I've been working with beginning web developers for many years now, and the most common question I get is how to get images to display correctly. Images are challenging for the beginning web developer because they have to understand how web servers work (a little) and how directory systems differ on their home machine and their web server.

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Making Your Images Show Up originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 08:00:51.

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Centered alignment is a popular design element as it's relatively easy. In fact, now centering with CSS is arguably harder than it used to be with the CENTER element (that element is deprecated and you shouldn't use it). However, there are drawbacks to centered design. In fact, Jacci, the Desktop Publishing Guide, recommends that you should avoid centered text for most body copy.

Poll: Do you use centering as a design element? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 08:00:11.

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Be sure to mouse near the top of the “beer” to see what happens. But if you're using Internet Explorer, you'll need to check it out in a different browser. All versions of IE are sent to their Feedburner page instead. There are some interesting choices for the sectioning tags in this document. For example, the dates in the posts are listed as ASIDE and they might better be defined as DATA elements with machine readable dates in an attribute. The images are also enclosed in a SECTION element which appears to be there primarily for the CSS styles—he should use a DIV instead. But it is a fun site design.

Have you built an HTML5 site? Or do you know of one that does a great job with HTML5? Submit HTML5 site designs to be featured on this site.

HTML5 Design Gallery - BeerBlogging originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 08:00:43.

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Buttons are a fun feature of web pages, but up until just recently, if you wanted your buttons to have any interesting features at all, you needed to use images. In fact, if you search the web for ”web buttons” you will find hundreds if not thousands of examples of buttons you can use for your web pages. But now, with CSS3 you can create buttons that have cool effects but don't use any images at all.

Read the full article to learn how: CSS3 Buttons (Note: there are four pages to the article, and page two shows you how to create the above buttons.)

Other Fun Things to Do With CSS

• Glow Effects with CSS3
• CSS Transparency in Nearly All Browsers
• How Do you Stretch a Background Image in a Web Page

Don't Click the Shiny, Red, Candy-like Button?CSS3 Buttons originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 at 13:18:18.

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There are two methods you can use to transfer data in HTML forms. But it's one thing to know the two methods, it's another to know which is appropriate to use. This article will help explain when to use GET or POST in your HTML forms.

Read the full article: GET versus POST Requests on HTML Forms

Other HTML Forms Articles

• Encoding URLs
• Disabled Form Fields
• Collect Speech Input with HTML5 on Google Chrome

Do you know when to use GET vs. POST in an HTML form? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 08:00:31.

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Submitter’s comments: Three days ago our local New Orleans newspaper, The Times-Picayune, decided to launch a “new and improved” website. There was nothing wrong with the previous design. While it was not flashy, it was very readable, easy to navigate and worked with all browsers, operating systems and platforms. It’s replacement is nothing short of [...]

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The Times-Picayune – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 13, 2012

Most web designers, when they work on websites think very little about how accessibile the site is. But this is an important part of web design. Accessible pages don't have to be ugly or boring. In fact, great design takes that into account and accounts for as many custoemrs as possible. I think making accessible sites makes sense, as why drive away customers if you don't have to? And it's easier than you think. By validating your pages, you can find out what problems your site might have.

Learn how to Validate for Accessibility

More Help with Accessibility

• Creating Accessible HTML
• How to Use an Accessibility Validator
• Are Your Pages Color Sensitive?

Did you know you can validate for accessibility? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 08:00:56.

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