Adding a touch of styleThe following is an excerpt from www.w3.org and the author Dave Raggett, 8th April 2002.
This is a short guide to styling your Web pages. It will show you how to use W3C’s Cascading Style Sheets language (CSS) as well as alternatives using HTML itself. The route will steer you clear of most of the problems caused by differences between different brands and versions of browsers.
For style sheets to work, it is important that your markup be free of errors. A convenient way to automatically fix markup errors is to use the HTML Tidy utility. This also tidies the markup making it easier to read and easier to edit. I recommend you regularly run Tidy over any markup you are editing. Tidy is very effective at cleaning up markup created by authoring tools with sloppy habits.
A common assumption among beginners and even more advanced webmasters is to try to fit and cram as much content into one page as possible. Yes gadgets and widgets or cool, but you have to limit them from clogging up your pages and drawing attention away from visitors. Don’t get us wrong though, you do need these things to spice up your site, just don’t get carried away.
Continue reading “Basic Site Design: Part 2 – Less is More (Avoiding Clutter)” »
Before you even think about the design of your website, you should consider the most important element to any website; its visitors. Your site should appeal to the people who are using it, and should compliment and hold the content in a way that makes sense.
Continue reading “Basic Site Design: Part 1 – Knowing Your Audience” »
Built on Simply Works Core
Powered by WordPress
Copyright © BeginnerWebs.com
Tips for Beginners and Experts…