Welcome to my blog! This is where I write my thoughts on various issues such as meditation, books I have enjoyed, website development, being a mother and so on. If you are interested in a particular topic, then check the section under categories. I hope you will find something here that might interest you. So, sit back and read along.
The concept of alternate stylesheets is exactly as the name suggests using alternative stylesheets to change the look of a web page with a click. This makes the website utilizing this technique a little more personalized. The other inherent benefit of this feature is complete separation of content and presentation in a web page, the ideal goal for any website.
Adding an alternate stylesheet is pretty easy. (more…)
When I started using div’s rather than table for web page layout, the most daunting experience for me was how to create columns using div’s. So, here is the solution for all those website developers who are struggling to use div’s for web page layout.
The <div> tag can be defined as the division in a web page. It is a block level element. This implies that the default behavior of div’s is to stack up one above the other. This serves the purpose of using div’s for a simple web page layout where all the elements stack one above the other. When we have a columnar web page layout (which happens to be the most common layout for majority of the websites), we need to know how to use div’s to create two or more columns in a web page. (more…)
At Ecommerce Partners.net, we (HTML Production Department) were producing html codes for websites using tables for layout. Ah, good old tables! Then about three months ago, XHTML was made the standard in our company. This implied all our websites are now coded using XHTML, no HTML at all.
Well, that’s no problem! All we need to do is:
1. add the right Document Type Definitions;
2. close all our tags including empty tags;
3. all tags should be in lowercase; and
4. all tags must be properly nested
We could handle this for sure. (more…)