Neat Redesign

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 generally accepted that anything that appears below the fold is invisible to the website visitor. Does this still hold true?

A recent research by UIE revealed that users scroll if there is a clue that there is something below the fold.

But should we now forget the ‘above the fold’ rule and format our pages however we want? Probably not.

Recently MyNeatSite has officially become a Microsoft Small Business Specialist (as seen on our homepage).

As one of MyNeatSite is a Microsoft Certified Professional, our company is entitled to be certified for Microsoft Small Business Specialist. This ensures that at least one of us has a total understanding of small business and can apply his knowledge to our clients’ and our clients clients’ needs.

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.

Introduction

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.

As you may have already noticed, we have switched to presenting full posts in our RSS feeds.

Does anyone find that inconvenient or otherwise unpleasant to deal with? If so, please leave us a comment. If possible, tell us why you prefer full posts over excerpts.

Does anyone like the full posts in their RSS aggregators? If so, why?