I’ve always been fascinated by these large backgrounds you sometimes find on movie websites. They can be a real eye catcher. But the problem most people tend to ignore are to make the contour of their image the same colour as their background. A bad example would be like this:
Another problem that frequently occurs is [...]
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“Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware.”
Sprites were used back in the Nintendo age. Developpers used them to prevent loading several images each time a character moved or entered the screen. All movements/characters were set on one big image and by using [...]
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“As the popularity of CSS grows, so does interest in making additions to the specification.”
CSS3 is still under development, if you want to follow the progress report, click here. Yes, as you can see it’s still not finished after all those years. The first public introduction was in 2006 is I’m not mistaken.
Well more browsers [...]
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“Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors.“
Colors can be represented in two ways. Each of these two has also different representations. So let’s first start with the most used of all:
Hex Triplet: #XXXXXX
The ‘code’ consist of 6 digits or 3byte hexadecimal number. Each byte [...]
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no, they shouldn’t. Offcourse there are exceptions, more of this afterwards.
people tend to forget the new tab/window was opened and hit the back-button mercilessly without any result. They also don’t like to deal with dozens of tabs/windows. People should be in control! This is also one of the main fundamentels of user-interface.
Developpers should be advised [...]
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The next problem is a well know headcracker. The good old netscape so called height bug is back, surprisingly this time in FireFox. Try to size a <div> to 100% height–it won’t do.
In most cases the 100% height is to set the height of body and html to be the height of the viewport. There [...]
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Web Design always fascinated me, although it was complex. Most people would not agree with me and some will, but my point being is that there are limitless possibilities in this sector. Two years ago, you could have compared me with following chart
I broke several mouses during these 2 years. Most of the time I [...]
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