CSS Menu Things You Must Remember

Before this I went on about how making a CSS menu can be very tricky if we didn’t pay enough attention to the arrangement of the ULs and LIs. I also provided some pointers and a kind of guide for those who’re planning to use the dropdown menu tutorials I provided.

My client of the dropdown menu inspired me to write about some of things you must remember when you’re preparing a CSS menu.

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HTML and CSS List Levels

I’m closing one of my xHTML/CSS projects soon. During the project, I needed to implement a dropdown menu and I don’t really use DHTML menus. I find that CSS with a touch of Javascript to be more manageable.

So the examples online that I hunted were from A List Apart (ALA), Nick Rigby (author of the dropdown article at ALA) and an all time CSS menu resource, Listamatic.

The tutorials were easy to understand but I faced a more general problem (that I’m embarassed of actually). I needed to understand the whole logical arrange of lists.

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9rules Only a Community Away

You know what I like best about 9rules? Other than the fact that it’s got a cool website design and many talented bloggers in their niche behind it, they’ve a vision of what a blogging network should be as it grows bigger.

Not long ago, 9rules was only a website filled with the latest articles by authors blogging their niche. Now they’ve evolved further into something most networks normally don’t aim to be because of the generic goal of providing just the best content.

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Simple Website Mission for 2006

It’s a new year of opportunities for everyone and anyone around the world. Before the clock hand struck the middle of the night and 1 second, many bloggers already posted their resolutions and wishes for this year. I took a much longer time to come up with something.

Instead of my new year resolutions and assumptions of things to come in 2006, I’m going to explain the simple mission and goal I’d like to achieve this year.

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Passionate for Knowledge

I just finished reading the Creating Passionate Users blog and their new article, The hi-res user experience is something that explains the confusion of why our passion helps us aim to be better in our work.

People are not passionate about things they know nothing about. They may be interested. They may spend money. But without the enhanced skill and knowledge that adds resolution, there is no real passion.

This just hits right on the money about myself and my passion for website design.

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How Effective are Long Sales Letters?

From the research while surfing and using Google to search, I’ve found out that most people admit long sales letter reeling in more business than short, straight to the point stuff. This just baffles me from all sides to who really spends more than 10 minutes actually reading a letter trying to get you to buy their product.

Well, I hope to share with you my research findings and together we’ll sniff out the clues of getting a more concrete answer on why more business comes from a long sales letter.

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Malaysian Website Designers Soon Extinct

Every day I’ll run through the employment opportunities section of the papers to see the demand of designers or programmers in the market. I’ve noticed very few advertise these jobs in the printed media anymore. Most of these jobs are likely to be found on Jobstreet or probably the newer Jobs and More website.

While I was walking today, it came to my attention that most employers are requesting for graphic designer with skills of being able to create website or ‘web page designs’.

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Why do corporate websites not have advertisements?

A group of us had a small get together and started discussing about the future of online advertising. It’s great how Google has monopolized the online market and considerably push the opportunities you could get from online advertising.

While discussing about the types of advertisers that now exist from the Adsense type model to the ones like Chitika, we also started debating and questioning each other why we think not all corporate websites have hosted advertisements on their websites.

After all, it would make a lot of extra income for them, right?

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UX Magazine

Imagine what does UX mean.

If you’re somewhere close to thinking ‘User Xomething’ then you’re closer than what I thought of at first. The term UX means User Experience, which is real catchy in my opinion. They’re suppose to be a magazine and I really did wish we had something offline like this. However, they’re an online publication and you’ll need to visit UX Magazine’s website to read the articles.

But she sure is a ‘beaut’ presented by agent CSSBeauty.

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What is a Design Mockup?

The word mockup is uncommon to most Malaysians who half the time are selfishly doing their own thing at the top while the smarter ones try to learn about it. But to make the selfish even worst, they try to be smart and act as if they know what it is.

It’s lying, impolite, rude, and unprofessional. These people take advantage of it due to their higher level and power to hide a weakness. As much as I’d like to be talking about some of these Malaysian clients, let me clear the fog of the meaning; design mockup.

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