Template Design A WordPress template is a PHP file, or set of files, used to display WordPress content. Regardless of the Content Management System (CMS) used, the template system will work in a similar manner. However, each CMS system will have slight differences to the way they define their template system. A CMS Template does…
jQuery is a framework designed for front end development (user facing) and is built on top of JavaScript. It does not replace JavaScript. jQuery sits on top of JavaScript, and makes it easier to work with, especially where the browsers do things differently. You must include the jQuery framework in any HTML file you want…
Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is about ranking ads to display when someone searches. The Ads are usually shown to the top and/or right side of the organic search results. Because the ad results are near the organic results, Search Engine Marketing shares many similar properties to search engine optimization. However, there are additional factors…
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…
