Archive: March 2009

Making Use of the HTML Tag

Wednesday 18th March 2009, 10:17 PM
When converting a design to a fully functioning html website, one of the aspects of design that can often be troublesome is the page background. Since you neither know the height that any given page will be, nor the width of your users viewport, you always need to ensure that your beautifully complex background image either fades into a solid colour, or is tileable.
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The Alt Text Attribute and Accessibility

Tuesday 10th March 2009, 10:04 PM
Alternative text is a very important part of a webpage, but this is often overlooked by web developers, who neglect it because it can be difficult to implement. Additionally, badly written or misused alt text can be equally damaging. And this comes at a cost the the accessibility of the website.
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