Sure, there may be a lot of articles on how to choose a web designer and that may seem trivial as well. But how do you work with the web designer to get what you want as quickly as possible? Let’s see.
Fluid (or liquid) design has gained a lot of attention since web designers started using CSS for web sites. Sure, why not. But what is a liquid design for a site owner?
First of all, why is it called fluid?.
A design is called fluid (or liquid, flexible) when the width and the height of the page layout adapt to screen resolution or browser window.
Generally, you may as well leave the decision of how many columns you need on your site to your web designer. But, still, you need to know whether you’ll be going in the right direction. Here is what you need to know.
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”.
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):