Web Design
I hope that you find
these tips useful and that they enhance your Internet experience. My most recent web
design can be viewed at the following site:
- CollectionLink, Inc. - Providing debt collection
services in the business to business environment, with specialization in the
telecommunications industry.
Page Banners
- When I wanted to have a banner on the top
of a web page that would cover the top of the page regardless of the screen resolution of
the visitor's PC I discovered the following by trial and error. Since screen
resolutions usually range from "640 by 480 pixels" to "1024 by 768
pixels" placing a 1024 wide banner would work great for some, but would cause a
horizontal scroll bar to appear for all lower resolution. (Note: Horizontal scroll
bars are a bad thing, since people usually hate to scroll from left to right). The
solution is to create a .gif file that is 1024 pixels wide, then add a one cell table with
100% width to the top of the page. You can then incorporate your graphic as a
background to the cell (not the table). Your graphic should now be equally visible
to all resolutions. Bear in mind that you should not place any information on the
right side of your graphic, because that region would not be visible to a person browsing
at a lower resolution. One more thing: Netscape browsers will not display the
graphic unless you add a spacer .gif, or some regular spaces to the cell.
Streaming Media
- Combining MP3's - When producing real
media, I've often come across snippets of background music, in MP3 form, that I wanted to
use, but the length never seemed to be quite right. I came across a quick little
free utility that allows you to edit and combine MP3 files. It's called MPEG Audio
Scissors and you can download it at rocketdownload.com.
Web Development Links
- W3Schools
- A collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials
with lots of working examples and source code.