How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 4: Fancy CSS
We’re finally ready to end this tutorial with our last and best part – The CSS. If you remember from last week, we have our design sliced up and the HTML finished and validated. Hopefully, you still have your styles written down from Part 1. If not, go back and get the notes. In today’s...
Read more…How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 3: HTML Layouts
Now that we’ve got our website set up, the beginning HTML tags and the head section finished, it’s time to move on to the actual HTML layout and coding. In this post we’ll talk about the HTML, floats and validation as well as some common tags. Ready? Let’s get started!
Read more…How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 2: Beginning the HTML
So now that we have our web design sectioned off and the dimensions and styles written down from yesterday, we’ll now move on to HTML coding. I decided to split the HTML in 2 sections, since there’s so much to explain. I’ll explain the code line by line, including the head information, and show you...
Read more…How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 1: Preparing the Design
I thought it would be helpful to some of our beginning XHTML/CSS coders (and some seasoned ones who need to brush up) to show how I code a website from beginning to end. We’ll do this in a 3 part series; Part 1: Preparing the Design, Part 2: The HTML and Part 3: The CSS....
Read more…Less HTML is Better HTML: Simplicity in Coding
Today’s post has been co-written by a Twitter friend of mine, Colin (@chief27). Bio below post. Amber: I’ve found that many beginning web developers tend to overuse divs, id’s and classes. While this can be a great crutch at first, it’s necessary once you’ve gotten the HTML and CSS basics down to really begin honing your abilities....
Read more…How To Easily Tame the IE6 Monster in 5 Minutes
Oddly enough I got a lot of random questions asking me how I deal with IE6 yesterday, so I thought it would be a perfect way to expand on how I get IE6 to behave properly (most of the time) in 5 minutes or less. Let’s start with some of the most common problems developers...
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