Merging Your Design and High Quality Content

Copywriters and web designers are usually separated into two different groups as they are often thought of as being two entirely different professions. Indeed they are. However, good content writers learn to use their content to compliment the way in which a web page is designed. A great deal of web design techniques can be easily merged with high quality content to make a more cohesive and attractive total web page.

As it is often said, if content is king then web design is the country over which it rules. Few kings that didn't reflect their country stayed in power for long. Merging your design and high quality content is the best way to attract readers and hold their attention.

Become Familiar with Space

This is a concept that often thwarts the average beginning Internet writer. When writing for school or creating a novel, little consideration is given to the importance of creating space between groups of text. Do not try to cram as many words into a single area as you can. The average piece of online content should be 500 to 750 words. As the typical reader only scans your content, creating space to make this easier will help them do so. Try the following to create space in your content:

Use lists where appropriate rather than using a great deal of commas within block text.
Include at least one space between every header and subhead.
Make sure you also include a space between paragraphs in lieu of indenting.
Format your page so that words do not come too close to advertisements or banners. Especially with flashy ads, content can be very difficult to read if it comes too close.

Experiment with Fonts and Color

The old way of publishing content online is beginning to change. Now, a variety of fonts and special text applications are available. Feel free to use a font that makes your content easier to read. Within reason, larger letters are much easier to scan than small ones. You can feel free to choose a font that compliments your design. For example, a web site on Medieval weaponry might benefit from a few entries using an easy to read yet antiquity looking font such as Book Antiqua or Monotype Corsiva.

In addition, using a color in the web design to accent important text can be an excellent way to bring attention to such entries and assist with content scanning. This also creates a hidden connection with your readers that can build credibility. In general, the more time and effort that you put into creating content that is obviously built for a specific page, the more your readers will trust that the content is reliable and trustworthy.

This is a guest post written by Corry Cummings.

Corry Cummings is the owner of Content Customs, a content creation company that specializes in high quality web content writing services. He also runs a blog over at Content Customs, which is managed and written by one of the head writers of the company.

Adobe Invites Designers and Developers to Join 'Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010'

Adobe India has announed 'Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010' which will be held at Bangalore (India) on 25-26 August, 2010. This is a great opportunity for Web Designer and Developers to plug in to the web.

Based on the theme Functional Intent Meets Pixel Perfection, AFPS 2010 will feature distinct days for developers and designers. You will learn everything from innovations in Flash, Flex, LCDS, LiveCycle, to bringing great experiences to mobile phones and devices, to the future of the platform. You will learn new technologies that enable integrated design and develop workflows, and innovative ways to monetize content.

AFPS 2010 Structure

Develop Day (25 Aug 2010) – content on this day will find immediate resonance with Web Application, Desktop Application and Mobile Application Developers from the world of ActionScript, Flex, Flash ColdFusion, Java, PHP, .NET, including Game Developers. Architects interested in creating multi-tiered enterprise systems that go beyond basic RIAs will also benefit from signing up for this day.

Design Day (26 Aug 2010) – will feature content for Application UI Designers, Interaction Designers as well as designers who currently specialize in web or video and want to expand their skills. If your goal is to create interactive content, applications or video for the browser, desktop, or devices using Adobe technologies, you will benefit from signing up for this day.

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5 Open Source HTML5 Video Players for Web Developers

Now a days every one intend to aware about HTML5 more and more. According to experts HTML5 is a future of the web. There are some interesting features added to HTML5, Video and audio elements for media playback is one of them. I like this feature very much.

In this post I am sharing five open source HTML5 video players to help web designer and developers. This list includes Video JS, MediaFront, Flare Video etc.

Here's the following list:

MediaFront

The mediafront platform is an open source (GPLv3) front end media solution for the web. This platform offers two industry changing - open source media players that can be used free of charge on any website! Including the Open Standard Media (OSM) Player ( as shown ), which is an open source (GPLv3) all-in-one HTML5 media player for the web!





JME
jme is an HTML5 audio / video development kit with Flash and VLC Fallback, which focuses on flexibility, intuitive DOM-API and semantic code.





FlareVideo
Flare is an open source HTML 5 video player. It is easy CSS/HTML/JS customization and theming. Completely open source and free for commercial use.





Projekktor
Projekktor is a JS wrapper for the new HTML5 video and audio elements. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides useful non standard features.





Video JS
Video JS is a javascript-based video player that uses the HTML5 video functionality built into advanced browsers. In general, the benefit of using an HTML5 player is a consistent look between browsers.





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How Important DOCTYPE Declaration is for your HTML Document

Today I am going to share a very basic problem related to DOCTYPE declaration. We all know that according to HTML standard it is must that each HTML document has document type declaration. The "DOCTYPE" begins the HTML document and tells a validator which version of HTML to use in checking the document's syntax.

Have you ever think if you don't include DOCTYPE declaration in your HTML document specially when you convert your HTML document to any dynamic page like .php or .aspx. If your answer is no then following are the problem you could face during browser compatibility check:

1. First and major issue you'll face DIV element centering. If you have used margin: 0 auto 0 auto; to centering the any DIV element in your in your page it will go left align in the IE6 and IE7. Look at example below:





2. If you have used padding in any DIV element and adjusted the width of that DIV element it won't show correct in IE6/7. Look at example below:





Above are the examples I have faced during working on recent .NET project. If you have faced similar problem ever but different issue please share it here by leaving a comment.

Updated as on June 07, 2010.

3. This is a third instance I have noticed today during working on .jsp page. If you are using iframe in your .jsp page and have a scrolling auto, then it will not work on IE6/7. To solve this you need to declare DOCTYPE declaration in your external page. Look at example below: