Month: January 2013

Hover, Link and Visited Pseudo Classes

Following HTML, XHTML And CSS For Dummies, Chapter 12 7th Edition. Whilst following this book, I came across this section and already know this is something I need to do to my navigation of my website. Using these Pseudo classes These Pseudo classes: :hover, :link, and :visited Will help users to know what page they’re […]

Postioning

Following HTML, XHTML And CSS For Dummies, Chaper 12 7th Edition Positioning controls define where elements appear on a page, how elements relate to each other and how text flows (or not) around elements. Top, left, bottom and right properties come into play here and elements may be positioned absolutely or relatively (relative to the […]

Spacing Properties: Margin and Padding

Following HTML, XHTML And CSS For Dummies, Chaper 12 7th Edition Margins define the space around the edges of block elements that background colours dont fill. Padding defines space around the edges for the block elements that background colours do fill. Margin is a shortcut property. If you apply a single value, it will apply […]

Top CSS Properties

Screen Based Communication 2 To help me to learn about HTML and CSS, I am working through ‘HTML, XHTML And CSS For Dummies’ 7th Edition. Following the tutorials and demonstrations. This below is example from Chapter 12. As a CSS concept, background refers to numerous properties (six in total!) introduced with CSS 1.0 to manage […]

Research – Research Screen Based Communication 2 I’m currently reading HTML, XHTML and CSS for Dummies, the information below is from Chapter 9, Introducing Cascading Style Sheets. Understanding CSS: CSS has come to take over the presentation role much more capably and effectively than HTML ever could. The goal of CSS is to separate a […]

Screen Based Communication 2 My latest project is to design and build a website of my own as an online portfolio. I’m currently following the ‘HTML, XHTML and CSS’ for Dummies 7th Edition’ book and continuing on my previous experiments: From my last post, I have explored further into HTML elements such as; Handling white […]

Screen Based Communication 2 My latest project is to design and build a website of my own as an online portfolio. I’m currently following the ‘HTML, XHTML and CSS’ for Dummies 7th Edition’ book and continuing on my previous experiments. The image above is experimenting with how headers show once formatted and previewed. Headers break […]

Experiments – Project Screen Based Communication 2 This experiment is the first of my own practice with html: Following ‘HTML, XHTML and CSS for Dummies’, in Chapter 2 ‘Creating and Viewing a Web Page’ where the tutorial is to create a web page from scratch. Using HTML to create a Web Page from scratch takes […]

Screen Based Communication 2 Tutorial, An Introduction to Web Design This tutorial is the first of our Web Design sessions. Here we learned how to structure a page through Photoshop and Dreamweaver with the slice tool. So here is what we did and I’ll walk through the steps for anyone who wants to give it […]