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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Submitter’s comments: It sucks. Vincent Flanders’ comments: Ah, this site brings back those wonderful childhood memories of my mother yelling, “If you don’t shape up I’m going to send you to Culver Military Academy!” Culver, by the way, is a much better looking website than FU. The FU site reminds me a lot of this [...]

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FU Military Academy – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 10, 2012

This is a Flash website and as such is very interactive and pretty. But of course if you're on an iPad you get an obnoxious message telling you to get an Android tablet, because Flash doesn't work on the iPad (or iPhone or iPod). There are so many reasons why displaying that kind of message is a bad idea. But suggesting that someone who has already spent several hundred dollars on a tablet should go out and buy another tablet just to view your website is an extreme display of hubris. Keep in mind that the iPad has the dominant market share in the tablet market, so that message states that you don't want 50+% of tablet viewers to view your site.

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Web Design Inspiration - Luxor Mag originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 08:00:56.

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If you don’t, you should be. They let you add more cutting-edge features to your web pages and be sure that they will work even in browsers that don’t yet support the standards version of the property. Vendor prefixes are not a hack, they are a tool for browser makers and web designers to make sure that new features can be added without breaking a page in older or other browsers. Yes, you have to type a little more to use them. But stop being lazy and just do it. It’ll only hurt for a second.

Read the full article: CSS Vendor Prefixes

CSS Properties

• CSS3 Style Properties
• CSS Vendor Prefixes
• CSS Style Properties

Do You Use CSS Vendor Prefixes? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 08:00:41.

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