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Basic Web Design Tips
When designing web pages, you need to think visually. A web site designed with a good balance of graphics and text is pleasing to the eye, attracts viewer attention, and holds it. Good web design relies [more…]
Web Design Tips for Graphics
Graphics are a huge part of web design. Knowing and using the standards and formats for different types of web graphics can mean the difference between a web page that catches attention and one that browsers [more…]
Web Design Tips for Presenting Information
As you design web pages, think graphically even when all you're presenting is pure information. Good web page design means you present information by organizing it logically and making it visually attractive [more…]
Web Design Tips for Navigation Tools
In web design, consider the visuals when you include the navigation tools that take visitors from page to page. When designing web page navigation tools, you need to make them attractive as well as functional [more…]
How to Place Marketing Videos on Your Home Page
Many people still feel that posting marketing videos on a company website’s home page is a radical strategy. After all, home page real estate is extremely scarce and valuable. Even if you have plenty of [more…]
How to Effectively Position Marketing Videos on a Webpage
Marketing videos can add value to almost any part of a website. Think of video as a different type of content, much like text or pictures. The right mix of these content types makes a website attractive [more…]
How to Select an Appropriate Marketing Video Hosting Service
If you decide to use a professional video hosting service for your marketing videos, you first need to find one that fits your needs. Dozens of services are out there with different feature sets and price [more…]
Video on Your Website: How to Place an Embed Code
All hosting services provide embed codes that let you insert your marketing videos into your web pages. An embed code is simply a small piece of computer code that activates the video player and displays [more…]
Design and Technical Challenges for Mobile Website Content
The issue of mobile accessibility emerges in every realm of creating a website, affecting the size and type of images you embed, the color scheme you apply to your site, and what kind of navigational structure [more…]
How to Build a Basic HTML Page
Having taken a brief look at the options for creating web pages from popular applications (like word processors or graphics programs), let’s turn to the most powerful, flexible, and useful way to build [more…]
The Challenges for Designing Websites for Mobile Content
Having mobile-friendly sites remains the goal of websites with a lot of resources to develop alternate content and presentations for mobile visitors. You might not have those resources, so here are essentially [more…]
Tools for Creating HTML when Building Websites
Before you start coding HTML, consider the options in terms of a coding environment. There is a wide spectrum of tools, ranging from the free text editor that came with your operating system [more…]
How to Save Microsoft Word Files as Web Pages
Here’s how to save any open file in Microsoft Word (2008 or newer) as a web page. Start by opening the Save As dialog box, with its default web settings. [more…]
Define Titles and Links in HTML Page Head Element
Within the HTML element in a page you are building for your website, there are two main, defining elements. The visible content of the page is enclosed in the [more…]
Why Use HTML5 to Build Web Pages?
HTML5, the current (albeit still-changing) version of HTML is actually more widely supported, including in older browsers (such as Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8), than its predecessors. [more…]
How to Code Paragraphs for HTML Web Pages
When you’re building pages in HTML5, you will use familiar paragraph container tags. The container tags for paragraphs are <p> and </p>, and you use them to separate text into paragraphs. Each paragraph [more…]
How to Define Lists in HTML Web Pages
Headings and paragraphs aren’t always enough. Sometimes you need lists on your pages, too. When deciding how to present your data, consider your options. If the text fits into short bullets, present it [more…]
Vertical Spacing in HTML
When working on coding page content in HTML for your web pages, many of you might ask: “How do I get rid of that (vertical) spacing?” between paragraphs. Or, “How do I add [more…]
How to Name HTML Files
You can’t open your code in a browser until you save it with a filename extension of .html (or .htm). Remember that page titles display in a browser title bar or tab bar. Titles are really how your page [more…]
Key HTML5 Page Structure Elements
HTML5 provides a whole new way to structure page content. The impact of this aspect of HTML5 is less dramatic, at least on the user end. The biggest impact of new HTML5 page structuring tags is on designers [more…]
How to Integrate Traditional HTML Tags with HTML5
Overwhelmingly, new HTML5 elements expand the scope and range of HTML. That is, they don’t replace older tags (for the most part). So, for example, the legacy HTML six heading tags, the paragraph tag, [more…]
How to Define HTML Headers and Create Footers
The HTML5 header element is typically the first element after the beginning of the body element in an HTML5 web page. A footer element is placed at the end of an HTML5 page. It holds “end of page” stuff [more…]
Define Articles, Sections, and Asides in HTML5 Pages
Perhaps the most significant content structuring element in HTML5 is the article tag. Devotees of headers, footers, and even the relatively obscure time [more…]
How Modern Websites Use CSS
External style sheets are files outside of (but linked to) HTML pages that supply style and layout to web pages. Cascading style sheets are one example of external style sheets. The following are reasons [more…]
Basic HTML5 Metadata Tags
In addition to page structuring elements like headers, footers, articles, sections, and asides, other HTML5 tags are available to enhance SEO yet play a somewhat different role. These HTML5 tags, such [more…]
