One of the frustrations of typography on the web is the lack of decent hyphenation control. CSS3 introduces the hyphens property to help you control the hyphens on your web pages. Learn how hyphenation works on the web and how you can control it more effectively.

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Get Better Typography on Your Pages

• Test Hyphenation in Your Browser
• What is Typography?
• Web Typography Pet Peeves - Annoyances in Web Typography
• Typography on the Web is About the Little Details

CSS3 Helps You Control Hyphenation originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 08:00:44.

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Submitter’s comments: You have to sign up to see their store? WTF? Vincent Flanders’ comments: This “feature” is becoming more and more common with Flash Sale Sites. No, not those silly concoctions using Adobe Flash, but Deal-of-the-Day or Deal-of-the-Next-Three Day Sites. Generally, with these types of sites, you can find out more details by going [...]

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Zulily – An Example of Mediocre Web Design for May 22, 2012

Testing your web pages in multiple browsers is critical to ensure that your pages work for as many people as possible. Alexander Peev provides us with information on how to test, what to do when problems crop up during testing, and even how to deal with changes to the site after testing is complete. This is part two of the article Cross Browser Testing.

Read the full article: How to Test Web Page Designs

• What Browsers Do You Use?
• Cross Browser Testing
• Testing Your Web Pages
• Graceful Degradation - Make Your Pages Work Even in Older Browsers

Learn to Test Your Pages Effectively originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 08:00:22.

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Submitter’s comments: Suggestion for worst website design. Vincent Flanders’ comments: It took a long time before I could figure out where this festival was being held. Turns out it’s located in my very own Washington state. There’s a lot wrong with the site. A lot. It’s a classic example of Mistake #6 from Biggest Mistakes [...]

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Selah Days – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 21, 2012

Are you looking for technical writing experience on HTML, web design, or XML? I am looking for one to three interns for the second half of 2012. Interns for this site will write one article (650-800 words) per month, July through December, on topics related to HTML, web design, web editors, and XML.

This internship is unpaid, but you can work from anywhere in the world and all your articles will appear with your byline along with an author profile describing you and your expertise.

This internship is open to any current graduate or undergraduate students studying web design, computer science or a related discipline. Recent graduates are also invited to apply. You must know HTML and be able to write clear, accurate articles about HTML and web design.

To apply: please send a cover letter, current resume, writing sample, and the URL for at least one web page you have built to webdesign.guide@about.com. Please indicate what web editor you use for building web pages and what topics you would be most interested in writing about. Deadline for applications: June 15, 2012.

Web Design / HTML Interns Wanted originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 23:23:34.

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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.

If you still are having trouble, you should consider signing up for my Free HTML class.

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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