On a recent web design project, it became necessary to drop a newsletter sign-up area in a rather space-restricted footer. Instead of try to cram the form fields into the footer itself, or redirect the user to a sign-up form page, I opted to drop the form into a lightbox – or to be specific – a greybox.
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Big web page headers are in design vogue at the moment, so I thought I’d incorporate one into my new site, keeping all links and content below the fold. After I’d dropped the header into the template, I ran into an annoying problem: every time a user clicked a link, the view would bounce back to the top of the page as it reloaded, forcing the user to scroll all the way back down to the content area.
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This article covers the most basic method of giving each Joomla 1.5 menu item different visual properties. After you’ve learned how to separate each menu item into its own class, complete with its own styling, the design possibilities are endless.
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