I’ve seen a lot of website reviews from students, and professionals. A lot of people will only look at how a website looks. (Is it pretty?) They forget to consider how easy a site is to use, how long it takes to load, etc. So I created a video that looks at what it takes…
CSS provides an easy way to change the way a website looks from the browser defaults. This is sometimes referred to as the presentation of the website, or the presentation layer. This means that CSS allows for a lot of flexibility in how it is applied to the website, and in controlling how the website…
Links are key to making the web work, by interconnecting pages from one section to another. Link Format A link in an HTML document uses an anchor tag, and follows the basic form [link text] That is, a link tag is <a>. It have a required attribute, href, which is a hyperlink reference to a…
What is CSS CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is used to control the presentation of the website, basically how the website looks. Why do we use CSS If you are using Firefox, Go to View > Page Style > then click on No Style. See what your favorite websites look like without any…
File Types There are a several different types of image file formats you can use on the web. Here are the three most common with some important facts about each of them. Each has their place in the web, and if you know when to use them, you will be better off. gif Graphics Interchange…
Assuming you have started Dreamweaver, and have a site defined… Now we will look at creating a document, and adding text and images. Creating a new Document Of course one of the things that you will have to do – is to create a brand new web page. Use the Dreamweaver “Start Page” CTRL-N File>New…
Now we need to look at how we can setup and organize our website within Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver gives us the ability to organize websites into a Site. This allows us to maintain and organize our files. To set it up, it ask us to identify several settings. The Local Root Folder Dreamweaver requires you to…
In some cases, PNG graphics can be a lot smaller than other graphic types, especially if you have solid colors. However, if you do a Save As in Photoshop, you will find yourself creating large, unoptimized PNG graphics. Watch this tutorial to see how to optimize your PNG graphic, using Save for Web, to make…
