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Content Articles, Keywords, & Web Design

2008-07-17T09:00:00.001+07:00

Content Articles, Keywords, and Web Page Design

by Candice Pardue

You've probably heard all the hype about content articles and how you can use them to improve search engine ranking and get more traffic. There's only one problem... content articles will be of no benefit to you without proper keywording and web page design. Let's take a look at how all three areas - content articles, keywords, and design - can work together to explode your Web promotions.

Content Article Layout

When adding a content article to your website, be sure it is formatted correctly. The paragraphs should have a double return space in between so they won't run together. If the entire content article looks like one BIG connected paragraph, the reader is likely to skip it. This makes the article very difficult to read, and your readers are probably in a hurry when they arrive at your site.

Break up the content article into multiple short sections using sub-headings. Also, use the "Heading 1" tag for your main title. Use "Heading 2" tags for your sub-headings. Search engines often look for these tags to determine the main theme of a website and to seek out important keywords on a web page.

** Recap: Be sure there are double returns between paragraphs and make headings stand out with bold print and with the "Heading" tags.

Formatting Your Content Article for Google Adsense, MSN Ads, or Yahoo! Ads

Content articles with contextual ads such as Google Adsense will likely not be the prettiest in design if you're going to earn money with Google Ads. These ads usually work best formatted within the article reading - not along the sides of your web page. Don't fret - just put the ads where they will get clicks! But be sure your content articles are still readable using the tips above.

Keywording for Content Articles

Keywording is another tricky area. Be sure to include targeted keywords throughout your content article, but not too much. You'll want the article to make sense and stay within good grammar rules while also attracting search engine traffic for that particular keyword. Also include related keywords within the article to give your page even more relevance and clarity in the search engines.

Keywords should be chosen carefully. Be as specific as possible. General keywords are usually difficult to achieve a top position because so many other websites have them. Use specific keyword phrases in your article title and throughout your content article.

**Examples: - Use "website content writing" instead of "writing" - Use "bathroom home decor" instead of "home decor" - Use "insurance premium quotes" instead of "insurance" - Use "biking with the kids" instead of "biking"

Web Page Design for Content Articles

Your content article is the "meat" of your page, but the design plays a great role in how readers will perceive your article. Avoid lots of graphics, photos, videos, etc. on a web content page unless you are using these design features to complement the article. These items can distract your readers if you're not careful. Also, begin your content article below the logo. People generally look at logos, banners, or graphics, and will start reading below these images.

Avoid fancy stuff such as Flash animations where your reader is required to download something before they can read the article. Many will just click out and forget about you! If your website is designed in Flash, be sure you create some HTML versions of your content pages to make it easier for readers and search engines to find your articles.

Keywords in Your Design

Your main keywords for a particular content article should be sprinkled throughout your web page design. Use the keywords in the "Alt Text" of images or logos, within your linking text, and other areas of your design when possible. This enhances your chances at a good search engine position. Also, be sure to include them in your HTML Meta Tags when possible.

Content articles should be easy to read for your visitors, keyword-rich, and creative in design without distracting the reader. Keep these tips in mind while designing your content pages.

About the Author

Candice Pardue is a content writer providing informative articles to Web companies for SEO purposes. She owns and operates SelectWriters.com.... http://www.selectwriters.com/

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Seo Security

2008-07-17T08:00:00.000+07:00

Seo Security

by Henry Guinan

Whether the tools of script kiddies or more advanced hackers; a breach in security can result in a website being flagged as badware by Google. This wouldn't affect a mom and pop personal website to a major degree but would surely carry a negative view for a site which purports to be somewhat professional in nature.

Supposing one was to sell hosting, scripts themselves or security even; then it would look particularly bad for a customer or client to stumble upon a search engine result page which won't bring them to their site but rather to a page which suggests that they should pick another result........Disaster!

Of course in real terms, its not a disaster but perception can be everything.

Following are some guidelines which may be helpful.

If you don't already have a Google webmaster account, then sign up. Ensure too that your account email address is kept functional rather than forgotten.
If using a content management system for publishing, ensure also that heed is paid to the security aspects associated with that particular cms. Its not enough to publish and forget!
As a matter of good practice, be sure to chmod files and directories with as tight permissions as possible without upsetting the functionality of the site.
Passwords can be a pain, but are so called, for a reason. Make these difficult to crack.
Sometimes, it can be enough to view the source code of a webpage, to find hidden and malicious code. Seeing iframes where they don't belong is a give away.
Patrol files on your server to see if anything is there which shouldn't be there. Remove such files once you determine that you or your host are not the instigators. Sometimes, new files are created to quickly help a hacker to quickly find re-entry information such as database names and passwords.
While it is good practice to become familiar with all files and directories of a given cms, some will not be competent to this level. If this is the case, then the total clearance or deletion of all server files and folders may be the quickest option. Once done, known and safe backup copies can be quickly uploaded. Likewise for the database, where undesirable code may be inserted.
While one might feel popular by having hundreds or thousands of users; not everyone is your friend. Limit the ways which your users can manipulate your database, usually by limiting their webform input. If you don't know how, then ask someone trustworthy.
Get the latest possible update to your software. As well as increased functionality, updates are for plugging security vulnerabilities as they arise.
A reliable host is a great line of defense as well, as some of the better ones will monitor activity on their servers and can spot nastiness. Most of the time though, responsibility is yours. In the western world at least, there are choices of where to shop and set up your stall.
Finally, Google does not appear to punish publishers harshly and tend to help actually. For an established domain, they seem to have a good idea that such hacks are not the intention of good people. If hacked, join the forum at stopbadware.org where these great volunteers may help you to clean out your cupboard.

One thing for sure is that it is difficult enough to get into the serps in the first place. When that is done, you don't want anyone to find a page which might suggest that your site and all indexed pages of it; are not exactly fit for public consumption. Worse again, would be complaints to you that the innocent surfer suffered personal computer damage and associated malware, by simply visiting your website. What good then, is an S.E.O.?

Henry Guinan contributes to open source projects and is at Seo Ireland and other seo security information can be viewed through the link.

About the Author

Henry Guinan contributes to various open source projects

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Search Engine Optimization Tips

2008-07-17T01:20:00.000+07:00

Best SEO Tools

What are the best ways to boost your position in search engines? What keywords should you use on your web-pages? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank? We deliver answers. Here is the list of the most useful SEO-tools you might be willing to use, developing and optimizing your next web-site.

1. We Build Web Pages: This tool allows you to compare your site against the top 10 listed sites in Google for a particular keyword or phrase. You simply enter your keyword and the system will begin comparing 9 different metrics for the top 10 rankings. This allows you to quickly compare the Yahoo rank, MSN rank, Google pages indexed, altavista pages indexed, backlinks to page, backlinks to domain, all in anchor rank, age of url, and whether or not the phrase is on the page. Check out the rest of their SEO tools here.

2. Zippy: Zippy is a new meta search engine that queries other major engines and returns results in a format most suited for Webmasters and SEOs. The site was launched in September by the seasoned SEO Dave Naylor, and provides some valuable tools for site optimization.

3.URL Trends: UrlTrends allows you to see at a glance any of the information that you want to see about all of the selected urls. Whether you only want to see the PageRank of the Urls, or everything they monitor, you can now do so very easily.

4.NUAH: Super cool site. Crawls your entire site, see how many pages you have, their respective PageRanks, keywords and descriptions. Also has good sitemap generators for both Yahoo! and Google.

* Google Sitemap Generator: Create a valid Google Sitemap with no programming experience needed. Why should you install and configure a confusing python script when you can have Nuah.com to crawl your website and build a valid sitemap.gz file?

* Google PageRank Crawler: Easily get a big picture view of your Google PageRank for your entire website.

* Yahoo Sitemap Generator: Create a valid Yahoo Sitemap with no programming experience needed.

* Link Check Crawler: Let's face it links can expire, because invalid/expired links can effect both your search engine position and reputation we recommend you validate the integrity of your links with our Free Link Validation Tool.

5.Widexl: I love this tool. I mostly use the Meta Tag Analyzer and the Link Popularity tools but each of their tools is powerful and useful. Widexl is a web developers best friend. They offer the following free hosted tools to assist in SEO:

* Link Popularity - How popular are you on the internet?

* Search Engine Saturation How many pages do you have indexed?

* Meta Tag Analyzer - Analyze the Meta Tags from your website

* Password Generator - Password Generator for Basic and Digest authentication

* Geo Tracker - Locate country by IP address or domain name

6. Ezer: Need to check your Page Rank across all the data centers? This is a very handy tool. You can even get an idea of whe they are about to update PR with this tool.

7.Firefox SEO extension: When Aaron Wall of SEOBook says something is cool, we take note. I have been using this very cool SEO extension for Firefox (my favorite browser) for quite some time now and love it. I can click on the tool to display meta tags for any site I visit without having to switch to code view and scroll all over creation for them. It does much more than just that but that is one of my favorite features.

Credit : http://free-seo-advice.blogspot.com/

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SEO Tactics for Better Ranking

2008-07-17T01:10:00.000+07:00

SEO Tactics for Better Ranking

by Mr.John Brown

What is the basis of search engine optimization? The answer is - keyword density and selection. It is impossible to form SEO tactics without the appropriate keywords/phrases. SEO copywriting is not possible in the absence of keywords. The importance of accurate keywords/phrases cannot be ruled by even the top most search engine optimizers. You might think there should be some success formula to create the magic, but there is no such formula.

Copywriting, coding and linking are the three most essential factors of SEO. Their proper usage determines the outcome of the optimization process. Usually copywriting comprises one third portion of the entire procedure.

The websites that are slotted in the first page of any search engine results as a result of entering in a key phrase doesnâ€™t have a similar keyword density that you had typed. If there was any formula for setting keyword density, then every site would have similar keyword saturation intensities.

Apart from identifying the target key phrase/words, the next step is to decide upon the positioning of these key phrases in the web content. They require specialized formatting and are sometimes highlighted online. There are certain basic guidelines that if followed, might yield positive outcomes. The key phrases, if possible, should be included in headlines and sub-headlines, provided it makes sense.

Following the keyword density strictly, despite it not making relevant sense, is not a brilliant idea. Using a key phrase once or twice in a paragraph is okay. On the whole, the web page should look interesting and attractive

Use natural language which is easier to understand, and create interest in the minds of the target site visitors. Sometimes your site may rank in the topmost position, but what is the point if your content is awful to read, and causes the reader to go to another site result? Keywords/phrases usage shouldnâ€™t look funny and senseless. As sugar dissolves in milk, the key phrases should adjust and blend into the web content. Currently every small or big firm is willing to outsource their projects to SEO Company India.

SEO outsourcing servicefrom India yields better quality and offers tremendous monetary benefits. The IT workforce in India is far cheaper and has a good hold on the English language. Their work is often at the level of international quality standards. The World Wide Web is a highly competitive field, therefore it is always advisable to hire a professional SEO firm to target the right keywords and set their appropriate density. Now-a-days outsourcing to SEO companies in India has become a highly cost effective and lucrative option. But remember to always consider the past work assignments of the outsourcing company before finalizing the deal. Copyright Â© 2008

About the Author

Best Web Outsourcing is a leading SEO Company India offering SEO outsourcing Services, Internet Marketing Services. Hire a SEO from Professional SEO Consultant India.

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10 SEO Tips To Boost....

2008-07-17T01:00:00.000+07:00

10 SEO Tips To Boost Your Organic Ranking

by OrganicWithSEO

Search engine optimisation is a term the experts use when they adjust different elements of your website to make it easier for the search engine spiders to find you, to improve the relative ranking of your website compared to other websites and as a result to boost the number of customers visiting your website.

Your organic ranking is your natural ranking on search engines. The higher you appear on search engine listings , the more people will visit your website.

While there are many hundreds of factors search engine optimisation (SEO) companies' work with, here are the top 10 tips to boost your organic ranking.

1. Clean navigation.

Some of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) are clear navigation paths throughout your website. This serves two purposes:- you want your customers to be able to find what they are looking for using as few clicks as possible and you also want search engine spiders to be able to find their way to all of your pages. By making sure your website is easy and logical to navigate around, you will make it easier for search engines to find you (and all of your sub-pages).

2. Clear internal page links.

Unless each page is cleanly and logically linked to other pages within your website, you will reduce your rankings. If a page is not linked to any other page, generally the search engines will not be able to find it, index it and rank it. You also need to consider adding and submitting a site map to the major search engines to assist them index all of your pages.

3. High quality inbound links.

Links to your website from high quality (higher ranking) websites that are directly relevant to your site content is a great strategy to boost your rankings. Links from government and education sites are particularly useful strategies to boost your organic rankings when they are relevant to your content.

4. One theme.

Search engines try to determine what your website is about in order to rank it and to know for which search terms to show your website in the results. One way they do this is to work out what is the overall theme or topic of your website. You will get the best organic results if you have one clear overall theme or topic for your website rather than trying to cram in lots of totally different parts of your business under the one website banner.

5. One theme per page.

Each website page stands alone. The best rankings come from dedicating individual pages to a specific theme. For example: large fitting wedding shoes rather than just wedding accessories.

6. Use words instead of graphics of words.

If you are using a word as a heading or sub heading on your page, the temptation is to make it look beautiful by making it a graphic jpg or gif. This is costing you rankings. Search engines read words and not images. If your word is an image it will be invisible to the search engine. You also need to ensure any pictures you use in your website have ALT tags present to ensure people with visual disabilities can also read your website. These ALT tags can be read by the search engine spiders.

7. Headlines.

Following on from the previous point, at the top of the page you need to have a clear headline that describes the content of that page in a Heading tag. This headline needs to be keyword rich and located at the right place on the page for maximum results.

