If you’re looking into making your site responsive, you’ll want to start converting your pixel based columns into percentages. Fonts should also be converted using the em unit if they are currently pixel based. Changing these units for columns and fonts will allow more flexibility with scale and readability for different screen resolutions and sizes.
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I’m sure you’ve noticed the many font-size units used on the web. There seems to be an endless debate as to which unit is “the best,” especially between pixels and ems. My take on it depends on what type of project you’re working on and what goals and requirements you have. Let’s dive in and take a look at the different font-size property units.
If you’re new to wireframes, they pretty much serve like a blueprint for a website. Wikipedia has a pretty good description:
“The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work together. The wireframe usually lacks typographic style, color, or graphics, since the main focus lies in functionality, behavior, and priority of content. In other words, it focuses on what a screen does, not what it looks like.” – Wikipedia
Wireframes are great for presentation and gathering feedback on a project. It’s a lot easier going through this process before the design takes shape. Stakeholders will be more focused on the content and placement of information rather than the styling.
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We already know that the internet is always changing, but I’m pretty sure we never thought the resolution of a computer or device would change things so drastically. Ever since Apple came out with the Retina display it seems like the internet world has changed forever. I’m sure there are people who are sick of hearing about Retina this and Retina that and after all it’s just a brand name. However, I believe we would have been at this point whether Apple made it popular or not and you can thank your mobile device and tablet for that.
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The robots.txt file restricts search engines from crawling live pages that you don’t want indexed in searches. If you don’t want to restrict any files from search engines, the robots.txt file isn’t necessary, not even an empty one.
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So what is a pop menu? I like to think of them as a secondary navigation or a menu that appears for changing settings on a web application.
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Recently, I’ve been working with a lot of form confirmations. I’ve been thinking about the best way on how to approach these. Many forms redirect users either to a separate page displaying a thank you/confirmation message or have one within the same page.
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Creating a basic Master Page in ASP.NET is pretty simple and straightforward, but it can be a little tricky getting all of your links and file paths to work properly on every page.
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