Printing Your Website the Right Way

Written by Maricon Almonte


There are so many techniques and methods available to create a user friendly website. The first one is by using a server side routine or print stylesheets. The print version may strip out images and navigation that lose their meaning onrepparttar printed page and may showrepparttar 132256 page in a single column using a dissimilar font with a different size.

When there is no printable version orrepparttar 132257 printable version includes ads or other settings, you can use stylesheets. With CSS awareness plus some web development tools, you can easily create your own formatted print versions. The tool you may need involves Mozilla Firefox. If you don’t have it yet, you can install Chris Pederick’s Web Developer’s Toolbar.

Various techniques are utilized in order to exposerepparttar 132258 grid ofrepparttar 132259 website, segregaterepparttar 132260 element containingrepparttar 132261 content you want, use CSS to formatrepparttar 132262 page with suitable font sizes, widths, and margins, use CSS to selectively show and hiderepparttar 132263 other parts ofrepparttar 132264 page as you see fit and saverepparttar 132265 CSS to create an immediate custom printable view.

To easily take an X-ray ofrepparttar 132266 site, userepparttar 132267 web developer’s toolbar. After that, userepparttar 132268 Outline Block Level Elements or Outline Table Cells to outlinerepparttar 132269 site’s grid then use View ID and Class Details fromrepparttar 132270 Miscellaneous menu.

To isolaterepparttar 132271 target, setrepparttar 132272 container and its descendants to be visible, and then move torepparttar 132273 top ofrepparttar 132274 editing area and hide everything. But before you do this, you can first change its background color, formatrepparttar 132275 texts, change fonts or its border properties so that you can easily identify it. Userepparttar 132276 Boxes and Arrows to do this.

Optimizing a website with Flash

Written by Granny’s Mettle


In order to fully optimizerepparttar website's capacity to attract audiences, Flash has been used to provide highly, interactive and efficient websites by developers and designers. The following are techniques and advice by an expert web developer to produce an efficient and optimized website using Flash:

•Stage 1

The first thing to do is to know your audience. By knowing who your target audience is, you may be able to plan your website thoroughly. Planning for your website includes deciding onrepparttar 132254 sections, pages and contents; deciding onrepparttar 132255 dynamics of your content andrepparttar 132256 frequency of update; and providing an initial sketch of your website on paper. This is a good way to plan your website because you will be able to play with it and figure out a setting that will fit your requirements.

Afterwards, createrepparttar 132257 website template and review it.

•Stage 2

Maprepparttar 132258 website template in Flash. "Vectorize" as much as possible. This means that your website should have a bandwidth that is simple and highly efficient. One web designer said that in vectorization "the simpler parts ofrepparttar 132259 website are created using simple Flash graphics tools instead of usingrepparttar 132260 sliced images." This process will bring a difference in movie size of done properly. For example, an image of 30Kb can be reduced to 2 or 3Kb.

Create a common set of reusable graphics in separate movie clips. Reusable graphics may be bullets, lines, and other graphics related torepparttar 132261 first two. You could userepparttar 132262 same movie clips whenever you need them in your movie. With this, you'll be able to reducerepparttar 132263 size ofrepparttar 132264 movie due to Flash' feature of being able to render that particular movie clip as a single entity ofrepparttar 132265 movie library.

•Stage 3

Website Architecture- Designrepparttar 132266 website to load contents/pages in a dynamic manner. The download speed is very crucial. It doesn't matter if you haverepparttar 132267 most hi-fi website withrepparttar 132268 most attractive interface and content. Ifrepparttar 132269 time of download is so long thatrepparttar 132270 browser is stuck on "loading…", it definitely will not get clickers to your site.

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