Getting newspaper and magazine coverage for your book can be challenging. The book review section has disappeared from many publications; the lifestyle section is very competitive. But a simple tip sheet from your book can get you into almost any publication in America. Here are four tips on writing tip sheets:
Using Multiple External Style Sheets
If you are a regular reader of our CSS articles, I am sure you know that the best way to utilize CSS in most cases is with an external style sheet by linking it between the head tags of your document. (If you are not familiar with the different methods of CSS and how or when to use them, be sure to read our article, “External, Internal or Inline? Which Method is Best?”)
Cascading Style Sheets Basics
If you’re not a web designer, but have nevertheless experimented with HTML or popular editors like FrontPage to try to build a website, if you didn’t use cascading style sheets you probably came across most of the common problems that cascading style sheets were created to solve.
Iterative Design — The Power of Cascading Style Sheets
Sheets for Prototyping is an essential tool for designers. The ability to take a vision, quickly mock it up, and present it for critique and evaluation is critical to developing quality, usable designs.
Prototypes are most valuable when teams can iterate quickly. Taking an idea, trying it out, discovering flaws, modifying the design, and trying it out again is the essence of an iterative approach to design.
Watermarks with Cascading Style Sheets
In the print industry the sign of quality paper is a company watermark or brand emblem. This same effect can be achieved for your company’s web site using CSS. This effect is compatible only with MIE4+ and NS6.1+. Older browsers will simply not render the watermark.
Cascading Style Sheets and Absolute Positioning
…can they really be used to your advantage in optimizing your web pages?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Formatting Lists
This article will show you how you can change the style of individual lists, all lists on your page, and all lists on your entire web site by changing just a few things on your style sheet.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Backgrounds (part 2 of 2)
Part 1 focused on the many ways to specify web page backgrounds with CSS. This part 2 addresses these subjects: The background of divisions of the web page, within DIV tags.
The background of tables.
The background behind sections of text content.
The background behind INPUT and TEXTAREA form elements.
The background behind ordered and unordered lists.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Learning More
In the “Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) — Getting Started” article, the first in this series, you learned how to use an external style sheet. You simply include one line of code on your pages to affect the entire page with the style specified in that external style sheet.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Colorful Forms
If your web page forms are boring, you can spruce them up.
In this article you’ll learn how to make your forms stand out from the crowd and/or to make one of your form fields stand out from the rest of your form.