Easy as A,B,C – dynamic A to Z indexesIt's a good idea to offer your visitors as many logical ways to navigate your website as possible. This gives them more chances to find exactly the product or information for which they came to your site in the first place. Sitemaps are a wonderful solution, but many of your visitors may find an A to Z index of your site easier to understand. Chris Heilmann explains how to implement such an ...

Creating Aqua Style ImagesAnyone that has used a Mac running OSX will have seen Aqua style icons in action. Aqua is the name of the default theme of OSX and presents a visual style with a kind of liquid, glossy effect. Aqua style icons look very nice and convey an image of style and professionalism, but needn't be that hard to create, being composed primarily of transparency layers and lighting effects.Some of you may also have used Widgets (Yahoo! Widgets) ...

Design Principles that Shape a Web SiteHave you ever wondered why one web page interests you while another leaves you cold? If you're designing your own web site, that topic is of more than idle interest. There are specific design principles that you can use to ensure web surfers have a good experience when they visit your web site and keep coming back for more. This article explains the details.The fundamental principlesAs building a web site is a combination of ...

Create Great JavaScript and CSS Menus SimplyYou have many options when it comes to displaying your web site's menu on its pages. This article will show you some of the more appealing of these options. We will consider ease of maintenance, aesthetics and user-friendliness.Many sites today have found new and interesting ways to show menus on their pages. There are still the standard HTML hyperlinks. There's nothing wrong there; simplicity always works. DHTML menus that float up and down the ...