Wednesday, April 13, 2011

How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS

How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS
by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com

This article discusses how to centre (or "center" in US English) a DIV block, whether it contains text, graphics, or a mixture of both, using standards-compliant Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The technique is useful not just for creating pleasing designs, but also for times when you want to create a fixed width single column layout with the main content placed in the centre of the page, and not flushed to one side. More: http://www.thesitewizard.com/css/center-div-block.shtml

Monday, April 11, 2011

CSS Zen Garden

There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file. Yes, really.
CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document. The only way this can be illustrated in a way that gets people excited is by demonstrating what it can truly be, once the reins are placed in the hands of those able to create beauty from structure... More

World Wide Web Consortium

About W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community whereMember organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to developWeb standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential...More

Designing With Grid-Based Approach

Designing with grid-based approach

By Vitaly Friedman

...And this is what this article is all about. Inspired by Khoi Vinn’s and Mark Boulton’s presentation Grids are Good, we’ve decided to take a deep look in the articles about grid-based designs. We’ve read through over 50 articles and selected some of themost important and interesting facts web-developers should know about the grid-based approach. Besides, we’ve listed the most useful references, tutorials and tools we found – with precise descriptions of what the articles are about...More

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Welcome to IMED 1316 Intermediate Web Design

I will work on this site in late May, between semesters, and begin using it in either June or August. Sign up for RSS/Atom feed to be notified of updates.