Building a useable website
Building a useable website can seem daunting. Here is a quick guideline to help you on your way. 1.It’s all about your content To get your website listed appropriately the content of your website needs to be nested between the tags. This way it gets read by the search engines. Your content also needs to be unique and get your point across.What is it about your product or service that is better and different from your competitions. This is called your usp or unique selling proposition and should be conveyed clearly and immediately upon hitting the page. 2.Make effective use of your title and description tags These are your two most important tags when it comes to referencing your page...
Plan ahead
Making a successful website is not only about having aesteticly pleasing pages, they also (and probably most important) must be functional and easy to navigate. If you want to find some information, you usually don't want to figure out how to get to those pages first. What we already know is: The pages must be functional, with logical navigation. How do you ensure that? Most importantly, the navigation must be the same from page to page, do not change the functions and placement of navigation on similar pages. I.e. pages on level 1 must appear the same, level 2 pages must function similar to each other, but may be different from level 1 pages - just make sure there's no confusion where you (the...
What is CSS?
CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentational characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader...
Problems you may have when using CSS
Although the CSS1 specification was completed in 1996, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3 was released in that year featuring some support for CSS, it would be more than three years before any web browser achieved near-full implementation of the specification. Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Macintosh, shipped in March of 2000, was the first browser to have full (better than 99 percent) CSS1 support, surpassing Opera, which had been the leader since its introduction of CSS support fifteen months earlier. Other browsers followed soon afterwards, and many of them additionally implemented parts of CSS2, though as of 2006, no browser has achieved full implementation of CSS2. Properties specific to aural...
Designing a webpage without tables
Tableless Web design is the art of building websites without the use of tables. It was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) to improve accessibility and make HTML code easier to handle. Instead of tables, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) positioning is used to arrange elements and text on a Web page. Rationale HTML was originally designed as a semantic markup language intended for sharing scientific documents and research papers online. However, as the Internet expanded from the academic and research world into the mainstream in the mid 1990s, and became more media oriented, graphic designers sought for ways to control the visual appearance of the Web pages presented to end users, and to...
How to choose the best keywords for your website
Keywords or key phrases you choose will determine how your site is positioned in the search engines. It is always better to have lots of pages each focusing on a small group of keywords. This will give them more relevance to each individual page. For example if your site is about shoes you may have lots of different types of shoes. Your index page should have a menu leading into each of the different categories of shoes. You might have a page for sandals, one for platform shoes as well as stilettos, court shoes and flat heel shoes. Choosing keywords First you have to think like your customer. What would they type into a search engine if they wanted to find the products you are selling. Use phrases...
Choosing the best font for your websites
If one aspect of design has suffered most in its transition to the Web, it is the art of typography. For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined. But times change. Since the adoption of CSS into mainstream Web design, we have entered a new age of Web typography. This facet of design has been opened up to the Web designer in a way that wasn't possible in the past. We now have the tools to return typography to its true role within the sphere of design. However, if we've learnt anything over the last ten years, it's that the Web is not...
Using the right colors when designing sites
Color selection for Website design is a topic that's been approached from many different angles. Some people approach it from a usability standpoint, explaining how to ensure readability and cross-platform compatibility. Some well-meaning people try to explain that design is all about feelings, describing colors with such hallucinatory delineations as happiness, energy, and stability. Others come to the table with advertising concerns like, "Yellow means cheap, green means money, and black may mean elegance, or maybe…death!" Have you ever wondered where designers get that mystical ability to say whether a color is or is not "working"? While it's true that sea-foam green doesn't make a good...
A few webdesign tips
This is intended as a collection of tips and advice to give a quick overview of what to be aware of when designing web pages. This is mainly to give you some hints and ideas, but some of the hints may be linked to longer articles about just that theme. DO plan ahead People think of different things when they hear "web design." Some put too much weight on the word "design" and forgetting "web" - but a site can look great and still be a failure if it doesn't work. Remember to plan how it should function, as part of the content. DO make it quick If your site is slow to download, your visitors will most likely leave - especially if they don't know what the site is about. Remember, the rival is only a...
