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Web Design Some Quick Tips To Get Started
Web Design Some Quick Tips To Get StartedWeb design can be quite a daunting prospect if you are new to the Internet. You would like to create your own site but have no idea where to start. Html? Photoshop? Fireworks? FrontPage? Dreamweaver?This article/tutorial will give you some tips and hints on how to get started with web design - and which shortcuts to take!Tip 1: Learn HTMLI can hear you groan. I said I was going to give you some shortcuts, now I suggest you learn HTML! Unfortunately there ...
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Bandwidth... When Is It Enough?
If you have a website, one of the most important things you need to know about is bandwidth. You don't know what that is, you say? Okay, here we go.Basically, bandwidth is the amount of data you can transfer at one time. When you have less bandwidth, your site takes longer to load regardless of what connection your visitors have.With more visitors, each visitor is going to have to wait his or her turn if you don't have enough bandwidth to accommodate everyone.If you can lower the amount of data ...
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Some basic tests to check your website for accessibility
The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be
made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that
your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you
can make to address some of the main issues. The following list
includes guidelines that provide a good start in increasing
accessibility to disabled people:
1. Check informational images for alternative text Place the
cursor over an informational image, for example, the
organisation logo. Does a yellow box ...
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The Ups And Downs Of Using CSS
When it comes to web designs and creating web layouts, CSS has been considered by many as one of the most widely used form of language for web development. This is because of its several advantages compared to the use of tables. Advantages CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. According to several Web ...
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Seven CSS Layout Tips
The most difficult thing in CSS to get right is the layout of your site. Here are a couple of tips dealing just with that. Some of these tips are not exactly new, or rocket science, but hopefully they will save someone a bit of bother somewhere!Tip 1: Clear out the default padding and margin settings before you start working. Different browsers have different default margin and padding sizes so you want to start with a clean slate, so to speak. Use this command:*{Margin: 0;Padding: 0;Border: ...
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Where Can I Find Good Web Design Advice?
Learning web design can be quite confusing as there is such a myriad of different tutorials and learning hubs on the net.
Many of the top web designers have learned their trade not through formal education and degree courses, but because they are autodidacts, that is, they are self-taught.
Even at this stage in the 21st century, universities and higher education facilities are not geared up to teaching the new media, so those wanting to learn the necessary skills have had to find their own ...
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Embracing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Makes Good Sense
Why do I like Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) and what makes CSS so great. The answer only makes sense if you know what CSS is. The Holy Grail of CSS is to separate the content of a web page from the instructions that control what it looks like. This makes it much easier for various devices to display the web page correctly. The same page would display correctly on all standard web browsers (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Netscape, etc.), and devices used by persons with a handicap, cell ...
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Cascading style sheets Why Use Modern Design Techniques?
This article aims to demonstrate the advantages in learning modern web design techniques, focusing on CSS. We'll learn what CSS is, explore the business factors in building websites in a modern way and find out how much easier and beneficial it is to design using CSS. What this article isn't is a guide on how to make websites with CSS. So what is CSS? CSS (Cascading style sheets) in very basic terms is a way to style elements of your website. It is purely a presentation tool. Despite many ...
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How to build better websites faster using Dreamweaver extensions
People using Adobe's Dreamweaver for building websites, will be happy to find out that there is now a new Directory listing most existing extensions for this popular software. DreamweaverExtensions.org lists hundreds of extensions by a total of 64 different authors, and includes free extensions as well as commercial ones. DreamweaverExtensions.org offers the possibility to rate and review each extension. Authors are invited to submit their extensions, or to edit existing listings. All ...
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Benefits of making your website accessible to disabled users -
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers
must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is
regarded as a service and therefore comes under this law.
Some organisations are changing to their websites, but many are
seemingly not making the adjustments. Disabled people don't
access their website, they say, so why should they care?
There are, however, two very good reasons as to why businesses
should start taking these issues seriously:
1.An accessible website will ...
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