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10 Things to do When Designing a Website

Joe Valdez — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:59:35 +0000

1. Be Creative and Original

When designing a website, you want it to stand out not look like everything else. Look up the competition and see how your site can differ, in a positive way. Being creative however doesn’t mean re-inventing the wheel.

CSS: Things to Avoid

Joe Valdez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:47:16 +0000

1. Avoid not resetting the browsers default setting.

When creating a new website or web page, the first thing you should do is reset everything to zero. Browsers have their own default settings, mainly for padding and margins. Resetting all the tags to zero will ensure you start from scratch. Once you have used a reset CSS file, you can now start on styling your page.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style/reset-min.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

See our blog posting on this…

The Basics of CSS

Joe Valdez — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:46 +0000

This section will only be helpful if you know the basic understanding of HTML.

What is CSS?

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the standard way of presenting and formatting a web page. The middle word, Style, basically describes its purpose. Think of CSS as a theme, kind of like a theme applied to your computer, phone, a blog or even your email. CSS will provide the look and feel of that theme, and that theme being applied to your web page. CSS is mostly applied to HTML and XHTML written pages, it can also be used to style XML formatted pages.