What are popups
Geocities, Tripod and numerous other places, you see the popup advertizing. This is not about those. This is about using popup windows in the design of your pages - what do you have to think about? I started with a maybe provocative question in the header: Pop or popup? This would indicate that pages can't be popular at the same time as popup windows are used, but is the world that black and white? No, of course not. There are good ways to use it, and there are bad ways. The reason given for using popups may in some, or maybe many cases, tell us if it's put to good use. I just read an interesting article about the use of splash pages, and there were some examples used. One of them used a popup...
Creating sitemaps
A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map. But why do you need a site map? Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine spiders need an easy to follow map to find all the pages within your site. A site map gives them a simple navigational tool. Site maps have 3 main benefits: 1. A site map allows visitors to easily find what they are looking for by simply visiting your site map and clicking on the link to go directly to the page they want to visit. 2. Often technologies employed to assist Google started allowing people to submit site...
The importance of a good designed logo
The most monotonous entities in the known universe, forms, are a staple of every web programmer’s balanced diet. Whether we like them or not, forms are the gatekeepers to our site’s goodies and often their design alone determines whether a user will try what you’re selling or simply walk away. Without pomp or circumstance, here are ten tips to transform your plain vanilla into double chocolate chunk with marshmallows. 1. Remember Your Markup We’ve notice a lot of people forgetting to use the tools that are already made accessible to them by the very medium that they work in. And so we’ve highlighted a few HTML elements below that are made especially for forms...
Promoting your website
You've spent the money, got the website, now the visitors and inquiries from your website should start flooding in, right? Well, maybe, but there are some essential steps you can take to make sure of it. The beauty of a website is that you will get some visitors regardless of how much promotion you do. The world-wide-web is a huge place - by chance, people are bound to stumble on to your website. However, getting a website and not spending a small amount of time to promote it is sort of like ordering 30,000 brochures and not giving them out. Inhouse Promotion The first step in promoting your website is to include it in all your advertising and promotional material for your business or organisation...
Creating webforms
The most monotonous entities in the known universe, forms, are a staple of every web programmer's balanced diet. Whether we like them or not, forms are the gatekeepers to our site's goodies and often their design alone determines whether a user will try what you're selling or simply walk away. Without pomp or circumstance, here are ten tips to transform your plain vanilla into double chocolate chunk with marshmallows. 1. Remember Your Markup We've notice a lot of people forgetting to use the tools that are already made accessible to them by the very medium that they work in. And so we've highlighted a few HTML elements below that are made especially for forms. Just to refreshen the ol' web noggin...
Frequently Asked Web Design Questions
If you'd like to do business on the Internet, launching a quality web site is an absolute must. Learning how to design your own web site can be a little intimidating. However, there is a wealth of free information available on the Internet to assist you.The best way to learn is by doing. Take the first step and begin researching. Once you understand the basics of web design, you can begin experimenting with some more advanced coding techniques.A great place to start is HTML Goodies: the years, I have received many questions in regard to web design. Below, are some of the most frequently asked questions I receive on a regular basis:Question: I am in the process of designing my first web page and am...
Creating Your Own Web Page is Easy - A Tutorial (Part 2)
Now, Let's continue with Part 2. We will discuss the following here:Creating tables Using CSS boxes as webpage layoutHere's how:Creating tablesTables are very useful in the presentation of data. The following are the html tags to be used to create a basic table:Single-column table:‹table width="400" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4"> ‹tr›‹td›row 1 data‹/td›‹/tr› ‹tr›‹td›row 2 data‹/td›‹/tr› ‹/table›Type the above in your mywebpage.html within the body tags, save and refresh your browser. That's the table on the web. Referring to the above html codes, width refers to the width of the whole...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...
Dress Up Your Website With Fantastic CSS Tricks
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the different ways of implementing style sheets into your site and the basic layout of tags. Now, let's move on to some of the fun ways you can dress up your site with some standard CSS tags.Have you ever been to a website and saw text that appeared to have been highlighted with a yellow highlighter pen? Many sales-oriented sites use this technique to call attention to ad copy they want to stand out.The tag looks like this:< span style= "background-color:yellow" > Text Here < /span >Pretty simple, really. How about sites that remove the underlining from hyperlinks? Think it can't be done? Think again. Here's how to do it:< style type="text/css...
