One of the most obvious things to me was the meanning of the word "design". Why would I need to define a word that everyone just knows what it means? But then, I started listing the different ways that the word is used, just within the Web design community, and I realized that this is something that we all know, but no one means exactly the same thing. So I wrote an article about the different meanings of design in our industry: What is Design?

Principles of Design

• What is Design?
• What does design mean to you?
• Emphasis
• Rhythm
• Contrast

Design Means Different Things to Different People originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 06:41:22.

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BrowserShots is one of those programs that seems too good to be true. How can something so useful be free (ad supported)? BrowserShots is an open source online tool that takes screen shots in different Web browsers and uploads them to a central server for you to view. You can view pages in browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, MSIE, and many others. And not just current browsers either. They have test machines with MSIE 4 and 5, Firefox 0.9, and even old ones like Netscape 8.1. When you're testing your pages, BrowserShots is a great resource.

• Browser Testing: BrowserShots
• How to Use BrowserCam to Review Your Web Site
• How to Preview Your Web Pages
• Always Check Your Pages in Different Browsers
• Browser Specific Web Designs
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: BrowserShots originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 16:48:43.

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As I mentioned last week, a new writer joined the About.com Web Design / HTML team - Darla Ferrara. She is focusing on XML articles and has already delivered three great resources.

• Rules of XML - XML Tutorial
• Adding Child Elements - XML Tutorial
• Oxygen XML Editor Review

Do you want to learn XML? - We've got some new tutorials for you originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 07:52:34.

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Find out why creating and maintaining an up-to-date sitemap for your website is an important step for search engine optimization (SEO).

There are dozens of different Web servers but the most popular ones tend to be Apache (with Tomcat for SSL), IIS, and the Sun Java Server. At one time or another, I've used all three of those servers, as well as WebObjects, iPlanet (Netscape server), and Sambar server. I've also looked at Zeus and Zope but never run Web pages off them. What Web servers have you used or played with?

Poll: What Web servers have you used? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 05:40:18.

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Wordless Wednesday - Design Favorites - Cartapop.com originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 at 05:48:25.

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Hello, it's Steve Lucas - Welcome! You know, the internet is a powerful tool. But, there are a couple of other things you'll need, to go along with it - in your quest for online success. First and foremost - you've GOT to have a great marketing system. If you don't have a great system to promote your website - it's kind of like having.....a nice car..without an engine! It's nic...

Java SE has integrated internationalization support that provides language- or culture-dependent functionality. Explore some classes that work with locales and learn how to create your own.