Just this week we have launched Universal Email 4, the next generation email extension for Dreamweaver. It’s packed with a bunch of great new features including a redesigned interface and digital file management integration to help make the process of adding email functionality to your website quick and easy.
Let’s take a quick look at some of the powerful new features Universal Email 4 has to offer for both new and existing WebAssist customers.
When it comes to web design color is king. The theme or overall color scheme of a website can set a websites tone, help accentuate certain page elements, and in some cases significantly impact a site visitor’s level of interest in your website.
Unfortunately, selecting or more importantly applying a color scheme is not a quick or easy process. To change a site’s colors you must dig through CSS to make these changes and are forced to make the same set of changes again and again until you get it right. Wouldn’t it be great if you could test, change and update the entire color scheme and images of your website quickly, without digging through the CSS or code? With Theme-It you can!
One of the first, and often overlooked, elements to decide upon when building a CSS-based website is the type of CSS layout you plan on using. Wait… There is more than one type of CSS layout? Yep, in fact there are 4 primary CSS layout types. Each CSS layout is based on a different methodology and serves a different purpose. As a whole, the different types of CSS layouts provide added flexibility when designing websites.
Let’s take a look at each CSS layout, define the advantages and disadvantages of each, and review various examples so you can determine which type of CSS layout is best for you.
So you are in the process of learning CSS and you have come across two fundamental CSS properties for keeping space between box elements, CSS margins and CSS padding. They sound like they accomplish the exact same thing so what’s the difference? Are they interchangeable? Should you use one or the other?
At WebAssist we have a large community learning CSS from the ground up. So naturally we get a variety of questions regarding basic CSS properties. In an effort to clarify let’s take a quick look at the difference between the two.
In most modern web browsers you have probably noticed a tiny icon that appears to the left of the URL in the address bar, in the browser tabs as well as in your bookmarks menu and toolbar. This small icon is called a Favicon or favorites icon, which can help visitors quickly identify your website and further establish your brand within a browser.
If you do not have a Favicon setup a default icon will display, such as a tiny blank page in Firefox or the browser’s logo used in Internet Explorer. The following covers 4 steps for adding a Favicon to your website which canl help personalize your site’s presence within a browser.
For many, learning CSS can be a challenging and time consuming process. The good news is that there are a large number of resources and tools, like our Dreamweaver extensions, to help you get a jump start towards better understanding CSS and creating great looking CSS layouts of your own.
Below is a list of six popular books for learning CSS. Whether your new to CSS or experienced, these books can help take your web design to the next level. Check them out and feel free to recommend any that you have used.
Content is one of the most valuable things you can focus on during development of your website. Consider each page of your website an opportunity to capture or lose your audience. If a web page has paragraph after paragraph of text, many visitors won’t bother to begin reading.
There are various other things to be leery of when writing for the web. This article covers eight tips to help you succeed when writing content for your website.
Hey everyone, I decided for my next post I would put out a little freebie template for you all to download. I always loved getting my hands on other designers PSDs and taking a look at how they structured their designs, layers, etc.
So feel free to download this template and use it for whatever you like! I included three versions of the same website but altered the color schemes slightly. Play around with some of the layers Hue/Saturation and see what you can come up with!
Planning in Web design, just as in any other design process, is essential. Not only does careful planning cut your development time considerably, but it makes it far easier to achieve a uniform look and feel for your website – making it friendlier and easier to use.
This section briefly covers some of the basics of website design: what to focus on, what options to consider, and what pitfalls to avoid. If you are an established Web site developer who has covered this ground before, feel free to skip this section.
Rounded corners are quite common these days across lots of websites. They are definitely appealing and help change it up from the normal square boxes a browser renders by default.
There are several techniques to create rounded corners (i.e. nest 4 divs and have a corner image aligned in each one), but my favorite by far is using the new CSS3 border radius property. Essentially, you can just use a few lines of CSS and create awesome looking rounded corners for an element on your webpage.
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