Selectors, Properties, and Values: Basic CSS Concepts

The basic structure of an CSS declaration

Every CSS document is composed of many CSS declaration that follow the same syntax. It is of the form:
Selector {property: value}
Selectors
Selectors can be page elements, div elements, or class elements. Page elements can be recognized by the absence of any symbol before the element’s name. Divs are written as [...]

Counters and Hits: Track them Down

As far as checking on whether you are doing a good job with your site, statistics offered together with your hosting package or from some free service sites online that analyze your performance would be a great way to determine if your site is indeed getting noticed.
There are ways to get your site noticed [...]

Adding CSS to HTML Documents

Two ways to apply CSS to a web page.
Internal CSS
You can add CSS to your HTML documents by simply placing it within the document header. For example, you can specify background color for your HTML document like this:

< html>
< head>

< style type="text/css">
body { background-color: red;}
< /style>
< /head>
< body>

< /body>
< /html>

External CSS
A better way to use [...]

What is CSS?

Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) is a web design and development technique which has quickly become the de-facto standard for creating web pages. The main purpose of using HTML and CSS is to separate presentation from content: HTML is used for the text and images, while CSS is used to determine their position and look on the [...]

HTML Coding Rules : Rule 7

Deprecated Tags and Attributes
Here’s the List of Deprecated Tags and Attributes, for info and to check because you may want to avoid them.

applet
basefont
center
dir
font (use CSS)
isindex
menu
s and strike
u

You should also know the deprecated attributes too.

align
alink
background
bgcolor
clear
code
compact
color
border
hspace and vspace
link
noshade
nowrap
size
start
text
value
vlink
width

Now for the full list of deprecated tags and attributes according to HTML 4.01 specs for W3schools.org
Deprecated
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Simple Designs can become Huge Differences

Prior to the belief that sophisticated programming draws in various attention, a large part of the population online today are fine with simple but artistic designs. It is no longer a world where authentic scripts and original web programming make a difference. With plain image formats and great ideas on how to represent content, you [...]

HTML Coding Rules : Rule 6

Map tag

< img src="hotdog.gif" alt="hotdog" usemap="#planetmap" />
< map name="planetmap">
< area shape="rect" coords="0,0,118,28"
href="a.html" alt="A" />
< /map>

If you never used map tags, then consider yourself lucky. Newer technique such as image slicing or Macromedia Flash has allowed us the flexibility of performing everything this tag has to offer. It was useful in the primitive years, but I [...]

HTML Coding Rules : Rule 5

Frames

< frameset cols="20%, 80%">
< frame src="a.html" />
< frame src="b.html" />
< /frameset>
Yep, that’s right. I said it. If you’re implementing frames for a client, you should be shot. Frame and frameset are ugggg-ly. Maybe it’s due to their old age. If you’re using frames to avoid multiple instances of the same content, I would suggest newer [...]

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