8. Keywords are critical.

Keywords are the words people type into a search engine to find you. You need to know the most common keywords people use to find sites such as yours and make sure these keywords are reflected in your web copy. Determining the correct keywords is an art form as well as a science.

9. Copy is king.

The words you use on your page are critical for search engine success. You need to ensure your keywords are naturally scattered throughout your page rather than artificially added to the end of sentences or standing alone in your text. You need to walk a fine balance between interesting and enticing copy for your reader and optimised copy for the search engines.

10. Don't double up.
It is important to have fresh and different content on each page of your website. If you double up on the information you will cost yourself rankings.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) does not have to be difficult, it just needs to be worked at on a regular basis for maximum results.

About the Author

Organicwith SEO is a Brisbane Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company that specialises in boosting organic search engine rankings. Our low cost OrganicwithSEO site evaluation gives you a detailed report on areas such as keyword analysis, competition research, link mapping and SEO strategies.Visit www.organicwithseo.com

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How To Learn Dreamweaver

2008-07-16T09:00:00.006+07:00

How To Learn Dreamweaver

by Mark Kostner

Have you seen a really well designed website and thought that you would like to do the same? Well, now you can with the use of the ever-popular Dreamweaver. Learning how to use Dreamweaver can really help to save a lot of time when writing lots of codes in an html editor.

So what exactly is Dreamweaver? Basically, it is a powerful website development piece of software that is easy to use and it can really help you to build impressive websites. With its extensive libraries and templates, even a complete beginner can easily make a website. However, if you are one of the more advanced web designers and coders, Dreamweaver can also be used to develop database driven websites and to develop server side websites that give a lot more functionality to the user.

Dreamweaver's interface has been designed to make it easier to build both simple and complex websites by using a point and click method that helps to simplify most tasks.

The Benefits of Using Dreamweaver

The benefits of using Dreamweaver over plain html coding from scratch are endless. Dreamweaver creates a lot of the code for the user already, which makes it incredibly useful for those who have no idea what they are doing and, for the people who do know how to code html, they can always add it to the written code a lot easier.

You can switch between code view and the design view and you can even have both in the same window to keep tabs on any changes that you have made. Also, when you save your site, you can view your page in a web browser just to see what it would look like on the internet. For this you do not have to be on the internet to view it, as you can view it without your computer being online.

If you do edit any code, there are tools on Dreamweaver that help to correct any mistakes in the syntax. There are so many great features in Dreamweaver that you would not get in ordinary html editors.

Another great feature in Dreamweaver is the layout tool. You can use this to get an idea of where you put your navigation, menus, pictures, etc.

Where to Go In Order To Learn Dreamweaver

If you are interested in learning Dreamweaver, a great place to start is in google. Do a search for Dreamweaver Tutorial or Dreamweaver Video Tutorial you'll find a whole range of top quality Dreamweaver Tutorials. This will help people who are starting from scratch to feel confident in making great looking websites and it can also help more advanced users to pick up new skills or refresh existing skills.

Overall, Dreamweaver is worth learning if you are serious about web design, so why not start today and show the world just how good your website can be.

About the Author

Visit www.DreamweaverMadeSimple.com for your free 14 part dreamweaver mini course.

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Top 10 Ways to Peeve....

2008-07-16T09:00:00.005+07:00

Top 10 Ways to Peeve Your Website Visitors

by Charles Lamm

How did peeves become pets? Don't know. Don't really care. But all of us have our pet peeves when it comes to surfing the net for information.

Here are the top 10 according to many surveys

1. Pop Ups

Pop ups come in many flavors: entry pop ups, exit pop ups, delayed, small, large, multiple, Flyin, scrolling, always on top, browser stopping, surf interrupting, must be cleared to move on, viagra, and the ever popular porn.

Except for an occasional squeeze page to get a free ebook or report, web surfers HATE pop ups.

So why do they continue to litter the Internet landscape? Simple. They work.

2. Extra Software Needed to View Site

Don't blame Canada. Blame Adobe.

Adobe made the Acrobat reader a must for viewing PDF files mainly because:

- It solved a need. Every page now printed out the same regardless of which printer or operating system was being used. It could even be made interactive for form completion.

- Adobe gave away millions of the free readers before publishers adopted the new PDF format as a standard for ebooks.

Acrobat users now demand PDF files in most instances where ebooks used to have various formats including "exe". Hackers have made downloading exe files from unknown sources an unsafe activity.

As standard as Acrobat now is, the same is not true for Flash, Shockwave, Deja Vu, and a host of other add-ons with various degrees of support.

I don't need to sit through a 2 meg Flash intro when what I want is information. Apparently, many others agree. You can add Flashblock to your FireFox browser and decide for yourself when to allow the Flash to load.

3. Dead Dead Dead Links

Nothing hacks me off faster than finding a spot on anchor text link that goes nowhere.

It's like having you mouth water over a menu special only to have the kitchen say they have run out.

4. Registration Required to Visit Site

Some sites think their bytes don't stink. They think you should register and login to see anything beyond the home page.

What they are doing is asking me to get married before the first date.

What's in it for me?

In this Internet day and age, a company and site has to build trust before a random visitor is going to cough up a name and email address.

Show me a little leg first.

5. Slowwww Pages

If I have to wait more than 4 or 5 seconds to begin viewing your site, I am gone - never to return.

If your servers are slow, find a new ISP.

If you loaded your pages with Flash, MIDI, audio, video, or other files that load with the page, dump them. Put up links instead. Let the visitor choose if they want to read or watch the video.

6. Outdated Content

One huge advantage of the web is the ability of bloggers and other Drudge wannabes to bypass traditional media and post news online instantly.

If you have not updated your website in 14 months, what does that tell me about your company. Certainly, you are less than a cutting edge solution for my problem.

7. Bad Navigation

Web designers prefer dazzle over function. Function is boring. Who wants a simple text link when a pop up Javascript navigation bar impresses the client?

I do.

So do the search engines.

Every web page needs recognizable, underlined text links on every page, preferably top and bottom.

8. No Contact Information

Poor contact information is a binary pair of bad navigation. How many sites have you been to where you cannot find a phone number, a street address, or even an email address? Plenty.

I think it's sweet that you put up an email contact form on your site, but I prefer to use my default email compose screen. Every web-based email form is different. I don't want to waste time learning to use your form when my email client works fine.

What are you hiding?

9. No Decent Site Search Tool

There is no excuse for this one. If you have a large website with dozens or hundreds of pages, give me an internal search box to find what I need.

Google and Yahoo! and many others will give you the tool - free - to put on your site. Use it.

10. Disabled "Back" Button

I don't want a website to dictate how I experience their site. I am a guest on your site. I don't need to come back to your page when I hit the back button. That's why I hit the back button in the first place. You don't have the information I am looking for.
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In a similar vein, I don't like to see other right click functions like "view page source" disabled. I don't need to steal your HTML code, but if I want to, disabling right click will not stop me. I might want to see how you achieved a certain formatting effect. If I am impressed, you can bet I'll be back

Pet peeves take many forms online. No list like this is complete, but any webmaster that can avoid these 10 major annoyances is a hero in my book.

I look forward to visiting your site.

About the Author

Charles Lamm is a retired attorney who can be reached via email at focus@clixforbrix.com. His articles are posted on his blog at: http://www.virtualjoefriday.com.

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Hot HTML Tips

2008-07-16T09:00:00.004+07:00

Hot HTML Tips that Never Fail to Deliver

by Jim Wilson

When it comes to HTML, you can always count on accuracy and detail delivering your website's content in proper order to the search engines. If you are new to website building, or are struggling to understand why your website is not performing this article may be of tremendous value to you.

First, let's look at meta tags, these are the main points of interest to the search engines, they do not look at a webpage as humans do, so meta tags are the brail, if you will, to what they see. Meta tags should always be between the < head > and < /HEAD > tags, like so:

< html >

< title >(Your Website Title)< /title >

< meta name="description" content="(Your website's description) ">

< meta name="keywords" content="keyword,keyword,keyword,etc ">

< meta name="Author" content="www.your-website.com">

< meta name="owner" content="www.your-website.com">

< meta name="classification" content="(The main subject matter of your site) ">

< meta name="copyright" content="copyrighted 2006">

< meta name="rating" content="General">

< meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

< meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL">

< /head >

The <> section is where all the content goes about your site, closed by < /BODY >

The next step is to have the search engines focus on your main points of interest. You can call attention to these words or phrases inside your content section using HEADING symbols;

< h1 > Making Money Online < /H1 >

< h2 >Top Paying Keywords< /H2 >

< h3 > Landscape Rock < /H3 >

Just encase these phrases with the < h1 >< /H1 > etc, wherever they fall within the content.

This draws special attention to the search engines and helps your site rank higher in the search engines. Do not use more than 3 tags or it will only distract from what the search engines consider important on your webpage.

In your keyword meta tags above, adding the right keywords is important. Use keywords that highlight your subject matter, but avoid using, a, and, the, more, less, again, those type of words are frowned upon by the search engines. Search engines don't actually read, they just want to know the relevant words in your content.

Using Top Paying Keywords is a way to increase your Adsense Ads revenue, if you use them to benefit from the content or subject matter of your webpage. This is a very valuable asset you can add to your site, if you apply the right keywords.

Alternate tags is another great way to align your website for optimum display for the search engines. Alternate tags are used with images or pictures on your webpage. They allow the search engines to recognize the picture with words you provide. For example;

A picture html description would look like this:

< img border="0" src="internet-traffic-2.gif">

By adding the alternate tag, you can add keywords that are relevant to the picture or the content of your page, like this:

< img border="0" alt="website traffic" >< /strong > src="internet-traffic-2.gif" >

Anchor Text is a way to focus on keywords that link to another page or website. Again, search engines really like this and it draws attention to the relationship of keywords and relevant webpages or other websites.

< a href="http://www.Your-website.com">Making Money Online < /a >

For more priceless information like this lesson article, visit http://wealthsmith.com and see what affiliate programs are great sellers and other valuable information that will improve your website's performance.

About the Author
Jim is an online writer,entrepreneur, and all round knowledgeable kind of guy, that enjoys sharing his discoveries both on and off the web. "Life is short, and whatever we find, we can't take with us, so why not leave a trail for others to follow."

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HTML Basic Structure

2008-07-16T09:00:00.002+07:00

HTML Basic Structure

by Noel Dundas

Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML for short, is the language of the Web, and every Web developer should have a basic understanding of it yet many do not know the differences between versions or the importance of adhering to proper coding guidelines.

In this article we will discuss the importance of choosing the right version, using correct coding and validation.

HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01 is an important Web standard and very different from HTML 3.2. When tags like and color attributes were added to HTML 3.2, it started a developer's nightmare. Development of web sites where font information must be added to every single Web page is a long and expensive pain. With HTML 4.01 all formatting can be moved out of the HTML document and into a separate style sheet which, not only makes coding much simpler and clearer, can shorten the length of a page conserving bandwidth and speeding up the loading of the pages.

HTML 4.01 is also important because XHTML 1.0 (the latest HTML standard) is HTML 4.01 "reformulated" as an XML application. Using HTML 4.01 in your pages makes the future upgrade from HTML to XHTML a very simple process. Make sure you use the latest HTML 4.01 standard or, better yet, XHTML 1.0.

XHTML
XHTML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation January 26, 2000. W3C defines XHTML as the latest version of HTML. XHTML will replace HTML. XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML is aimed to replace HTML XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01 XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application.

When designing Web pages, try to use strict, formal and correct HTML (or XHTML). Strict and correct coding will always help a browser to display your pages as you intended them to look. If you elect for XHML, always validate it before publishing. XHTML is unforgiving, as we shall see later.

HTML 4.0.1 DOCUMENT DEFINITIONS.

There are 3 document type definitions in in HTML 4.0.1

The HTML 4.01 Strict DTD
Includes all elements and attributes that have not been depreciated or do not appear in frameset documents.

The HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD
Includes everything in the strict DTD plus depreciated elements and attributes (most of which concern visual presentation).

HTML 4.0.1 Frameset
Includes everything in the transitional DTD plus frames as well. Use this when you want to use HTML Frames to partition the browser window into two or more frames.

You could be using HTML 4.0.1 now, but have you defined it as strict? Consider the following code.

< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >
< html >
< head >
< title >This is bad HTML< /title >
< body >
< h1 >Bad HTML
< /body >

The two missing closure tags will be ignored by many browsers and the page will be displayed. However, if it was defined as STRICT, as below, the errors would become evident.

< html >
< head >
< title >This is bad HTML< /title >
< body >
< h1 >Bad HTML
< /body >

Does this seem to indicate the exact opposite? Avoiding STRICT in favour of TRANSITIONAL? Far from it.

XHTML will replace HTML; there is no doubt about this, it is called evolution, and the sooner you change your pages, to at least HTML 4.0.1 strict, the less trouble it will be to convert to XHTML.

WHY USE XHTML?

Web developers are often struggling with time-consuming double-coding to solve problems with different browsers versions. This is not helped with the addition of new hardware (like mobile telephones and other hand held devices) and new software (like micro-browsers).

To make the Web a better place, for both developers and end-users, it is of paramount importance that both browser vendors and site developers follow standards when they develop new applications.

With its tremendous growth, the Web needs standards to realize its full potential. Web standards ensure that everyone has access to the same information

Developers should not have to struggle with several versions of code to accomplish the same result. Does it make sense to limit your audience to only those with a particular browser? Standardization can increase the access to your site.

And lastly, a few words about often over-looked Issues.

USERS ARE SCANNERS.

Designing Web sites needs careful thinking and a lot of planning. The most important thing is to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.

If you believe a typical user will read the entire content of your Web pages, you are wrong. No matter how much useful information you put into a Web page, a visitor will only spend a few seconds scanning it before they decide whether to leave or to stay. On average, you have around 30 seconds; there is no loyalty.

If you want a visitor to read your text, be sure to make your point in the very first sentence of the page. After that you should try to keep them occupied with short paragraphs and interesting new headers all the way down the page

KEEP SENTENCES SHORT.

Try to keep your paragraphs as short as possible. Try to keep your chapters as short as possible. Try to keep your pages as short as possible. Less is often More to a reader searching for information so break it up.

Use a lot of space between your paragraphs and chapters; pages overloaded with text will kill your audience.

DON'T PLACE TOO MUCH CONTENT ON A PAGE.

If you have a lot to say, try to break your information into smaller chunks and place it on different pages. Don't expect any visitor to scroll all the way down to the bottom of a page with thousands of words.

VALIDATE YOUR CODE BEFORE PUBLISHING.

We have all been guilty of publishing without first validating our code. Many web page editors have a validation option built in, or there are several on-line code validation tools, so there really is no excuse.

About the Author
Noel Dundas has been computing since the late 1960s and has written programs in assembly language, Forth, dBASE and web languages HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP and MySQL. Noel has also published several books, physical and electronic, and is the SEO for http://www.software4me.net/ and http://www.ask-noel.com/

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Pushing HTML Beyond Its Intended Use

2008-07-16T09:00:00.000+07:00

Pushing HTML Beyond Its Intended Use

by Pamela Upshur

The following represents examples of what I call "pushing HTML." In most cases, the HTML elements either do not or would not include keyword content, or the specific HTML is included on a Web page in spite of the fact that it is not needed or used by the Web page. It is not inappropriate to have an input type HTML statement on a Web page as part of any number of scripts, and it is not inappropriate to include keywords in such a form field. However, in "pushing HTML," some Web marketers include hidden form fields, for example, on pages where it is neither functional nor part of the Web page design. As such, it is just a hidden HTML statement stuffed with keywords. Below is a laundry list of the remaining HTML statement that can, but probably shouldn't include keywords.

Keywords contained in an input type hidden statement (now widely considered spamming by search engines).
Keywords included in the head statement, as a homemade HTML tag of sorts.
Keywords improperly included in the ALT text of background images. The background of a Web page doesn't ordinary contain ALT text. However, since ALT text is generally not weighted very heavily by search engines, including your keywords in your ALT tag is unlikely to produce results better than including keywords in any ALT tag on the document.
Keywords improperly included in a font tag
Keywords in the comment tags
Keywords in the NO FRAMES tag of a Web page
Keywords in the image tag
Keywords included in a style tag.

While these are acceptable places to include keywords, you may be spamming, according to some search engine, if the page wouldn't ordinary contain or need this HTML as part of its design.

About the Author

Pamela Upshur is the owner of Upshur Creative.
Upshur Creative combines fresh, contemporary, fully functional turnkey websites with the best PHP scripts and databases to create the largest and most comprehensive turnkey collection for entrepreneurs.

Principles Of HTML Code....

2008-07-15T14:14:00.003+07:00

Principles Of HTML Code Optimization

By: G.Entp18

Just like spring cleaning a house, the html code of your web pages should get periodic cleaning as well. Over time, as changes and updates are made to a web page, the code can become littered with unnecessary clutter, slowing down page load times and hurting the efficiency of your web page. Cluttered html can also seriously impact your search engine ranking.

This is especially true if you are using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web design package such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver. These programs will speed up your web site creation, but they are not that efficient at writing clean html code.

We will be focusing this discussion on the actual html coding, ignoring other programming languages that may be used in a page such as JavaScript. In the code examples I will be using ( and ) characters instead of correct html so that the code examples will display properly in this newsletter.

Up until recently when coding a page in HTML we would be using tags such as the (font) tag and (p) paragraph tags. Between these tags would be our page content, text, images and links. Each time a formatting change was made on the page new tags were needed with complete formatting for the new section. More recently we have gained the ability to use Cascading Style Sheets, allowing us to write the formatting once and then refer to that formatting several times within a web page.

In order to speed up page load times we need to have fewer characters on the page when viewed in an html editor. Since we really do not want to remove any of our visible content we need to look to the html code. By cleaning up this code we can remove characters, thereby creating a smaller web page that will load more quickly.

Over time HTML has changed and we now have many different ways to do the same thing. An example would be the code used to show a bold type face. In HTML we have two main choices, the (strong) tag and the (b) tag. As you can see the (strong) tag uses 5 more characters than the (b) tag, and if we consider the closing tags as well we see that using the (strong)( strong) tag pair uses 10 more characters than the cleaner (b)( b) tag pair.

This is our First Principle of clean HTML code: Use the simplest coding method available.

HTML has the ability of nesting code within other code. For instance we could have a line with three words where the middle word was in bold. This could be accomplished by changing the formatting completely each time the visible formatting changes. Consider this code

(font face=”times”)This(font)
(font face=”times”)(strong)BOLD(strong)( font)
(font face=”times”)Word(font) This takes up 90 characters.

This is very poorly written html and is what you occasionally will get when using a WYSIWYG editor. Since the (font) tags are repeating the same information we can simply nest the (strong) tags inside the (font) tags, and better yet use the (b) tag instead of the (strong) tag. This would give us this code (font face=”times)This (b)BOLD(b) Word(font), taking up only 46 characters.

This is our Second Principle of clean HTML code: Use nested tags when possible. Be aware that WYSIWYG editors will frequently update formatting by adding layer after layer of nested code. So while you are cleaning up the code look for redundant nested code placed there by your WYSIWYG editing program.

A big problem with using HTML tags is that we need to repeat the tag coding whenever we change the formatting. The advent of CSS allows us a great advantage in clean coding by allowing us to layout the formatting once in a document, then simply refer to it over and over again.

If we had six paragraphs in a page that switch between two different types of formatting, such as headings in Blue, Bold, Ariel, size 4 and paragraph text in Black, Times, size 2, using tags we would need to list that complete formatting each time we make a change.

(font face=”Ariel” color=”blue” size=”4”)(b)Our heading(/b)(/font)
(font face=”Times color=”black” size=”2”)Our paragraph(/font)
(font face=”Ariel” color=”blue” size=”4”)(b)Our next heading(/b)(/font)
(font face=”Times color=”black” size=”2”)Our next paragraph(/font)

We would then repeat this for each heading and paragraph, lots of html code.

With CSS we could create CSS Styles for each formatting type, list the Styles once in the Header of the page, and then simply refer to the Style each time we make a change.

(head)
(style type="text/css")
(!-- .style1 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 24px;
}
.style2 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
--)
(/style)
(/head)
(body)
(p class="style1")Heading(/p)
(p class="style2")Paragraph Text(/p)
(/body)

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The Major Benefits of Layouts....

2008-07-15T12:00:00.002+07:00

The Major Benefits of Layouts in CSS

By: stefano sandano

One of the major features of CSS is the possibility to control page layout without needing to use presentational tools. However, CSS layout has gained a rather undeserved reputation of being difficult, particularly among those who are studying this language for the first time. This is partly due to browser problems like for example IExplorer 7, but mostly due to a proliferation of different layout techniques available on the Web. It seems that every CSS author has their own technique for creating multicolumn layouts, and new CSS developers will often use a technique without really understanding how it works. This “black box” approach to CSS layout may get quick results, but ultimately stunts the developer’s understanding of the language.

All the main CSS layout techniques rely on three basic concepts: positioning, floating, and margin understanding. The different techniques really aren’t that different, and if you understand the core concepts, it is relatively easy to create your own layouts with little or no hassle.

Long lines of text can be difficult and unpleasant to read. As modern monitors continue to grow in size, the issue of screen readability is becoming increasingly important. One way designers have attempted to tackle this problem is by centering their designs. Rather than spanning the full width of the screen, centered designs span only a portion of the screen, creating shorter and easier-to-read line lengths.

Centered designs are very important at the moment, so learning how to center a design in CSS is one of the first things most developers want to learn. There are two basic methods for centering a design: one uses auto margins and the other uses positioning and negative margins.

There are a few different ways of doing CSS-based layout, including absolute positioning and using negative margins. Float-based layouts the easiest method to use. As the name suggests, in a float-based layout you simply set the width of the elements you want to position, and then float them left or right.

Because floated elements no longer take up any space in the flow of the document, they no longer appear to exert any influence on the surrounding block boxes. To get around this, you will need to clear the floats at various points throughout the layout. Rather than continuously floating and clearing elements, it is quite common to float nearly everything, and then clear once or twice at strategic points throughout the document, such as the page footer.

Normally when webmasters create float-based layouts, they float both columns left, and then create a gutter between the columns using margin or padding. When using this approach, the columns are packed tightly into the available space with no room to breathe. Although this wouldn’t be a problem if browsers behaved themselves, buggy browsers can cause tightly packed layouts to break, forcing columns to drop below each other.

Another kind of CSS layout is the Fixed -width layout.Fixed-width layouts are very common as they give the developer more control over layout and positioning. If you set the width of your design to be 720 pixels wide, it will always be 720 pixels. If you then want a branding image spanning the top of your design, you know it needs to be 720 pixels wide to fit. Knowing the exact width of each element allows you to lay them out precisely and know where everything will be. This predictability makes fixed-width layout by far the most common layout method around the cascading style sheets.
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Which is the Best Browser....

2008-07-15T12:00:00.001+07:00

Which is the Best Browser Supporting CSS ?

By: catering roma

Today both Netscape and Microsoft have agreed to implement CSS in their respective browsers and this means that Web authors who want to use CSS have to knowwhich CSS elements they can and can’t use, as well as the significant differencesin the way adopted CSS elements behave in both browsers.
Both use only a subset of the complete specification as laid out by the W3C. Since both companiesare members of the W3C, however, they will adopt the full set of CSS elements over time — at least that is the hope. CSS1 (and CSS2) will only be useful to Web authors if they are widely adopted and fully implemented by browser manufacturers. If they are not, CSS could easily disappear. There is a precedent for this: the official HTML 3.0 specification was widely ignored by browser manufacturers.

The piecemeal way in which Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer have adopted CSS elements is holding CSS back from wider adoption within the Web authoring community. In many cases, CSS elements that are supported in Internet Explorer are not supported in Netscape Navigator, or they are not supported in either browser. Sometimes only certain values of a CSS element are supported, or they only work when associated with certain HTML tags. There are even cases where a CSS element has been adopted for use within a beta (or “preview”) version of a browser and then later dropped in the next beta release — presumably an oversight, but not exactly something to inspire confidence in CSS for a Web author.

There are also significant differences in the way CSS code works in the same browser operating under different operating systems.
In general, if a certain feature is already supported within one browser, you can most likely use a CSS element to set it, too. For example, the TEXTDECORATION element has a value called BLINK that flashes the text on and off repeatedly. It is supported within Netscape Navigator — where youcould use the tag to do much the same sort of thing — but not in Internet Explorer, which has never supported . On the other hand, there is a feature seen only in Internet Explorer called “watermarking” that allows the Web author to create a background image that remains fixed upon the page even when a user scrolls up or down. There is a CSS value ("BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: FIXED") that does the same thing.

Not surprisingly,this CSS element is supported within Internet Explorer, but not within Netscape Navigator. Knowing which CSS elements to use and which not to use is half the battle in constructing workable CSS code. It can only be hoped that over time all CSS elements will be supported equally well within the two major browsers.As time goes by and more Web authors become familiar with the details of CSS (and as more Web browsers fully implement and are able to display Web pages that use CSS), the demand and need for new HTML tags will be significantly diminished. Depending on how things turn out, CSS will either be a triumph or a resounding failure for the W3C, ultimately determining the evolution and development of HTML and of the relevancy of the W3C itself.
An understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of a given browser will help you to choose which CSS elements will be most effective inyour Web pages.
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How To Fix CSS Float Issues

2008-07-15T12:00:00.000+07:00

How To Fix CSS Float Issues

By: Sameep Shah

CSS is great. On somedays I'd go so far as to say it's a lifesaver. But every now and then you'll encounter a CSS issue that will drive you crazy.

In this case we'll talk about two of the more common issues when using the float property to create your layout.

For those of you who're new to CSS, Float is a CSS property that allows you to align your elements, such as DIVs, to create website layouts. The values for Float include Left, Right and None. You can use Floats to align elements and if done properly you can do in such a way that it's dynamic -- almost fluid.

Let's say you need to create an image gallery. Your idea is to place 4 images on each line, but after you place the first image the second image goes to the next line.

I'll admit in the past I used to use negative values to align my images so that the second image would show up next to the first one using the margin-left, right, top, bottom property. I even considered using tables, but opted to use negative values instead. There's nothing wrong with using negative margin property, but not when there's a better solution for it, such as using floats.

If you apply Float to those images then they'll align in one row, then you can continue to add more images using the float property and you wouldn't have to worry about whether they'd line up or not because the float property will recognize that there's too many elements on this line and it will push the images to the next line.

But what if you're using Floats for your website layout, for your divs and not just the images.

There are 2 main issues that you'll face with Floats.

Let's say you have three elements. Parent1(website's main container), Child1(left navigation bar), and Child2(content area). Parent1 is the main div container and your goal is to float the child divs side by side sort of like having a left navigation area and a right content area. Sounds great.

You've set your parent1's height to auto, and you've set child1 and child2's height as auto. But once you open and view it in a webpage the parent element's height is only 1 or 2pixels in height, the child elements seem to look like they're floating above the parent container, and the parent container doesn't seem to recognize the div's height. (see test link 1 on website).

No worries, here is an easy solution for it.

Add overflow:auto; for the CSS of the parent container and it will automatically recognize the floats and will increase in height so that it appears that the floats are part of the parent container just as you wanted. Wow all that in one line.

But don't forget there's still one more Float issue.

The second issue is more of a cross browser compatibility issue with floats, but still as important. If you try to Float for ex: three images to the left and are using margin property, then sometimes the first container that floats will have double the margin in Internet Explorer.

Welcome to the Float Peekaboo Bug / IE Float Doubled Margin Bug.

That's right if you've tried to Float an element and use any kind of margin then you'll notice that it will double the margin in IE.

I'm sure there are some decent hacks, but there's an easy way to fix this in CSS. The Float Margin Killer. In the CSS for that container add display:inline I don't know why but for some reason this property seems to fix the double margin property.

That's it? Yes that's it. Now you can start using floats.

CSS Menus - Part 2

2008-07-15T09:00:00.004+07:00

CSS Menus and 508 Accessibility Compliant

By: Ethan Kaufman

The Section 508 federal U.S. mandate requires web developers to create alternative means of viewing content on websites so that people with disabilities can also experience it. When compliant with 508, web content also becomes more available to all users including those using mobile devices, laptops, voice browsers etc. Therefore, while 508 compliance is something every company needs to be working towards by law, it also affords the same businesses certain benefits that are applicable to not only users with disabilities but to all potential users.

The use of certain types of content on a website makes it difficult or impossible for people without sight or the ability to read, for example, to comprehend the given content expressed.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Guidelines and Levels of Compliance

The W3C has been tasked with establishing levels of Section 508 compliance based on the regulations set forth in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

It is not always easy to retro-engineer existing software to comply with Section 508 regulations. The W3C - an impartial group of web and Internet authorities. To help companies work towards compliance sequentially rather than all at once, the W3C has broken the law into three priority levels: A, AA and AAA.

Levels of 508 Compliance:

Priority 1, Level A: Provide content that, when presented to the user, conveys essentially the same function or purpose as auditory or visual content. This guideline emphasizes the importance of providing text equivalents of non-text content (images, pre-recorded audio, video). (text from the mandate itself)

Priority 2, Level AA: Ensure that text and graphics are understandable when viewed without color and that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup. (text from the mandate itself)

Priority 3, Level AAA: Mark up documents with the proper structural elements. Control presentation with style sheets rather than with presentation elements and attributes. Use style sheets to control layout and presentation. (text from the mandate itself)

Validation of CSS Menu Compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

There are several validation tools available to software developers to determine if their products are compliant with 508 standards. Pluginlab employed several validation methodologies to ensure the highest level of 508 regulation compliance. These include:

Cynthia Says by Highsoftware is a premium validation tool for 508 compliance. The software detects inconsistencies between site content and Section 508 standards. Pluginlab passed this validation test with zero errors at levels A, AA, and AAA - validating that Pluginlab CSS menus comply with all accessibility ratings.

WAVE by WebAim is used to assist developers and designers in the creation of software with AAA level 508 compliance. All Pluginlab modules passed without error at level AAA compliance, putting it in a singular class of software.

Site Valet by WebThing provides diagnostics for forms, scripts, HTTP, mark-up analysis and processing, HTML, XML, EARL, Link Checking and spell checking. All Pluginlab modules passed validation with zero errors at levels A, AA and AAA. Once again, a third validation that Pluginlab CSS Menu Modules simplify compliance with 508 regulations.

CSS menus in particular are becoming a primary means of navigating a website's many pages and thus are a key component in 508 compliance. CSS menus that provide the necessary support should include such features as keyboard-only support, voice and text reader support and so on. In turn, this level of compliance will also help with search engine optimization of site pages containing CSS menus.

CSS Menus - Part 1

2008-07-15T09:00:00.001+07:00

CSS Menus - 5 Key Ingredients

By: Ethan Kaufman

CSS menus offer a greatly expanded range of creative options to site designers. But the benefits to using CSS menus only begins with more expansive design flexibility. There are numerous additional benefits to using CSS menu-based navigation - benefits that will save you time and money in the development and management of all of your client sites.

5 Ingredients for an ideal CSS Menu

Because CSS design separates design elements from site text, changes to the look of a site can be made by swapping out one CSS template for another without changing the text. In addition:

1. CSS Menus better be Recyclable. A CSS menu is a template. Once created it can be used over and over, amortizing development costs with each site you design and build.

With a file folder full of CSS templates, you can adapt existing design elements, give them a different look and employ them on another site without any re-coding. Consider how much that will cut down on site development time and expense.

2. CSS Menus need to be Easily Customizable. Pick and click saves hours of expensive hand-coding. Client requested re-dos can be completed in minutes instead of hours. Change the background color, change the type font, the size whatever the request, fixes are fast using CSS Menus.

And, as you build your client base, expect satisfied clients to come back for updates and upgrades to their sites. These updates are simple and cost effective. They also deliver great margins on work for hire assignments.

3. CSS Menus Must be 100% SEO friendly. That makes site navigation readable to bots and menu text is given high priority in search engine algorithms. Sites show up faster in SE indices when CSS complaint menu technology is deployed.

4. CSS Menus should be Section 508 Compliant. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires equal access to all non-classified information. There are also state regulations used by schools, public institutions, corporations, even restaurants and movie theaters.

5. CSS horizontal and CSS vertical flyouts and dropdown menus should be easily changeable for those with low vision, increasing font size and even background colors for easier accessibility. CSS menus are strongly advocated by the W3C in their site compliance rankings.

One other point. There's an active, robust support community for CSS menu design and development. This means there's plenty of access to good, reliable information from professionals who have already discovered the money-saving, money-making benefits of CSS menu modules.

WEB DESIGNING TIPS

2008-07-14T19:35:00.002+07:00

WEB DESIGNING TIPS FOR YOU

By: Softbean

A website's success is very much dependent on web pages you design. It's been seen that beginners are not much successful first time when it comes to website designing. New enthusiastic website designers generally design poor web pages and thinks they have done a good job. Just thinking those pages are ready to upload doesn’t make so. The reason they think they have done a good job generally because they are the one who have design that stuff, In most cases- ‘first time’. Like all areas of expertise, designing a webpage also requires a fair amount of practice. So guys never under estimate the power of practice, it does make perfect and the more time you design you will get better and better on your craft.

We are not trying to discourage you but it’s almost impossible to design a perfect website on your first attempt. Actually you can expect this miracle only if you are a very good observer and ready to follow the same path of experts. Of course, there are other ways to achieve this. Say, by using a user friendly templates or getting an experts help.
You can’t ignore this-Even by reading this article! It would not be a bad idea to follow our tips and advices to achieve great results while designing your web page

If you are from the group of people who still thinks more graphics and more colours will make a great website, we would like to discourage you. In a standard style of designing that would be a completely wrong advice for anyone. Please understand the value of space. When it comes to designing a web page, less is always better. Stay away from adding lot of strange fonts and thousands of colours; that will put your visitors off and will also give jarring effect on eyes. Think how much loading time it will increase for your web page. A general observation says that most people get distracted and bored after 10 seconds of uploading. Most people hate to wait and get impatient very easily.

