Web Design Tutorials Made Easy

How many times have your printed a website only to realize that the content portion of the page doesn’t fit? Or 80% of the page being taken up by ads, headers, and other ink intensive items you wish weren’t there? In this article we will be discussing how to prevent these headaches from your visitors. We spend hours agonizing over how our sites look on the screen, why wouldn’t we spend a few moments getting it to look stellar on paper too?

Setting it Apart
First step to the path of print happiness is that of learning to access the print style. There are two ways that I suggest to do this. Either way will let you specify elements to specify style specific to the printed page.

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Images are an important part of a web site. And there are so many formats to save your images in that it can be quite confusing as to which format to use.

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) has been the web’s default image for many years. This is traditionally used for images that are flat colors in nature and rather simple. GIF is best used on logos, buttons, bars, backgrounds, and other simple graphics.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is the standard format for photos that are used on the internet. Use this format for all of your photos, small or large. There are 16.7 million colors available with JPEG and a good compression rate as well.

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I am sure that all of us at one time have developed a website with more
than one column. In the past (back in my tables days) columns and rows
were a huge part of my designs. Things are about to change. In the
midst of cross-browser support issues with CSS2, A List Apart has a wonderfully written article that dives into the specifics of the proposed addition to the CSS standard (CSS3).
Funny thing is this was proposed in draft from in 2001. I for one would
find this very useful and a much needed time saver when coding column
websites. Take a moment and read their article.

One last thing to note is the compatibility, according to ALA:

"The script has been tested in IE6, Firefox 1.0.4, Netscape
7.1, Safari 1.2 and 2.0, and Opera 8 (though the Opera tests indicate a
tendency to crash)."

Choosing the color scheme for your web site is an important first step in the design process. There are several things to consider
before you pick out the colors.

Does the person or company you are working for have a specific color scheme or a logo that they will be using? Is the logo color part of the overall site design? For instance can you imagine the golden arches in purple and green?

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In this article, I will take you through a brief history, current libraries, and PHP 5.

Then:

PHP has always been an ever-expanding web programming language, ever since it’s initial release on June 8th, 1995. PHP initially began as a bunch of CGI binaries written in C deemed “Personal Home Page Tools” (PHP tools). Two years later, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, the founders of Zend Technologies, took Rasmus Lerdorf‘s PHP-FI (PHP’s version 2) and rewrote the parser, giving birth to PHP 3 (now called Pre-Hypertext-Processor). In 1998, the parser was redesigned once again and named the Zend Engine, and the popular PHP 4 was released in the May of 2004.

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