Search Signals Search engines use different signals to determine which sites to display, and in what order to display them, in response to a user’s query. Most general search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) use similar signals. However, how much weight a signal is given, and what they index (content they know about) can vary….
It is fairly common knowledge that people hate to wait for websites to download and view. It is even easy to find studies which state that you only have between 4 and 7 seconds to get someone interested in your site, which means you’ve got to be fast. What isn’t known so much is how…
Typography is the craft, art, and science of typesetting, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. Details involved in the arrangement of type include the selection of fonts, point size, line length, leading (inter-linear spacing), letter spacing, and kerning. – Wikipedia While, in…
Dreamweaver’s form validation is a simple one. While it works for about 80-85% of all cases, It doesn’t have a lot of flexibility to make changes unfortunately. Here is a list of some of the things you cannot do with Dreamweaver’s built in form validation tool. Check to see if a check box is selected….
We have looked at some basic formatting with CSS earlier, such as changing the font and using divs, and floating the elements to wrap elements, but now we will look at stylizing the form fields. One thing which I recently saw, and had an ephaniy about, is instead of using divs to contain the form…
Validation, when dealing with form data, is the process of making sure you get the right information from your user, to send to your form processor. Forms need to be validated so the information to be processed on the server, can be correctly processed. If the form processor (the file that the action attribute in…
Form Creation First you should add form tag. The form tag has several attributes which will allow you to modify how the form works. id/name – used if you are using JavaScript to modify the tags action – the location (URL) of the form processor. If you leave action blank, it will send the file…
While forms are designed to be functional, it would be nice if the forms looked a little nicer. Luckily, with some well formatted code, and CSS styles, we can layout and design a form that works best for us. It is helpful to know how to build a form first, and to remember to validate…