Build Text Only Websites - And Style Them!
The easiest way to an accessible website is to build a text only website. Correct?For many years the only 'accessible' part of a website was it's mirrored text-only version. Many developers thought simple text versions of their website were the only way to ensure visitors with screen readers (ergo with some form of disability) could access their website. Though it has to be said, some inexperienced developers could not even get a text only version right. The big problem was of course, now they had two sites with the same content - a nightmare to maintain, let us tell you!Usually the problem is that, for a start, the site was built in ugly HTML Tables, sometimes without important 'ALT' tags for...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...
Web Designer
In recent years, there has been a major upsurge in the use of Internet-related technology. An increase in the application of information technology in different fields has opened wider career opportunities. The number of people using the Internet to get information, buy products, book reservations or search for a job is constantly rising. Web designing as a profession is most benefited by this phenomenon.A Web designer is a professional who designs, creates, tests and maintains Web pages and Web sites. Web designers are sometimes just graphic artists, though most use the coding language html extensively. Web designers must be effective communicators with the ability to understand concepts and ideas...
Atlanta Web Design Companies
Doing business in a city like Atlanta will require using effective promotional tools like Internet marketing. However, picking out a company that will design your company's web site in a big metropolis like Atlanta can be very challenging because there are, literally, thousands of companies that offer web design services. Given this, you need to be able to employ a strategy that can help you decide on which company whose services you will patronize. This strategy should include looking for a company that can give you the most value for your money and the most extensive services with regard to your web site.Design and constructionCanvassing for a web design company will require you to talk to a...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...
Sales-Letter Webpage - Create Using 5 Simple and Easy Steps
As an internet newbie, I have always wondered how to create a Killer-Sales-Letter style web-page for my internet business, until I came across a Simple and Easy 5 Steps process, which I am going to share with you.Step 1 - HTML editor.One of the simplest ways to create a webpage is to use a HTML editor.The HTML editor is basically a software program that makes webpages for you.HTML editor works like a word processor, instead of creating a word document file, the HTML editor creates webpage files.If you do not have a HTML editor, I recommend an easy to use HTML editor, Mozilla.You can go to to download the software for free and install it on your computer.Once you have installed Mozilla browser, you...
Frequently Asked Web Design Questions
If you'd like to do business on the Internet, launching a quality web site is an absolute must. Learning how to design your own web site can be a little intimidating. However, there is a wealth of free information available on the Internet to assist you.The best way to learn is by doing. Take the first step and begin researching. Once you understand the basics of web design, you can begin experimenting with some more advanced coding techniques.A great place to start is HTML Goodies: the years, I have received many questions in regard to web design. Below, are some of the most frequently asked questions I receive on a regular basis:Question: I am in the process of designing my first web page and am...
What You Need to Know About CSS!
Style sheet is a progressive breakthrough for the advancement of web. Today, more and more browsers are implementing style sheets, opening authors' eyes to unique features that allow influence over presentation while preserving platform independence. The advantages of style sheets have become - apparent -- and the disadvantage of continually creating more HTML tags -- galore -- for presentation effects with the gradual development of CSS.Let's understand CSS in the right perspective.Style sheets in retrospectStyle sheets have been around in one form or another since the beginnings of HTML in the early 1990s .As the HTML language grew, however, it came to encompass a wider variety of stylistic...
Intro To The New Dreamweaver 8
On August 8 2005, Macromedia announced it's release of Macromedia Studio 8. This was an improvement of it's already popular MX2004 Version.I have been using the new Dreamweaver 8 for the last few weeks and have observed noticeable improvements that I will describe here.The first improvement that i noticed was the new top and side rulers. This is very helpful in lining up table and layers accurately.Also, If you like to work with the code, Dreamweaver has a new feature where you can compress a certain line of code and hide it on the left hand pane. This allows you to hide code that you are not working with, and open it up at anytime if you decide to play with it.One of the best new features is...
