 elcome to HB Graphics Tips and Techniques. Listed below are articles of interest (we hope) that will assist you in the web design process.
For those of you who are wondering what happened to the old tutorials section, do not despair, it is here. We will gradually migrate and update some of our older tutorials to this new section. Meanwhile we will continue to add new material in the form of articles such as those below.
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Al DiMarzio and his colleagues have developed a design and development methodology that they follow with clients. This article discusses that process and offers tips for effective communication with your own clients.
The last thing anyone wants to do is to learn how to structure code. We would all rather be writing it and having fun. But the fun ends quite abruptly when you go back a few weeks later and you wonder who wrote this code. This article discuses some basic constructs to guide structuring.
Many Web sites lead visitors on a 'Virtual Tour' which turns out to be a long page with too many pictures that take too long to load. This article discusses a more efficient, JavaScript driven presentation of a virtual tour, that works with limited-bandwidth connections.
HTML tables act as containers for text and images. They organize and separate portions of a page, and they add color and design. In short, they control page topography and in essence become the page. This article focuses on some techniques a developer might use to create tables that perform the same across major browser brands.
Filling out forms can be an onerous task for any present or potential customer. But an intelligent form can make the process virtually painless. This article discusses the creation of a JavaScripted user-friendly form that guides the end user.
Fill-in-the-form web pages have the potential to generate frustration for both the customer and the business owner. In this article we discuss the use of form validation techniques beyond the scope of simply testing whether the form field is empty or not and discusses email and credit card validators. A similar process can be used for Phone, Social Security and other data.
Keeping a Web site's products and/or services in front of the customer during the decision making process is essential to making the sale or closing the deal. I am definitely not advocating we splash our Web pages with banners and images, but we can provide timely decision-making aids at critical locations on our pages. This article will discuss "child" Web pages, commonly known as pop-up windows, and how they can benefit both customer and client.
Animated GIFs add eye candy to a Web site, but sometimes you might want to change the animation speed to produce different effects. This article describes an approach which employs multiple single-cell images and JavaScript.
Most Cold Fusion error trapping/fixing is done in the development phase ... right? We catch the bugs up front ... r i g h t. In this article we discuss a simple approach to using CF error handling to both allow a graceful recovery by the user/customer and notify the developer that an error occurred.
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