| Often
WWW pages have a very square look, with very little smoothness
around the columns. A simple technique which can be used
to enhance the look of a page is to use a smooth corner.
This corner should like from one column into another with
the same color as the corner. This gets rid of the sharp
edges that are produced when a column uses a background
colour. Here are two of the corners I've produced for left
and right columns, respectively (see December 2000 for their
usage):
 
You can see that they are half transparent, and half coloured
the same colour as the column (##FFFF99, which is a WWW-safe
yellow colour).
The other little trick that I've learnt is to smooth the
edges of the end of a row. A good example of this is at
the top of my home page. I did this with a curved corner
which is white on the top right-hand side, and transparent
on the bottom left-hand side:
Thus, as the background is white, it looks as if there
is a smooth corner at the end.
Oh I also found out why some pages are so difficult to
re-format, it's typically because the were produced from
Microsoft Word, which adds lots of <span> and </span>
statements. If possible, delete them as the embed formating
information, which is difficult to modify. I use the menu
option Clean Up HTML (which the span defined as the tag
I wish to delete) to get rid of these tags. |
