Web Essentials

Web Essentials

The Top Ten Countdown

Whether you are designing a corporate web page or building online documentation, the question about how best to tackle a web-based project are the same.

What things are best to do? What things are best to avoid? What makes a web site successful? The Top Ten Countdown gives you practical skills and insight.

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CSS Best Practices

Using Cascading Style Sheets to Bring Sanity and Standards to HTML

There's an astonishing revolution happening in HTML coding and web design. The web design industry is being dragged, shuddering, into the 21st century. Hideously complex methods of designing web pages are disappearing, replaced by clarity and simplicity.

What is this magic bullet? Cascading Style Sheets.

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Paperless PDFs

Designing for the Screen

If your customers think that PDF stands for Problematic Document Format, you're not alone.

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat to design better, screen-friendly, and user-friendly electronic documentation.

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Vectors & Bitmaps

Graphics Techniques for Technical Writers

In these days of budget cutbacks, technical writers often need to wear multiple hats: writer, designer, illustrator, production manager.

Learn about handling computer graphics for print and the web, and how to deal with the complexities of colour and illustration for technical documents.

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Page Layout Best Practices

Conquering the Terror of the Blank Page

Got designer's block? Staring at a blank page unable to decide where to begin? In this short presentation, Jim helps define where to begin designing a page, whether it is a technical manual or a promotional brochure.

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The presentation was created using HTML and CSS, and requires a large browser window to be displayed properly. It also requires a fairly recent web browser. Sorry, IE 5.x Mac users — use Safari or Mozilla.