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From HTML to XHTML
by Webmaster Email: webmaster@binarytrends.com - 2006-03-02 00:37:34

HTML has been the most successful publishing language for web pages since the beginning of the World Wide Web (WWW). HTML 4.01 is the last W3C recommended version after 2.0 and 3.2. It supports the tags in the earlier versions and has got additional support for more multimedia, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities and accessibility. Apart from all the goods with HTML, it has been treated as a 'let go' language by both developers and browsers. The 'loose' nature of HTML markup has resulted in ill-formed documents, still displayed properly in some browsers. ... read the full article

CSS Selectors. Did You Know All of Them
by Webmaster Email: webmaster@binarytrends.com - 2005-10-05 22:59:32

When it comes to writing style sheets, many web designers only use and mostly only know about the class and id selectors or may be element selectors. But trust me there are many others. CSS2 has introduced even more selector types and although older browsers do not support some selector types, they are still worth taking a look. In this article I will explain all different types of CSS selectors along with their support on different browsers and versions. Before I can start escalating through selector types, let me make it clear that a CSS consist of one or more rules and a typical rule consists of two parts. A selector and a property (or set of properties). ... read the full article

A Few CSS Tricks You May Be Looking For
by Webmaster Email: webmaster@binarytrends.com - 2005-09-18 00:07:05

CSS (cascading style sheets) has proven to be a great replacement for tables in website designing. Style sheets makes a website more accessible, fast loading, easily controllable, cleanly coded and sensible. But apart from some of the browser support issues, CSS can sometimes become tricky to achieve some effects with. New users of CSS will know the challenges faced by them when they start shifting towards CSS from tables. Below are a few tricks, which you might not have known before.

The Shorthand Methods

Font, Border, padding, margin and Background properties are probably those, which are used very often by every designer in styling their pages through CSS. ... read the full article