Web Designer's Reference
Web Designer's Reference provides an integrated approach to web design. Each of the chapters covers a specific aspect of creating a web page, such as working with typography, adding images, creating navigation, and crafting CSS layouts. In each case, relevant XHTML elements are explored along with associated CSS, and visual design ideas are discussed. More ...
What is that Double Forward Slash in the URL?
Someone is accessing your site with a URL that contains a double forward slash. This causes all relative links on the page will be broken. This means any relative linked scripts or styles will not be loaded. More ...
How to Set Up a Google Search Box on Your Website
A search box as an element in enabling site accessibility and navigation. A search box provides an alternative way for people to find things at your site. This article explains how to embed a Google search box on Your Website. More ...
Video - Optimizing the Order of Scripts and Styles
This video by Tony Gentilcore, software engineer at Goggle, shows you two easy-to-implement yet high-impact techniques for speeding up your web pages. For example, a script included before a CSS file may cause the browser to block. More ...
How to Hide From Robots
A "robot" is a program that search engines use to follow links, read web pages, and create indexes of the information they find on the web pages. There are several reasons why you might want to prevent robots from indexing your web page. More ...
Creating a Secure Website Using Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
When setting up a website that will require payment through credit card it is important to have a minimum level of security. One protocol that has effectively become the de facto standard for website security is Secure Socket Layer (or SSL). More ...
Six Ways to Center an Element on a Webpage
This article gives you six different ways to center an element on a webpage, the one you choose depending upon whether you need to add other elements to the left or right of the centered element and how robust and browser version compatible your method needs to be. More ...
Increase Your Traffic by Recovering Your Lost Visitors
When an error is encountered, your server will display specific generic error pages according to the error. These error pages are not only dead ends, but they are also very frustrating for your potential visitors. More ...
Web Design Troubleshooting Guide
Getting your web site to look right can sometimes be a hair-pulling experience. Even for professional web designers! I can only imagine how frustrated many newbies can get. Let me share with you some of the common problems in designing a well-functioning web site. More ...
How to Strengthen Website Authentication
To achieve strong authentication on the Web, IT professionals must find a balance among three separate forces whose goals are often at odds: the cost and security needs of the company, the impact on user behavior, and the motivations of the would-be attacker. More ...
RSS Basics
Understanding and using RSS feeds is critical to today's webmasters and bloggers. Being able to syndicate news of new information added can drive traffic to your site. In addition to revenue from increased traffic, RSS provides many other marketing opportunities, such as in-feed advertising and higher search engine ranking. More ...
What is AJAX?
One of the most recent buzz words going around the Internet is "AJAX". What is AJAX? Is it a new and extremely powerful programming language? Is it an all-purpose cleaner? In plain-simple English, what exactly is AJAX? More ...
