This article is the  bits of fonts on this list are considered “web-safe” – they’re supported by all major browsers on any platform. will affect the way your readers perceive your page (serious and formal, or friendly and casual). Aside from this, there are also important usability concerns. For example, some font types are more easily readable than others, and some are more widely available. Along with each font is a preview image of what [...]

Over the past couple of years jQuery has been growing in popularity, which means more and more plugins are being created to make web designers’ lives easier. Here are our favorites from 2009. Content Sliders This year a growing popularity in using content sliders as a way to display several pieces of content within a limited area or to engage the user with the sliding animation. Normally this is done in a featured banner area near [...]

The days of using tables for layout are hopefully gone. This doesn’t mean that tables don’t have a place in web design and development. When you have tabular data, tables are the way to go and are what you should be using. However, ordinary tables can be limiting to the user when you have complex data to display. Here are 8 very useful jQuery plugins that will add valuable functionality to your tables such as column [...]

Description The following generator creates the code necessary to put background music or sounds into your website so visitors will play music or hear sounds when they load your website. There are options for chosing loop times and display type. Steps Find & Save the music you want to play. Save it to your computer (desktop or somewhere you can find it) Upload the music file from your computer to your website (usually a host [...]

Browser Compatibility Tools – Mega List of Browser Checkers to Check Your Web Sites for Browser Support Are you losing visitors because your web pages don’t work on all the popular web browsers? Your web pages may have a different look on each browser and the visitors blame the web site, not the browser. Browser display problems can ruin your web pages, and these display differences are caused by a lot of things such as [...]

Style Master is the leading cross platform CSS development tool. Much more than just a text editor, Style Master supports your workflow – including * creating style sheets based on your HTML * live CSS editing of PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby and other dynamically generated sites * editing CSS via ftp What can Style Master do for you? Built with our extensive knowledge of CSS and web development going back well over a decade, support for [...]