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Prettier Accessible Forms It can be time consuming to make web forms both pretty and accessible. In particular, laying out forms where the form label and input are horizontally adjacent, as in the image below, can be a real problem. We used to use tables, which worked well in this scenario—but forms don’t constitute tabular data, so it’s a semantic faux pas Build and preview your CSS web font stacks! Want to preview your own header text? Just edit any box and hit "Return" to update. Paragraph text is static. Ideal Font Website Navigation I Step 1 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… One of the best ways to learn and grow in Photoshop is to deconstruct and attempt to recreate designs that inspire you. So in that spirit, lets jump in and take a closer look at the LittleLines.com navigation to see what we can learn about how they initially created their lovely little nav bar. Notice all the details in the expanded view below, the borders, gradients, sizes and colors. In instances like this, the zoom tool can be your best friend.
CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions - Smashing Magazine Advertisement In Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of any company. DD_roundies: Code-only rounded HTML boxes 2011/4/8: It is high time I update the documentation here. This plugin got as far as supporting IE8 Release Candidate 1. That was a while ago. Things have changed. I spent some time away from the project before IE8 final was released. When I came back to it, much had changed.
Green Website Showcase Green Website Showcase Color Wheel Pro says Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. 10 Tips to Create a More Usable Web Whether it’s your portfolio, a blog, a marketing web site, or a collection of games, we all want to attract visitors to our website and to ensure that they have a pleasant experience. Usability measures the level of a user’s experience and can be characterized by how easily a given task can be completed; whether it’s done with prior knowledge, or by having the user learn a new way to interact. I think Jakob Nielson probably explained it best when he said: “Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The word “usability” also refers to methods for improving ease–of–use during the design process.” In this article I hope to give you some form of a usability checklist, covering topics from form design to simple navigation tips that you can apply to any Web project.
Fancy Form Design Using CSS Article Every day this week, we’ll be publishing an article that’s been hand picked by our editor, as part of CSS Theme Week. Forms. Is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of grown web designers? I think that the reputation of forms as an untamable, ugly necessity has arisen for two reasons: Form elements are derived from native operating system widgets, which makes them particularly difficult to style.Forms are often critical to the function of a web site — they’re most often employed as search boxes, inquiry forms, or shopping cart checkouts — and need to function as smoothly as possible in order to meet user expectations.
DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache! 2011/4/8: This is no longer an actively maintained project. I apologize, I must move on with current events. This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss. You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS. Is WordPress Screwing Up Your SEO? Ever since WordPress burst on the scene and gained huge popularity among designers, developers and Joe Blow bloggers, it has become shockingly easy to create SEO-friendly content. WordPress handles everything for you: Pretty spider-friendly URLs, semantic content, accessibility, and structurally accurate heading tags. Wait — scratch that last one. I’ve always been suspicious that WordPress’s HTML heading structure was slightly off, and recently my suspicions have been (evidently) confirmed.