13/03/2008 by swordfish.

At QBS PC Help we do not use tables to design websites as keeping the content and styles separate (XHTML and CSS) produces a quick loading site that’s search engine friendly and far more accessible than a table based layout.

We do use tables to contain data that’s best served via a table. So rather than a plain table lets look at a few ways to smarten up our table displays, using CSS. To see how to do this take a look at our latest web design article - How to use CSS to style a table.

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10/03/2008 by swordfish.

To help with speed of download, search engine friendliness and accessibility CSS navigation is no doubt the best solution.

So where do you start? The best thing to do is lay out your navigational links using an unordered list. You can then style this list any way you want using a linked CSS style sheet.

Find out more…

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04/03/2008 by swordfish.

If you change a file name of one or more of your web pages and a visitor tries to access the old page saved in their browser they will get a 404 page (not found) response from your hosting server. So what’s the best way of ensuring all your visitors end up on the right page?

Our latest web design article focuses on using a .htaccess file to achieve these redirections - read more about this now

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27/02/2008 by swordfish.

One of the problem areas of designing a web site is how to produce a good looking and accessible contact form.

At QBS we firmly believe in using CSS rather than a table based solution. So our latest article explains how to use the CSS approach and shows you all the CSS and XHTML code you will need to to design your own accessible form.

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30/01/2008 by swordfish.

Get your site appearing on Google, Yahoo and MSN!

A good and proven Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company can certainly help you achieve this, but what’s involved in optimising a web site?

Our latest web design guide will help you to optimise your own site and provide a great check list if you want to employ an SEO company.

To read more about the ins and outs of SEO click here.

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23/01/2008 by swordfish.

We are pleased to announce our latest web design article ‘Why QBS PC Help use ems page styling’.

Ems and Percentages are considered the “best” units for sizing fonts and layouts in CSS. They are resizeable in all modern Web browsers that support resizing and they are specified relative to the user’s font size preferences, and can therefore adapt to the viewer’s screen.

To read more about ems and percentages and grab a free web template that shows how ems and percentage styling works click here.

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