It is not unknown that web designers need to create an Internet Explorer only layout in addition to a web standards compliant one. Is there an easy and efficient way to create an IE-only layout without confusing or turning away those who use other browsers?
Surely, such a way exists and it is called “conditional elements”.
Apart from simply recognizing the need to market your product or service to the physically-challenged people and making your site accessible, you may as well rejoyce to know that Google Accessible Search can now give higher ranking to your accessible website.
Basically, Google currently values sites with simple markup that degrades nicely with images (and probably CSS - screen readers don’t understand CSS, most likely) turned off.
If you want to start using CSS but don’t know where to start, this may be the right place for you. Read how you can start using CSS below.
Basically, CSS is the code, inline, internal or external, applying to the HTML code of the webpage. The beauty of the code is that it allows applying similar styling to similar elements throughout the site - the data may be stored only in one or two external files.
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Learn what CSS is and why use it from this tutorial and redesign your site with CSS.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet(s). This is a technique, lately acquired world-wide recognition, to design quick, user-friendly and good looking sites (a mix hard to come by when using tables). It is used to separate presentation (positioning, styling and coloring) and content.
Sure, designing a site for all browsers takes time, efforts and, sometimes, nerves. Is there an easy way to create cross-browser compatible designs with the least possible amount of effort?
There has a lot been said about download speed of websites and how it affects website visitors. But since the connection speed researches are out-dated now and some have broadband, does website download speed matter at all?
There have been a lot of studies on the influence of download speed on the visitors.
Some are really dated, even extinct now (Zona Research, “The Economic Impacts of Unacceptable Web Site Download Speeds”, circa 1998):