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Your relatives are returning from an overseas journey and you intend to pick them up from the airport. In order to obtain their flight information and time of arrival you enter the official airport website and start the search. In the searching field you enter the name of the city your relatives arrive from and press search. Then what happens?...Read more
How to Make the Background of a Div Semi-Transparent?
If you look below, the light gray div over the darker one is transparent. As a result, the content inside the darker gray div shows up through the light gray div over it. This capability can enable us to create really attractive designs. It's really simple to do it. If you are interested, just read along...Read more
How to Add Alternate StyleSheets?
The concept of alternate stylesheets is exactly as the name suggests using alternative stylesheets to change the look of a web page with a click. This makes the website utilizing this technique a little more personalized. The other inherent benefit of this feature is complete separation of content and presentation in a web page, the ideal goal for any website...Read more
Comment Tags Can Cause Content Duplication In IE
IE can’t handle too many comment tags when there are floating div’s. As a result, it renders the comment tag in a peculiar way and the result is duplication of content...Read more
Positioning Footer at the bottom of the Browser
Here is an example for how to position the footer at the bottom of the browser using CSS. In these examples, footer will always stay at the bottom of the browser irrespective of the amount of the content...Read more
Reserved ID Values in IE/Win
If you are facing some weird issues in IE/Win, I suggest making sure that you are not using one of the reserved ID values in the HTML...Read more
How to Add Favicons?
Adding Favicon to a website not only makes it look professional but also, helps the branding of the company logo. Favicon has the potential to make a lasting impression on the visitors and hence it helps promote brand recognition...Read more
SHTML Makes Updating Website Easy
ASHTML (Server parsed HTML) is an html document that requires parsing on the server before it is sent to the client browser. All the normal html tags work exactly same in shtml document. The only difference is that shtml document lets us include other elements into the html document. The extension of such document is as .shtml rather than .html, where S stands for Server Side Include...Read more
How to Create Columns with Div's?
When we at Ecommerce Partners started using div's rather than table for web page layout, the most daunting experience for me was how to create columns using div's. So, here is the solution for all those website developers who are struggling to use div's for web page layout...Read more
Conversion from HTML to XHTML
At Ecommerce Partners.net, we (HTML Production Department) were producing html codes for websites using tables for layout. Ahh, good old tables! Then about three months ago, XHTML was made the standard in our company. This implied all our websites are now coded using XHTML, no HTML at all...Read more
Browser Safe Fonts
Fonts make a big difference to the look and experience of the website. Usage of fonts requires sense of aesthetics and discretion. We have the liberty to use any font we want in an image but when we specify the fonts for the text on a web page, we need to ensure that we use only "browser safe" fonts...Read more