Maximize Your Search Engine Traffic - 13 Ways to Pull in More Visitors From the Search Engines
Maximizing traffic from the search engines to your web site is not a difficult task but it does require you to think ahead and plan your Search engine optimization strategy carefully. If you have not yet built your web site and are still in the initial planning stages then you may have an easier time of it. If you already have an existing web site, then you may need to take the time to read up on these SEO strategies and make some changes to incorporate them into your web site.I will discuss 13 ways in which you can improve on your existing web site or boost a brand new web site into the stratosphere of high rankings. These are NOT SEO tricks but rather tried, tested, ethical and true methods that...
Drupal Modules
There are plenty of Drupal Modules that you can install for your site as add-ons. What we liked best about Drupal modules is that it already comes pre-shipped with several modules. So a standard distribution contains several useful modules that you can simple point, click and enable.Some examples of such pre-shipped modules are: archive that displays a calendar to navigate old content, book which allows users to collaboratively author a book, forums for threaded discussions about general topics, paths that enable renaming URLs for search engines, polls to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions, and much more.You can also download many user contributed...
Website Optimization - A SEO Specialist Reveals All
Website optimization is the first step in promoting your website. Those with foresight and deeper pockets will have a SEO-savvy webmaster (such as myself) build the website that is optimized from the start. Otherwise, a website may need a SEO-facelift later to help it be digestible to the search engines - and to make it obvious to the search engines that the keywords you are trying to be found under are truly relevant to your website. Like any specialty, performing website optimization involves skills, special tools, and a willingness to keep up with current changes in the market.Unfortunately, hiring an SEO expert can be quite expensive. For those who want to do it themselves, here are the steps...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...
How to Effectively Market Your Web Design Business
With hundreds of web design businesses online, it is important to make yourself stand out. It doesn't matter if it means putting in a little extra effort or giving people samples of your work. No matter what you do, it is essential to effectively market your web design business. Without these tips, you may be lost in a sea of web designers.The first and foremost thing you should do is make your own web design site professional. After all, if you are a web designer, people are going to expect your own site to look amazing. It needs to be creative, innovative, and unlike anything they have ever seen before. If you create a simple and amateurish design, chances are they will quickly move onto the next...
Zadar, Croatia
The City of Zadar has beautiful and practical location. Zadar is an easily reached destination by land, sea and air. It is directly connected to the other bigger cities of the Republic of Croatia: Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Dubrovnik etc Good infrastructure is accompanied with extraordinary accommodation and contemporary service of numerous marinas.Whichever way you want to reach Zadar, the natural beauty of the landscape will touch you. Highway is brand new and magistral coastal road is just going through last days of serious repairs and improvements.The ferry port as well as the new tourist port for cruisers are located on the peninsula itself (old part of the city that used to be an island...
WYSIWYG Versus Coding: HTML With A Purpose
After years of working with entrepreneurs who developed their first web site using an image-based editor, the new world of internet marketing has placed a stronger emphasis on web development that conforms to technical concerns such as search engine optimization and multi-browser compatibility.Wigging OutWYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, pronounced "whizzy wig") web site editing programs can allow anyone to develop rich, full-feature web sites without a working knowledge of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). Many of these programs feature a "drag and drop" user interface, accomplishing eye-catching web site development in much the same way one might perform desktop publishing.However, many, if...
Designing Your Own Web Template Toolkit in 2 Minutes
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate web templates and to quickly write one to experience how template toolkits work at the most basic level. The goal is to help beginners understand the basic principles.What is a Web Template? The most common purpose of standard template toolkits is to separate presentation from logic. Presentation is usually referred to by markup languages like HTML, XHTML. Logic is the part handled by programming languages like PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.Standard Web Template Toolkits There are many open source web template toolkits available. For example, Perl: Template.pm module PHP: Smarty Python: Cheetah Ruby: Web::Template module The feature sets...
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects.Web Page: Style Sheet: Divide your page into sections - the div id tags allows you to create distinct divisions on your web page. They are identified with a unique id. You can then add a style (css selector) that specifically applies to the div of that id. Remember to include the DOCTYPE (to render your page accurately in the browsers) and meta tags...
