Web and Graphic Design HQ

On one of the web forums I regularly visit, the text setting (for my monitor resolution and platform) is a little too squashed together in the “line height” — even though when you did deep into the CSS, you find:
    line-height: normal;

in the relevant snippet of CSS values.
Hmmm, there must be a way […]

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Need to do something with your display just once? Don’t want to add it to your CSS file?
Use in-line CSS instead.
Here’s a code example:
<p style=”font-size: 150%; color:#cc0000;”>Paragraph text goes here</p>
This makes the text 150% of regular size and red, in this example code as shown above.
Lots of CSS rules can be used “inline” instead of […]

When it comes to web layout, there’s still a fair bit of argument over minimum layout standards: designing your website to meet the needs of the least technically enabled visitor you’re likely to get.
I was listening to an expert today who has recently started designing for a minimum 1024 pixel screen width. To make that […]

Here’s a mini web tip for those of us around the world who don’t always spell things the USA way!
If you’re hand-coding your web pages, and you’re used to British-English, the big two to watch out for are “color vs colour” and “center vs centre”

Sometimes you “gloss over” those words in your code when you’re […]

One of the common mistakes made with images online, especially by new users, is to have an image used in the website in smaller dimensions than its actual size.
Say, for example, you have an image that is 2592 x 1944 pixels (that’s around the size of a high quality image from a 5-megapixel camera).
The common […]

Here’s our first tip for you — a simple one, but often ignored!
So, without any stalling, here are the two words NOT to include: