Articles & Tutorials

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  • All follow current best practices and use clean markup.
  • Are standards compliant and follow published accessibility guidelines.
  • Work in all browsers tested, even IE5mac, failing gracefully when there is no script support.
  • There is a mix of topics. Some are about the fundamentals while others are about interesting and useful discoveries.

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Thumbnail & Caption

How to use CSS to display Image with Caption...

Branching Techniques

Say no to CSS hacks with branching techniques...

Conditional Comments

Microsoft Conditional Comments. Things you should know...

SS-Includes & more

Server-Side Includes, CSS and JavaScript files. If you link many documents to a single file, it makes sense that a single change within that file is instantly brought to the ones linked to it....

CSS Layouts

One clean HTML markup, many layouts. It is this thread on the CSS-Discuss List that initiated this article....

3 Column Layout

3 column Fluid Layout. This solution to create a table-less fluid three-column layout appears to be free of CSS filters, Structural hacks, IE/Win Conditional Comments, Cryptic CSS rules, Lengthy Styles Sheets...

Code Listing

How to style a code listing with CSS. The challenge: text must be able to flow, numbers must not be hard coded, markup must be semantic and hook-free...

Extension Manager

This article explains how to use the Extension Manager to install a Dreamweaver Extension.

Body onload events

It is simple to move onload events from the body tag to window.onload.

Prevent Hotlinking

.httaccess code to prevent hotlinking of our site assets was causing trouble in Internet Explorer 6. This article discusses the problem, and our solution for this and several other issues in commonly deployed code.