Web Pages That Suck learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design Home Page Large Website Backgrounds Do’s and Don’ts Large backgrounds make a very impressive visual impact on websites. A web designer has the possibility to play with different design variables that are usually used by photographers, such as depth of field or focus. The background does not have to be just photos, but also any other large illustration or even video. In this article you will learn about the different large background styles and how to use them. You will also find out about the impact that large backgrounds has on bandwidth and site performance in general. Large Background Styles Essentially there are many different styles, but the most commonly used styles on websites are: * Photographs as backgrounds * Graphics and illustrations as backgrounds * Animations as backgrounds Photographs and illustrations are most widely used, animations are still experimental, but as bandwidth is becoming cheaper and Internet connection speeds are getting faster, more websites can afford to use these. Common Mistakes Using Large Backgrounds
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Simple JavaScript DropDown Menu with timeout effect « Scripts and Tricks « JavaScript DHTML Tutorials It is a One Level Menu with Timeout effect. If you are looking for advanced script, see the Multi-Level Drop-Down Menu based on simple treelike unordered list. Internet has a lot of scripts with the name "Drop Down Menu". One day I needed to make such menu for my site. I have rummaged a heap of sites and archives with scripts. And I just wrote this simple script: Sample This menu can be located anywhere on the page: HTML Code HTML code is very simple and without tables. Parent items and hidden layers have unique identifiers. CSS Code <li> tag have loat: left; declaration. sumbmenu layer have visibility: hidden; and position: absolute;. Everything else is usual decoration: JavaScript Code Insert this code between your <head></head> tags. Thats it!
7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code | CSS Advertisement Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the slightest bit of complexity, it’s not long before that 30 KB ideal is well out of my reach. With the popularity of CSS layouts and JavaScript-enriched web page experiences, it’s not uncommon, particularly for large sites, for the CSS files alone to jump well beyond that 30KB ceiling. But there are some principles to consider during and after you write your CSS to help keep it tight and optimized. 1. If you’re not already writing in shorthand, you’re late to the party. Margin, border, padding, background, font, list-style, and even outline are all properties that allow shorthand (and that’s not even an extensive list!). CSS Shorthand means that instead of using different declarations for related properties… … you may use shorthand properties to combine those values like so: 2. 3.
Drag and drop table rows with Javascript Summary: This article tells you how to implement drag and drop for HTML tables in Javascript. You can download the source here and play with the demo here. Updated: now copes with multiple tables on the same page, non-drag and non-drop rows (such as headers) and embedding form elements. Also see my jQuery plug-in which does much more. There are many articles on implementing drag and drop in Javascript and many excellent frameworks and libraries that provide you with everything you need. Drag and Drop basics I won’t spend a great deal of time explaining the basics of drag and drop. The steps you need are: capture the mouse move event for the whole document so you can track where the mouse is.capture the onmouseup event for the whole document so we know when our dragged thing is dropped.add onmousedown functions for each draggable row so that we know which row is being dragged. Setting up the event handlers The onmouseup method is much more straight forward. Getting the coordinates Which rows?
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