In Part 1 we created a classic two-column layout with left side navigation using CSS and only a few types of HTML tags. Part 1 presented the code for the page and explained what HTML tags we were going to use. Now we will look at the actual HTML code used so far and the CSS. Our page so far is really very simple. As you may already know, all the content (text, images, Flash etc) that the user see...

In this CSS tutorial I will not be able to show you everything there is about CSS, but you will learn how to create nice looking CSS styled web pages. After completing this tutorial, you should have enough information to explore CSS and web design even further. You can download the CSS and HTML files we build in this tutorial: CSS files You can check out what the page should look like here: C...

CSS is the acronym for: ‘Cascading Style Sheets’. CSS is an extension to basic HTML that allows you to style your web pages. An example of a style change would be to make words bold. In standard HTML you would use the <b> tag like so: <b>make me bold</b> This works fine, and there is nothing wrong with it per se, except that now if you wanted to say change all your text that...

Before sending data to the server, we have to explain three important properties of the XMLHttpRequest object. The onreadystatechange Property After a request to the server, we need a function that can receive the data that is returned by the server. The onreadystatechange property stores your function that will process the response from a server. This is not a method, the function is stored in t...

To send off a request to the server, we use the open() method and the send() method. The open() method takes three arguments. The first argument defines which method to use when sending the request (GET or POST). The second argument specifies the URL of the server-side script. The third argument specifies that the request should be handled asynchronously. The send() method sends the request off t...