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July 2003

Promotion Tip :  Promote Your Site With Styles

Easy maintenance and fewer coding errors are the main reasons Webmasters use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on their pages. But there's another aspect to CSS design that's rarely addressed. Careful use of style sheets can help you increase your site's appeal to search engines! Click here to read on.

CSS Tip :  Add CSS Formatting To Your Page

In our June 2003 Beginner Tip, we discussed the benefits of removing deprecated HTML tags from your Web pages. Now we're going to take an existing Web page and show you how to do just that. In 5 easy steps we'll, analyze the page, create CSS definitions, delete the HTML formatting tags, add CSS-specific formatting to enhance the page, and validate the code. Click here to continue.

Usability Tip :  Custom Cursors Guide Visitors

Web site visitors claim to love sites that boast cool interactive effects. At the same time, they hate sites that download slowly. What's a webmaster to do?

Try using some of the cool Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) effects that add interactive and usability to your site - without bloating the file size. One of the easiest - but most frequently overlooked - is the ability to define a custom cursor. A single line of code gives visitors important clues about page elements, link contents, and link destinations. Click here to read on.