In my opinion, the most common mistake web designers make is this: Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. Don’t use technology simply for the sake of using technology. Here are some things that I think should never be done in web design: Don’t make everyone register…
In my opinion, the key to a good website is simplicity. Make it easy for a visitor to find all the information they need, and they will stay. Make it difficult, and they will leave. That being said, here are a few things to do if you would like to…
Overview First of all, if you have a business of any kind, you need a website. Believe it or not, some businesses still do not have websites. Secondly, and more to the point, it’s not good enough anymore to just have a website. I suppose you could argue that a…
Overview As developers use CSS, oftentimes they’ll come across situations where multiple stylesheet rules are being applied to the same element on the page. When multiple rules target the same element, how does CSS decide which rules take priority? Enter in the concepts of order and inheritance in CSS. Overall,…
Overview Over the past few posts, we’ve reviewed the fundamentals of CSS. In this post, we are nearing the end of fundamentals with an overview of the <div> and <span> tags. These elements are extremely important to web design, and are a must-know if you want to design web pages…