Imulus Web Development Designer Cheat Sheet

Goal:

This page contains standard HTML elements and possible styling for them. All of these effects are done just using CSS, and can be coded to work on any site. Elements used frequently in a design should be included in a template PSD file to be used for reference by the developers.

Typefaces:

Here is a list of compatible web-rendering fonts that will display properly on Windows and Mac. In cases where a Windows and Mac font are different but look extremely close they are both included with a / between them (i.e. Windows Version / Mac Version).

Arial — Bold Version, Italic Version

Courier New — Bold Version, Italic Version

Georgia — Bold Version, Italic Version

Lucida Console / Monaco — Bold Version, Italic Version

Lucida Sans Unicode / Lucida Grande — Bold Version, Italic Version

Palatino Linotype / Book Antiqua — Bold Version, Italic Version

Tahoma / Geneva — Bold Version, Italic Version

Times New Roman / Times — Bold Version, Italic Version

Trebuchet MS — Bold Version, Italic Version

Verdana — Bold Version, Italic Version

Headings:

Headings are generally used to clarify content sections and sub-sections. They can be any typeface, have any border property, and be any color.

h1 heading

h2 heading

h3 heading

h4 heading

h5 heading
h6 heading

Links:

A visited link is important for usability in order to visually show viewers where they have previously been on a site. Links can be different colors, have different underline borders and change color and border when the mouse is over the link.

Normal Link – normal link styling

Visited Link – visited link styling

Hover Link – hover link styling

Normal Link – normal link styling

Visited Link – visited link styling

Hover Link – hover link styling

Lists:

Lists used to display bulleted content can be styled using different methods as well.

Borders:

Borders can be applied to nearly any HTML element. Further, different border types can be applied to different sides of an element. Allowing for pretty neat border-only HTML image thumbnails.

solid borders

dotted borders

dashed borders

thumbnail example

Thumnail 1 Thumnail 2

Tables:

Tables used to hold data can be styled using borders, background colors, and small images.

Header Second Column Third Column
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Header Second Column Third Column
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Header Second Column Third Column
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data
Data Data Data