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How to Draw with HTML 5 Canvas

Among the set of goodies in the HTML 5 specification is Canvas which is a way to programmatically draw using JavaScript. We’ll explore the ins and outs of Canvas in this article, demonstrating what is possible with examples and links. Why Do You Need Canvas? Canvas can be used to represent something visually in your browser. For example: » Simple diagrams » Fancy user interfaces » Animations » Charts and graphs » Embedded drawing applications » Working around CSS limitations In basic terms it’s a very simple pixel-based drawing API, but used in the right way it can be the building block for some clever stuff. What Tools Are at Your disposal? Drawing tools » Rectangles » Arcs » Paths and line drawing » Bezier and quadratic curves » Effects Fills and strokes » Shadows » Linear and radial gradients » Alpha transparency » Compositing » Transformations » Scaling » Rotation » Tran...

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning

For Website Designing and Development Web designer Hyderabad eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 A page element with relative positioning gives you the control to absolutely position children elements inside of it. To some, this is obvious. To others, this may be one of those CSS “Ah-ha!” Moments. I remember it being a big deal for me when I first “got it”. Here is a visual: The relative positioning on the parent is the big deal here. Look what would happen if you forgot that: Might not look like a big deal in this small example, but it really is a significant change. What is happening is the absolutely positioned elements are positioning themselves in relation to the body element instead of their direct parent. So if the browser window grows, that one in the bottom left is going to stick with the browser window, not hang back inside like his well behaved brother from the first image. Once you “wrap” your head around this concept (rim-shot) you will find little uses f...

Six points: how to turn more of your website visitors into customers

For Website Designing and Development Web designer Hyderabad eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 Your website will only cost you money if your website visitors don't become customers of your company. For that reason, it is important that you get the basics right. conversion optimization Check the following six points to find out if your website turns enough visitors into customers: 1. What is your website about and what's in it for the visitor? You have only a few seconds to keep a visitor on your page. If the visitor is not convinced within seconds that your site is worth reading, he'll go away. Clearly tell your website visitors which problem your product solves and why your solution is better than other solutions. This piece of information should be presented as prominently as possible. 2. Is your website trustworthy? Tell your visitors who you are and don't hide your address. If possible, show customer testimonials. Show your website vis...

Combining Web Design Business With Web Hosting Can Generate More Income For Web Designers

For Website Designing and Development web designing in Hyderabad eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 Web designers and developers are the foundation of the Internet. If you are skilled in web design or web development you can make a growing income on the Internet. The secret to making money with your web design and development skills is to include web hosting in your web design or web development quotes or standard packages. You can add $50 a month to your income, hosting your client sites with more ease. You don't need to get a dedicated server and you don't need to worry about trying to compete with web hosting companies. What most people think is just getting a website up. They contact the web designers first, without really knowing that there are web designers and web hosts. Terms with "web designer"get more searches per day than terms with "hosting". People are looking for web designers to get their sites on the Internet. Web designers ...

Tips for Web Design that Crosses Cultures

The internet has the potential to put a global audience at your fingertips, but there’s far more to reaching across cultural divides than simply putting your website out there and waiting for people to visit it. There are issues to do with language, design and SEO that all need to be addressed before your website becomes truly accessible ‘world-wide’. Thankfully, though, there are a number of simple tricks you can apply that will make it all a less daunting process. For Website Designing and Development Web design services hyderabad eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 Translate your content This is perhaps the most obvious but also the most important tip. English is arguably the most commonly used language internationally, but it still serves as a native tongue for only about 20% of the world’s population. Clearly, an English-only website will be inaccessible to a huge percentage of your potential online audience of 1.8 billion people. There are various ways to transla...

Expanding Images using HTML5′s contenteditable tabindex

HTML5 has a new attribute, contenteditable, which can be applied to any element which allows it to be edited directly in the browser window. Think of text input with a predefined value, but it can literally be any element. Form elements like text inputs support the :focus pseudo class, which allow us to style those elements when they are clicked upon or otherwise navigated to. Giving an element the contenteditable attribute means it also now supports the :focus pseudo class, which opens up some interesting possibilities! We’ll exploit this little trick to make an expanding image (like a lightbox without the overlay) right within some content. UPDATE: Even better, you can give attributes a tabindex attribute, like you would a form element, which allow allows :focus without the editability. This article has been updated to go that route instead. For Website Designing and Development Web designing packages hyderabad eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 HTML5 Markup HTML5 ...

How to Make a Mobile Compatible Website

The mobile website design is the most promising platform for several consumer driven companies. The number of mobile phone users in the world is more than 2.4 billion and out of that nearly 30% of users surf the internet on a regular basis. This is the primary reason for the increasing popularity of mobile web development in fact, many people predicts that the internet browsing will be leap over the usage of the internet browsing on the desktop. A large number of WAP mobile users browse the internet on mobiles but are often faced with the difficulty of improper display and loading of the website. For Website Designing and Development Hyderabad web design companies eMail : varadesigns@yahoo.com phone : +91 9676739333 A mobile website involves special designing and development procedures. Here are some of the points that you need to bear in mind while making mobile web site. The most primary requirement that one needs to understand is that the web browsing on the computer and the mobile ...