May 18, 2012

Web Graphics Tips

Photoshop Image - Know and use your tools to your benefit

Reminding you of the web graphics things that you already know but hadn’t thought about in a while Use anti-aliasing settings turned on whenever possible. This will allow the program to blend the edges for you while you’re still creating. This works MUCH better when working with JPG images. It is NOT so useful if [...]

Web Graphics – What they mean to your website

Purple Pandemonium originally from the Unlimited Dreams website

Good graphics should be clean, clear and provide something useful to the site.They set the mood and tone of your site as do the general colors involved in your site. They will create a sense of your site as well as show if you really know what you’re doing or are just hacking along. Creating [...]

Use OPTION EXPLICIT. Period.

Use OPTION EXPLICIT

That just can’t be stressed enough. Use it for your own benefit. It seems like it is a pain to have to declare or DIM all of your variables, there is NOTHING worse than getting several hundred lines into a page with variables that you have setup as globals and then some that are inside [...]

Using Classic ASP Scripting

HTML Code Layout - Indent it!

Why use ASP scripting? Scripting languages provide a method to add functionality and interactivity to your web pages.Simple HTML pages can be given added functionality with the addition of small chunks of code. ASP, ASP.NET and PHP are the primary scripting languages. ASP is a server-side technology as opposed to Javascript or ECMAScript which are [...]

Test your HTML code while you are developing it

It is very painful to develope a KILLER HTML layout only to discover that it doesn’t work well at all in browser X. Do yourself a favor and test it as you go. After you’ve finished creating a new phase in your layout, test it in several other browsers. Older Netscape versions tend to do [...]