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August
2003 (Part 2)
CSS Tip
: Building Blocks With CSS
Every child plays with blocks at some point. It's fun to stack them, line them up,
build houses, etc. Many Web designers take that early love of blocks and apply it to Web page design
using style sheets. It's pretty easy - if you understand the difference between a block-level and inline
element. Click here to learn more.
Promotion Tip
: Make Your Site Informative
People search the Web looking for information and often report that they can't find
the information they really want - particularly product information. Unfortunately, many Web sites
concentrate more on making the sale than providing information. But consider this: the more you give
visitors what they want, the more likely they are to hang around long enough to shop.
Click here to read on.
Accessibility Tip
: Supply Long Descriptions
One of the simplest ways to make your page more accessible to visitors using
assistive technologies like screen readers is to add alternative text descriptions to your Web pages. But
ALT text has a size limit: sometimes you just have to say more about an image. That's why the long description
(LONGDESC) attribute was added to HTML. Click here to continue.
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