This is the first part of a “Photoshop Website Design” series.

Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites.

By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design… More >>

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

What people are saying about CSS Cookbook “Christopher’s fantastic cookbook will give you solutions to pretty much all of the CSS problems you’ll come up against in your day-to-day web design work, saving you bags of time and frustration. This guy is one of the industry’s brightest minds — he really knows his stuff.”

–Chris Mills, Opera Software

Learn how to solve the real problems you face with CSS. This cookbook offers hundreds of pract… More >>

CSS Cookbook, 3rd Edition

This is a CSS Tutorial that will help you position an image using a div layer.

There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte.

This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.

Whether you’re a Web designer, project manager, or a gra… More >>

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

One of the primary implications of a well-organized / good website, is to keep your visitors in the website. A website is definitely created for a purpose, unless intended for personal use, which is the minority. For example, a portfolio website would want to be visited and it’s content viewed.

For companies and internet businesses, your website certainly aims to provide product information, to make sales, or somewhat similar. However, most individuals undoubtly prefer visually captivating designs, so on and so forth. It is undeniable that this causes no harm, but one must put himself/herself in other people’s shoes, as to understand how a visitor to the website might think, do and react.

Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates.

This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables… More >>

Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BLENDED HTML, XHTML, AND CSS provides you with beginning Web programming skills with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML and XHTML.

With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, you will think critically and understand WHY you’re learning WHAT you’re learning…. More >>

New Perspectives on Blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Introductory

Websites, like any marketing materials and business processes, needs to keep up with the times. Whether that means tweaking your website from time to time to keep it up to date or completely redoing it, is a decision that can only be made by you. Here are some questions to help you decide if it’s time.

1. When was the last time you updated your website design or functionality? If it’s been more than a year since you’ve done anything to your website other than add content, then it’s probably time to at least give your website a few touch-ups.

Many people still use slow internet connections. Because of this, Flash often causes a website to load slower than they have the patience to wait for. I will go over a few things you can do to make your Flash load much more quickly.

The first thing you can do is to be sure and use symbols for all the elements that show up in your movie more than one time. Symbols are elements that are in the library of your Flash movie. This way you will not have to add additional graphics to the movie library.

Sidebar buttons are a quick and easy way to affiliate with, promote, or endorse a company or website you believe it.

How you add a button to your sidebar depends in large part on the type of site you have.  For example if you have a WordPress blog then it’s going to be a different process than if you have a HTML site.

Here it is in a nutshell –

First you’ll want to click on the button image and save it on your desktop.  If you’re using Blogger then you’ll have to upload the image into an image host like Photobucket or Flickr.

Hit counters are all over the internet. You have probably seen them at the bottom of a webpage or two. They disclose the total number of visitors to the website.

Hit counters are used for two reasons. The first reason is to make it seem like the website is really popular and worth taking a close look at. The second reason is to allow the webmaster to have a good idea of how many people have visited their homepage.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BLENDED HTML, XHTML, AND CSS provides you with beginning Web programming skills with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML and XHTML. With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, you will think critically and understand WHY you’re learning WHAT you’re learning…. More >>

New Perspectives on Blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Introductory

Anchor links are an effective way to drive traffic to your website or to internal web pages by linking to them in your content. They’re usually referred to as a “link” or a “hyperlink”.

In many word processing programs, like MS Word, you can simply highlight the text you want to use to create the link and then click on the link icon in your toolbar. Once that pops up, you simply type or search for the appropriate page you want to link to and you’re good to go. If you convert that document into a PDF you’ll have to take extra measures or use the Adobe products themselves to retain the links but it’s fairly straightforward.

Usage of internet all over the world is on constant rise and newer technologies have come up to make it faster and better. Earlier dial-up connection was used by most of the internet users but now broadband is replacing it. Yet major portion of net users are hooked to dial-up connection for web connection.

Websites would load properly with this connection containing text part, but problem arises in image loading. They slow down the loading time, making the users irritated and restless. Thus balance has to be maintained between the image loading time and right amount of images necessary to attract users.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BLENDED HTML, XHTML, AND CSS provides you with beginning Web programming skills with in-depth coverage of CSS and its use with HTML and XHTML. With the New Perspectives proven pedagogy, you will think critically and understand WHY you’re learning WHAT you’re learning…. More >>

New Perspectives on Blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Introductory

Learn how to build your site and get it on the web in this video tutorial.

Html (hyper text markup language) has long been a barrier for first time web site builders. Non-technical people had very few options for making a website.

Modern software marketers claim that anyone with a computer and internet connection, can easily build websites without the need to learn HTML.

In this article we discuss if this is really true or not.

With some new web software programs, the emphasis has moved away from “coding” to more of a step-by-step user friendly approach. Web pages can be “auto generated” by typing words on a page. Many programs use WYSIWYG technology. This stands for “what you see is what you get”.

Dreamweaver CS4 is a massive step forward in terms of integration with the rest of the CS4 suite (Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.), and also includes a whole host of exciting new features of its own.

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP concentrates on getting the best out of Dreamweaver CS4, rather than going into every menu item and toolbar icon. The emphasis is on developing websites compliant with the latest web standards, using CSS, … More >>

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

Complete just the first two tutorial sessions to develop the HTML skills that you need to start creating fully functional and effective Web pages.

Over the weekend, complete as many of the other optional tutorial sessions as you want to further extend your knowledge of more advanced topics like adding colors and backgrounds, using tables, working with frames and forms, using styles, and creating multi-column page layouts. Learn to create standard HTML 4.01 Web pages… More >>

Learn HTML 4 In a Weekend, 4th Edition