Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Archive for the ‘Web design glossary’ Category
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Accessibility on the web is similar to accessibility in the real world. An accessible building in the real world will have a number of features that allow disabled people to access the building as easily as able bodied people — for example wheel chair ramps.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
In web design, usability describes the ease at which website users are able to fulfil the purpose(s) of the website. Usability is a fundamental aspect of web design that must be taken into consideration from word go.
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
XHTML is a hybrid of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language). But all you need to know is XHTML is a slightly cleaner more powerful version of regular HTML, so when you hear references to XHTML or HTML it’s basically referring to the same thing: the code used to write web pages.
Monday, April 28th, 2008
CSS is the standard and recommended language used to define the appearance of web pages that are written in (X)HTML.
The best web designers will make great use of CSS by writing their (X)HTML code in a way that it’s appearance is almost entirely controlled by the CSS.