Dress Up Your Website With Fantastic CSS Tricks
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the different ways of implementing style sheets into your site and the basic layout of tags. Now, let's move on to some of the fun ways you can dress up your site with some standard CSS tags.Have you ever been to a website and saw text that appeared to have been highlighted with a yellow highlighter pen? Many sales-oriented sites use this technique to call attention to ad copy they want to stand out.The tag looks like this:< span style= "background-color:yellow" > Text Here < /span >Pretty simple, really. How about sites that remove the underlining from hyperlinks? Think it can't be done? Think again. Here's how to do it:< style type="text/css...
Building Your Own Website Is Easy - A Tutorial
Building a simple website is easy, even for non-IT people. If you have the following basic requirements, then you can create your own website.Basic Requirements:Basic knowledge of HTML Computer set & Internet Connection Website Design Layout or Template Website Content Domain Name and Web Space or HostLet me explain to you each of the above requirements:Basic Knowledge of HTML:A website is composed of one or more web pages. A page layout is produced by using html codes or tags. HTML means Hyper-Text Markup Language and tags are enclosed by < and > signs. If you have zero knowledge of html, well here is the outline of a web page:Outline of a web page::<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1...
Top Ten Absolutely Free Websites for Downloading Cool Fonts
The following list of websites is the best compilation of sites on the web where you can download many different fonts totally free. Also, there are a variety of different types of fonts and styles you can download from the following sites so start searching today. Keep in mind that these sites are not listed in any particular order.#1 site because it ranks other font websites in order of popularity as well as having more than 1,000 different fonts to download for free. This website is certainly a great resource if you need a lot of fonts and don't want to pay for them!#2 is also a great website if you simply want to visit one site and download fonts without having to search multiple websites. At...
Integrating CSS and Restructured Text
Those who are not familiar restructured text may initially bemoan it's lack of power and flexibility when compared to XHTML, but as often the case in life, initial appearances can be deceiving.Although the use of CSS for styling and presentation is "best practice" in XHTML, it is not yet mandatory, which allows anyone with knowledge of such "deprecated" tags as "align=center" or "font", to illegally wreck havoc with your beautiful CMS-based site.Outside of a mandatory 2 month course in basic XHTML and CSS, one solution which desperate webmasters have often deployed is to force site editors and contributors to work with WYSIWYG editors configured to strip out any and all illegal tags. Not only is...
Tables Bad, CSS Good
Why do we (web developers) use tables??? Yes they make for fantastic designs and organized websites but they are not for this purpose. A table should be used for TABULAR DATA not design and layout. That being said, I have sworn off tables and replaced them with the almighty div tag and CSS.In the good old days you had no option but to use tables if you wanted to give an impressive presentation on your website. Along came CSS a designer's best friend. There is no web layout that you can create with a table that can not be duplicated with CSS."But using CSS to design my website is too complicated" I have heard this to many times in the span of my career. You can learn how to properly use CSS in less...
More Makeup Tips According To The Seasons - Advanced
This is a continuation of the article "Makeup Tips According To The Seasons". Although this can be read separately, it is best to read the previous article first before reading this one.Here are some tips on how to put on eye shadows. Apply first to the under brow a highlighter color like a light neutral color. Apply from the brow to the lid. Examples of highlighter colors to be used on the under brow were pale taupe or gray. Next, apply a second color to the orbital bone like a dark or medium neutral. These colors can be brought halfway to the lid. Examples of colors to be used on the orbital bone were smoked plum, gray, or smoked navy.Apply a third color to the lid. These colors could be...
The WWW Of Affiliate Marketing
Introduction:I was just studing a E-course about the amazing concept of Affiliate Marketing and decided I needed to get this info out to as many people as possible.We will take a short look at these three topics, the Who - What - Why, of Affiliate Marketing in reverse order.The Why of Affiliate Marketing:Whether it is extra income or full time income, one of the main reasons why, of course, is to make money. A second reason would be to try out different niche markets and some marketing ideas you may have for those niche markets.The What of Affiliate Marketing:For some of you affiliate marketing is a mystery or at least a not completely understood concept. Let me explain it to you with a story...
