It is amazing that many web developers still use onload method embedded in the BODY tag, like <HEAD> <BODY onload=”document.contact.userID.focus();”> <form name=”contact”> <input type=”text” name=”userID” > </form> </BODY> </HEAD> There are two problems with this line of code. Embedding code (behavior) with HTML (structure) makes it difficult to maintain the page. onload() method will executes […]
Color coordination plays a big role in the look and feel of a website. An appealing color scheme is an important prerequisite for eye-catching web design. Dull or very sharp colors or mismatch colors will not only look ugly it may overshadow other nice elements of your website. Choosing vibrant, harmonious colors that are pleasant […]
Positioning text in the center of an element is easily done using text-align:center property. But how do you position an entire element, for e.g; a div or an image in the center of the containing parent element? For example, if you want to put an image at the center of your header div how do […]
I have TwitterTools plugin to tweet my new blog posts to my twitter account. Recently I noticed that my tweets from TwitterTools plugin do not have the URL to my posts. I checked my plugin settings and everything looked OK.
One of the challenges web designers face is to get various web browsers render their web pages in a consistent manner. The reason is every browser assigns slightly different default styles to certain page elements. A simple approach to handle this cross-browser inconsistency is to overwrite browsers’ default styles. This technique is known as resetting […]
Earlier this week WordPress 2.9.1 was released to fix some minor bugs found in release 2.9. It also fixes the annoying issue some bloggers faced with posts scheduling and pingbacks. It is always a good idea to keep your WordPress installation (and all plugins) uptodate, so I would strongly encourage you to upgrade to 2.9.1 […]
While you are celebrating the arrival of the new year, don’t forget to update the year on the copyright notice on your blog. The simplest way is to edit the file and replace 2009 with 2010, but a better solution would be to replace the year in your copyright declaration with following line of PHP […]
One of earliest third party tools that I started using for Twitter is TwitterFeed. This service automatically tweets your new blog posts for you. I have been using TwitterFeed for almost two years and I wrote about this service when I started using this. I am quite satisfied with this service but I am switching […]
One of the widely used WordPress is the More tag. This tag is used split a post so that only a portion of the post is displayed on the front page. When WordPress sees More tag, it inserts a link to next line of the post. By default the text of the link is “Read […]
If you have been blogging regularly for more than few months, chances are you have quite a few posts on your blog. That is a good thing. As a blogger you are supposed to blog regularly to provide useful and relevant information to your blog readers. But unless you dictate how your homepage is displayed […]