Author: Emanuel Blagonic
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CSS image replacement techniques
When you are engaged in web design process, one of the most helpful things is CSS image replacement technique. In this article, I will show you the basics you should know for replacing text with images. I will show you how to use a logo for Heading 1 (which is widely used for displaying company…
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Create your own drop down menu with nested submenus using CSS and a little JavaScript
Drop down menus are among the coolest things on the web. Beside that they are also very good for creating navigations that contain many elements. The main problems of creating drop down menus lies in the Internet Explorer’s inappropriate way of displaying :hover pseudo class (not recognized anywhere except in A tag), and the problem…
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Launching of the biggest car/truck-carrier in the world
You are wondering about the title of this article. What is the biggest car-carrier in the world? Why is mentioned on this blog? And so on. Well, I was born in Pula, which is well known because of the beautiful amphitheatre (Arena) from 80 A.D., but also well known for its shipyard Uljanik since 1856.…
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Is this a rip-off?
Few days ago I discovered incoming link to my blog from a Russian blog called Seo-Study. That is not interesting by itself, but when I visited this site earlier today I had something to see. Although this design was featured on various sites, it has passed no more than two weeks since this blog was…
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Image with textual description
How to create image with textual description, and keep it simple? Maybe some nice text decoration? If you are wondering about that, this is the article for you, and it’s not even very long and difficult.
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Testing your site with IE 5.01 and IE 5.5
Although not many people today are surfing using older versions of Internet Explorer (like IE 5.01 and IE 5.5), it is not a bad idea to test your web site with these versions too. There are many ways to test your website with older versions of IE like having multiple partitions with different Windows installations,…
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Creating menus: Horizontal navigation > Explained
Few days ago I was writing about creating vertical navigation using unordered lists and CSS. Now it is time to show you how to create horizontal navigation with the same things. The beauty of CSS is that we don’t need to change anything in the XHTML code of our previous navigation. Although there are no…
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Learn how to design your own XHTML valid website
I know from my experience, that it’s not easy to make a switch between table-based design, and CSS-based design. Been there, done that – thank you. On the web there are many great resources and lessons for designing layout or navigation you can all find them on Google. There are also many documented problems between…
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IE/Win a:hover problem – Jumping paragraphs
When working yesterday on new exciting project for one of our clients I encountered a very strange and annoying bug in IE/Win. The problem came out when we went over a link with a mouse. Paragraph which contained a link including a heading just above it jumped 20px above to the form and fieldset.
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Creating menus: Vertical Navigation > Explained
In this article I will explain how to create simple vertical navigation menu with one sub-menu. I suppose there are many explanations of how to create vertical (and horizontal) navigation menus all over the web, but when I was just a beginner I learned to write both XHTML and CSS, but never really understood why…
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Creating simple contact forms
Tables are designed to show tabular data. But they are also good for building contact forms, because of their easy positioning without having to write much CSS. In this article I will show you how to create simple contact form with less code and less CSS and no tables. Is that possible? You’ll find out.
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How to start building web sites?
Although I created my first web page back in 1997, I began designing them full time in 2004. In 1997 I was designing just text pages and my layout was table based. Now, in 2006 all of layout is CSS based, so if you are starting a web career, you have to know how to…
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Useful plugins for WordPress
When I started to build my WordPress based blog site, with my limited knowledge of programming, I found WordPress plugins to be very useful. On WordPress Codex there is one section that covers most of the plugins that were released for WordPress. There is a difference which plugin will work with which WordPress version, so…
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What is this blog all about?
Why did I start a blog? What is this blog all about? Why the blog is called “Something about web design”? Who is Emanuel Blagonic? What about this guy English – it sucks:)! On all this questions answers lie just beneath this post.