10 Web Usability tips for your website

At the beginning, perhaps you were developing websites just for fun or you were just learning some new tricks, but now, when you are developing a website or a web application you can’t afford to skip the usability basics rules.

In this article we’ll try to remember some basic, unwritten web usability rules.

Usability Tips for your website or web application

The outline dotted border and the image replacement technique

If you are a web developer then you surely know what is an image replacement technique and what that means. One of the most common CSS techniques is the Phark Method, a very good and simple method.

Although this is very used, I noticed developers tend to skip fixing Firefox appearance of a dotted border that goes to the edge of the screen. In this tutorial I will show you how this can be fixed in a simple way.

Image replacement technique and dotted border

Submit form on enter key using anchor

These days I tested what’s happening if you have a form and instead a submit input you choose to submit the form using an anchor. If you do that, you will notice that the form won’t submit on ENTER key. So how can we submit a form on enter key using anchor?

Center a block element without knowing its width

Centering an element may seem quite simple thinking that “text-align:center” will solve the problem. Or maybe set “width” and “margin: 0 auto”, but what happens when you need to center a block element with variable width?

In this article you’ll learn how to center a block element with variable width.

By default div has auto width