In: Learning CSS

CSS Concepts & Design Principles in the Zen Garden

by Scott Frangos

Learning about CSS at WebHelperMagazine.com

In this Lesson we’ll look at the CSS structure of an excellent site design in the CSS Zen Garden. You can follow along using the Web Developer Firefox extension which will help us reveal the hidden structure of the design.

In: Twitter, Web Help

Four creative ways to add power to your marketing

There’s a hard truth about marketing: People don’t care about businesses (and that includes your business).
What they care about is how your business’s products or services can solve THEIR problems, meet THEIR needs and make THEIR lives easier.

“By questioning, challenging and reversing, you start to look at benefits in a whole different way.”
In other words, [...]

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters

Headless Man Seen Running Through Southeast Asia

This is maybe the most important article in our series on Copy Writing Techniques. You could be a very good writer, and lose out on readership if you don’t know how to hook people in to read your blog posts, web page copy, ebooks, articles — anything you write. What’s that have to [...]

In: Web Help

101 CSS Tips, Tutorials & Examples

How are your CSS skills coming? This great list should help you a lot, whether you’re just starting, or well on your way to Mastery… before the next CSS version makes it’s way to the next generation of browsers. It’s remarkable how much knowledge is online, and how when you pull the right [...]

In: Learning CSS, Web Help

Using the “Box Model” to Create a Layout with Columns

Learning about CSS at WebHelperMagazine.com

In this Lesson we will review the CSS Box Model and see how it is used to create an attractive column style layout with no tables involved. You can download and use the template discussed here, in your own work.

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Understanding the CSS Box Model

In: Web Graphics Help, Web Help

Web Page Design Concepts

by Scott Frangos, Managing Editor for WebHelperMagazine.com

This article presents a discussion of Website Design Concepts, and practical exercises with the goal of developing a site framework representing a well designed website.
Concept 1: General Design Principles/BenchMarking…
Good design is a combination of science and art. This is particularly true when you use web programming to [...]