Category: HTML and CSS
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How do your web site look?
This is the tough question that BrowserShots.org web site anwsers for you. They provide a simple way to test your web site in a large variety of configurations and browsers. This is a very nice idea founded on the voluntary help of computers installed all over the world (widely distributed architecture). This way, you will…
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Why tables for layout is stupid
Even if I am usually in favor of designing web sites using tables, I wanted to provide a link to an interesting article taking exactly the opposite position: Why tables for layout is stupid. For those wondering, my preference goes to HTML tables because they are easier to implement the 3-column designs that I prefer…
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Free icons of good quality
Mark James, a part-time web developper, produced more than a thousand slick little icons that are distributed freely on famfamfam.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that if you want to use them, you only have to remember to state clearly that Mark James is the author and…
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WordPress statistics – Follow-up (Google Analytics)
I previously presented here my opinion about several tools to collect statistics for a web site (Alexa.com, Performancing metrics, Webalyzer). Then, I started by writing about the existence of Google Analytics, the still-in-beta-test offer from the American search engine giant. But I could not test it because Google did not provide an invitation to the…
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IE7 is on us, let’s prepare our sites
I need to look into this quickly now that Internet Explorer 7 is seriously ready to reach all of our PCs. There will be news, there will be chanes and uour web sites may suddenly break down because of that. For it, RegDeveloper offer its help with an article on preparing your web site for…
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Web site: 8 mistakes to avoid
It’s not only that when creating a web site you have to make it as easy to use as possible, but these things seem not to change with time. WebMonkey gives us a fine list of these mistakes no web designer should allow himself: Links that don’t change color when visited Breaking the back button…
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Pages moved, inform the user but don’t tell
Actually, on my web site, a number of pages have been moved around in the last year. Additionally, some pages are now located so deeply in the site structure that access paths are quite convoluted. The solution seems to go through the use of server page redirection. In Apache (the web server roumazeilles.net is based…