February 23, 2012

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 [...]

Avoid complex HTML table layouts

HTML Code Layout - Indent it!

Tables were the first way of really controlling layouts and are still a preferred method for many webmasters (me included). CSS has made great strides towards controlling positioning elements, but older browsers don’t handle many of the elements very well. Heck. Some of the NEWER browsers don’t handle some of the elements very well. But [...]

Indent your HTML Code and close your HTML tags

HTML Code Layout - Indent it!

Regardless of what speed optimization experts tell you! Speed optimization is a great thing, but by leaving out closing tags on the TABLE elements and NOT indenting, you are making the readability of the code diminish. Most of us realistically are NOT getting thousands of hits per day where speed optimization like this is really [...]

Make your website cover the page!

HTML Code - Web Dev

By doing this, users with hi-res monitors don’t have a dinky little table with a lot of unused space around it. Conversely, you don’t have a user with a tiny monitor and low-res scrolling all over the place to read each line on your page. If users have to do a lot of horizontal scrolling [...]