Category Archives: Design Technique

Fixed Footers Provide Visual Impact

Screenshot of StrawPoll

Most websites are pretty generic. There’s a header, text in two or three columns, and at the bottom of that text there’s a footer. That footer is something you’ll only see if you scroll down the page to the bottom […]

Absolute Positioning – A Brief Introduction

Like many website designers I’ve learned a lot about how to use the float property in CSS. Also like many website designers I’ve had to suffer the frustrations of glitches across different browsers (particularly Internet Explorer) and unexpected results in […]

Creating a Print Stylesheet

Screenshot of unstyled print preview

On Friday I wrote about the importance of styling your website so that it prints well. As promised then, I’m going to go into a bit more detail on how to develop an effective print stylesheet for your site.

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301 Redirect with ASP.NET

If you move a page on a website to a different address it can have an impact both on your search engine ranking and on your site’s overall usability and accessibility. I talked a while ago about the importance of […]

A Small Change For A Big Accessibility Difference

Sometimes the smallest things can make a big difference, and that’s also the case when it comes to accessibility.

If you are targetting, or want to cater for, an audience that is browsing in a non-standard way, such as utilising […]