A Dozen Techniques to Improve Your Software Online Help
There are several main reasons why putting your software manual on-line is necessary. It makes your web-site attractive for search engine crawlers and therefore brings you targeted traffic from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engines. A good online manual makes your product serious and credible. Moreover, if a user faces difficulty using your software and asks for technical support, you may easily resolve the issue by referring that user to a certain page of your online help. Simply give the page's URL. With just one click the user will see screenshots and explanations which will help them to settle the case. Many software vendors, from large companies to independent...
Website Templates - Thousands Saved On Web Design Fees
Most of the top end sites offer a huge selection of very impressive, easy-to-edit website templates. After ordering the template, its just a matter of checking your email containing the link to download the zip file. The template in the zip file is in psd format. The html in these templates is compatible with Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage.Once the template is downloaded, the only editing required is adding the company name, text and pictures. The major advantage is the price, they run anywhere from $20 to $70. Another great advantage is not having to hire a web designer, who usually takes 1 to 2 weeks to produce a page of such high quality. Webmasters, either...
Discover How To Make Your Web Design Easier
Whenever I thought of web design my face would frown, I just hated the fact that I had to do any kind of web design. I just couldn't see why web design was simple for others and not for me.Well, that all changed when I discovered this simple program, a web design machine made for those who just don't understand that you can do it yourself if, you would only keep your web design as simple as possible.Since using this program I have been able to launch two websites with my own web design style within two months, these websites aren't perfect, but they do look very professional.And, they carry my touch, yes, at last I can boost to my friends how easy web design is for me, because they have no clue that...
XHTML- Kicking and Screaming into the Future
XHTML, the standard, was first released back in 2000. Roughly five years later we begin to see major websites revised to use this standard. Even the favorite whipping boy of standards-compliance punditry, Microsoft, presents their primary homepages, and in XHTML. Standards compliant XHTML sites are still the minority. The reason is simple. When the W3C released the new standard, the rest of the web running on HTML did not cease to function. Nor will the rest of the web, written in various flavors of HTML, cease to function any time soon. Without any pressing need to conform to the new standard, designers continue to use old, familiar methods. These methods will perform in any modern browser, so why...
Easy CSS for Maximising AdSense Earnings
AdSense publishers know, above all, that if website visitors can't see their ads then they can't click on them either. When it comes to placing AdSense ad blocks or link units, there are an infinite number of variations possible, but did you know that some have been proven to be more effective at converting the visitor into a clicker?Being able to convert more clickers ultimately means greater earnings from the same amount of traffic. Extensive tests have proven that certain areas of a webpage receive more viewing time than others. It can be shown that with all else being equal, the likelihood of a click conversion is proportional to the amount of exposure to a particular ad block. So it makes...
A Content Management System or Static Website?
Each website is built for a different purpose, which could be to sell a business' products online, or simply as a brochure to show potential customers what a business does, and then to attract them to contacting the business for more information.This article aims to describe the differences between a static website and a content managed website using a content management system by describing the benefits and disadvantages to SME's (small and medium sized enterprises.)We hope that this article helps both business users, and other website design firms to understand more the difference between these two types of website.A STATIC WEBSITEA static website is a website that is designed, created...
The Benefits of Open Source
If you are a building a website or a forum, chances are you are using a web editor or paying for message board services. The costs of using these "out of the box" products can add up, especially if you are trying to grow your business. Let's look at some good "open source" options for you to consider. You may be surprised at how much money open source can save you.What is open source? The webopedia describes it as follows: Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve...
Cascading Style Sheets for Better Web Design
In cascading style sheets you can specify how your web pages will be presented on the screen by simply predefining page elements such as fonts, headers and links.You can add these predefined elements in the head-section of your pages, but more interesting is to use them in a single .css file and include that file in every page on your site.All you have to do is include in your HTML header. (the path in the href must point to the place where your .css file is stored)There are two main benefits to using css sheets in a separate file:1. more flexibility; only one (1) file to update2. less HTML coding and easy replacement of deprecated HTML. I'll explain more of this below.First, let me tell you I am...