. 1.

Most beginners get padding11 and margins12 mixed up and use them incorrectly. What Is Padding and Margin? Take a look at the visual below: Margin and Padding Values Quick Tip 2. 3. 4. How to implement a mobile version of your blog in three simple s. After launching of the mobile version of woork I received a lot of messages from my readers that asked to me to dedicate a special post about this topic.

How to implement a mobile version of your blog in three simple s

So in this post I want to illustrate you a simple way to implement a mobile version of your blog/website in three simple steps using Mobify.me, an awesome on-line service that allow you to design mobile versions of a website just with some clicks. Step 1: Select sections for your mobile layoutFirst thing to do is to create an account on Mobify.me. It's simple and free. Than you have to choose the URL of the website you want to "Mobify". It appears an interface that allows you to choose sections to add to the mobile version of your website. Remember that, in order to improve readability, templates for a mobile device have to be simple, preferably with a single-column layout. Label Placement in Forms.

By Matteo Penzo Published: July 12, 2006 “We were able to subject Luke’s theories to usability testing and enrich them through the power of numeric data.”

Label Placement in Forms

In using eyetracking to evaluate the usability of search forms for my previous article for UXmatters, “Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach,” we discovered much interesting data. I’ll provide an in-depth analysis of that data here. Please note that our ad-hoc test setup didn’t resemble real-world conditions. We based our test setup on Luke Wroblewski’s article “Web Application Form Design.”

Luke provided valuable insights and feedback during both our test preparation and results analysis. During the process of building the forms that we would test, we tried to respect Luke’s suggestions regarding the relationship between label placement and formatting and the type of form content—well-known data versus unfamiliar data that requires thought. Test 1: Left-Aligned Labels to the Left of Input Fields. Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch. Advertisement HTML5 and CSS3 have just arrived (kinda), and with them a whole new battle for the ‘best markup’ trophy has begun.

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

Truth to be told, all these technologies are mere tools waiting for a skilled developer to work on the right project. As developers we shouldn’t get into pointless discussions of which markup is the best. They all lead to nowhere. Rather, we must get a brand new ideology and modify our coding habits to keep the web accessible. While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now.

Framework CSS — mettez vos grilles au pas ! Home: Yet Another Multicolumn Layout. 60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts. In terms of creating a website (corporate or personal) it don’t have to be coded from scratch anymore.

60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts

That means you probably don’t have to start from a blank .PHP, .CSS or .HTML document. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are distributed freely over the Internet. Even if you are not too familiar with web designing, you too can have a professionally looking website. All you need to do is find a suitable template, tweak the designs and styles, pump in your contents. There are tonnes of templates sites out there, that makes searching for a free yet high quality templates hard and tedious, so we attempted to collect and showcase you some of really good ones.

While you are at it, here are some design related articles you might be interested: Full list after jump. GreefiesThis is a template that uses no tables, css and HTML only.Demo | Download Beauty coDemo | Download Beez designDemo | Download RedishDemo | Download FacingDemo | Download. Float-less CSS layout.