It wasn’t too long ago that if you were wanting a special font on the web, you would have to save out your text as an image, and insert the image. Unfortunately, this usually meant your page would take a long time to load, and it wasn’t search engine friendly. Luckily, in the past few…
This will put together all of your previous examples and information such as adding links, adding images, controlling text, etc. Think of this as putting a puzzle together. This is a step by step guide to build and layout your website. Pre-Production Phase This has already been done to some degree for your first web…
I’ll admit, one of the parts of web deign, that is the hardest for me, is writing a good headline. I have to work hard at it to get a good headline. However, I good headline can make your website. Good page titles can help by: Increasing page traffic, Improving SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and…
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…
Lorelle VanFossen is one of my favorite WordPress authors. Today he talks about What is a Properly Formed Link? Lots of web writers will just get lazy, and post the address, instead of a good clear link to the other page, especially if it is on another site. This isn’t clear to the reader, doesn’t help…
