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You will find  many articles on WordPress, Dokuwiki and other content management systems on this blog. It also contain good web design tips.  This post consolidates all the articles related to content management systems, web designing, and web hosting in one place. Check them out !

This is a collection of resources put together by Google which teaches you how to optimize your website. Google has been at the forefront in urging people (mainly web masters, web designers, and web developers) in creating websites which support multiple devices, are fast loading, and standards compliant. With this goal in mind, Google is [...]

In CSS, you can fix the font size of your content using 4 different units namely em, px, pt, and %. Each of these units have their own characteristics which make them ideally suitable for use in specific situations.  The following is  a mind map highlighting the differences between these four units used by web [...]

Web accessibility is a hot topic for web designers and users alike. For the former, it is a choice of following open standards and making sure that the websites they build are easy to navigate by its visitors and search engines alike. And for the latter (end users), it is a case of having a [...]

I recently designed a site where I had Javascript popups /CSS menu side by side with some Flash content. Unfortunately, when ever the Javascript or CSS popup was activated, the Flash content was overlapping  the former.  The solution to this problem lies in lowering the z-index value of the CSS or Javascript. A more useful  [...]

It is possible to display any HTML element as a table using the CSS display property. Now a days with modern web browsers providing support for advanced CSS properties, it has become feasible to use block elements to display data in a tabular format. This is done by clever use of the values in the [...]