Think about the most popular websites for a second. Take Google for an example. It has more plain background than any other website; still it is the most popular search engine in the world. Now take a look at its features:
• lots of empty space (white space)
• a beautiful logo
• few links in blue

• And a search box

That’s it! More people will agree on point of simplicity when it comes to design better web pages. We can give plenty of examples for this. eBay, hotornot.com and papal are just some of these websites following the same path.

Some thorough tips for making great looking WebPages:

• Using more frames and background music is never a good idea, follow the same rule when it comes to colour.
• Layout lines are desirable to be simple.
• Font colours should not exceed more than two or three max. Any kind of overuse is a strict no-no.
• Flaming taxes, animated GIF images will kill the beauty of your webpage.
• Be sensible while you apply a contrast between webpage background and colour of the text and vise versa.
• Deciding about the font size? Don’t overlook the thumb rule of balance, too big or too small fonts will not do any good to your website.
• Verdana and Arial are the widely used fonts because they look just right on your computer screen.
• Making very wide website is a mistake you should not do. Better test it on multiple sized screens and even on several screen resolutions

Keep the above points in mind while you are designing your webpage, remember that great design is not much better than better design but it’s always good to aim for better design because it is better than the average one. Don't forget, webpage designing is important but not more than content. It’s content of your website that is making your website famous and successful.

MultiMedia Flash Movie

2008-07-14T19:29:00.000+07:00

MultiMedia Flash Movie

By: Christopher Angus

An attractive website is essential to draw traffic to your site.One needs to be creative and make it lively, after allwho wants to check out some boring lifeless page? Flash multimediahelps in creating eye popping sites.Flash movies can be embedded intoyour web site and really make your web site stand out. One of thewonderful things about Flash is that you can fully customize thepresentation of your content. But using video on the Web has alwaysbeen about compromises. There are many multimedia technologies today.Ultimately they are coming up with more and better offerings.Software like QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media areinvariably the most used software when it comes to videos on the web.The typical download for one of these players is anywhere from 5 to 10MB. Alternately, even if you encode your video using any of the abovesoftware encoding tools, you are only limited to one streaming formator you have to spend a bunch of time switching between tools to makesure your content is accessible. In order to have a better qualityvideo without having to download a huge player that hoards all oftheir MIME types, new software applications are aiming at deliveringhigh quality video to the .swf Flash format.

If your aim is to give your web site's visitors as much information aspossible using minimum site's space, Flash will definitely give you anexcellent design and content. Highlighting your page with Flashanimation would give the site a feeling of being alive and trulyinteractive. Using Flash videos in websites is getting more and morepopular. Normally, creating and embedding Flash Video into yourwebsite requires purchasing Macromedia Flash and their Flash VideoKit. However, with a little effort, you can embed simple progressivedownload Flash Video content with minimal fuss and without having topurchase any expensive tools. You will need two things to have a Flash Video experience on your website. First, you need a Flash file (.swf) that can be embedded into your page and made to playback a video. Second, you need a piece of encoded Flash Video (.flv) that goes inside your player and gets played. This .flv video file can also be combined as part of the .swf file so the browser loads it all as one package.

Luckily, there are simple freeware and shareware toolsavailable that will both encode your video into Flash Video format andcreate the Flash player. An estimated 98 percent of Web users alreadyhave the Flash plug-in installed on their computers, video deliveredin Flash is a great way to go. If you have Macromedia Dreamweaver, youcan use either the Macromedia Flash Video Component or a 3rd-partyextension to build your own Flash Video player. If you want to use amore sophisticated Flash Video player in your website, you can createyour own Flash Video player application in Macromedia Flash.Both Flash and QuickTime offer some very unique characteristics whichmake them uniquely qualified to serve as the multimedia platforms ofchoice. Both Flash and QuickTime offer the widest possible range ofchoices when it comes to how a site can deliver its message. They areubiquitous with hundreds of millions of computers having Flash andQuickTime. QuickTime is so good, it can play Flash movies, and vectorbased movies, sprite movies, mpeg movies and even mp4 movies. It useswhat's called progressive download. They also run equally well on bothMacintosh and Windows computers. Bottom line, you get the quick start of a streaming movie with the quality of a downloaded movie. Both technologies are amenable to both artistic sites and corporate sites if done correctly. And finally,both are free.

Since there is a lot of competition in web designing it is alwayssafer and better to use creativity. With the help of Flash you cancreate your own videos, flashing logos, small movie clips etc. Flashgives better opportunity to use animation and sound interactivity. Itgives excellent opportunity to use completed movies as presentationsand it is an excellent option for banner advertising. Flashy websiteswith animation or 3d effects are far much more appealing thanmotionless pictures. More websites these days are opting for acreative website with 3d effects, high quality sound and graphics.

Music to homepage?

2008-07-14T12:21:00.005+07:00

Want to add some music to your homepage?

Saving Music

File Names

Foreground Music

Background Music

User Play

Automatic Play

Continuous Play

Small Console Control

Hidden Music

Real Audio

SAVING MUSIC

To use a music file, you must first save the file to your computer in the same way as you would
a graphics file.

Right click on the link to the music.
Select "Save link as" (Netscape) or "Save target as"
(Internet Explorer) from the pop up menu.
This will bring up the folders on your desktop. Select
where you want to store the file.
At this stage, you can also re-name the file. In the
"Filename" box, type in the name you wish to use.
Click "SAVE"
Then upload the saved files to your homepage.

DO NOT link directly to the music file in the collection where you found it. This causes
problems for their site, as well as problems for you if they delete or rename the music.

FILE NAMES

Music file names are case sensitive. This means that when you enter the filename, you must
use the EXACT name of the music file. faraway.mid is NOT the same as Faraway.mid or
faraway.MID You must always use the filename correctly, otherwise your music will not play!

FOREGROUND MUSIC

To make a music file play when clicked, you simply link it using the following tag, where
"filename.mid" is the full name of the sound file you are using, for example, "midione.mid" or
"bvhcop.wav".
If your background music is a midi file (and most are), then you cannot get a
foreground midi file to play when requested, as your midi player will be busy playing your
background music. However, a foreground wav file can play over a background midi.

<a href="filename.mid"> Play this music!</a>

.mid file

This should begin to play automatically.

For example, <a href="midione.mid">Play this midi file!</a>

Play this midi file!

.wav file

This may take a little time do download and play. Don't worry, I've chosen a short one!

For example, <a href="bvhcop.wav">Play this wav file!</a>

Play this wav file!

BACKGROUND MUSIC

There can be a conflict between the tags needed for background music with Netscape and Internet
Explorer browsers. To make your music accessible to more people, it is wise to include both
Netscape and I.E tags.

Netscape supports
<embed> tags.

I.E supports
<bgsound> tags.

If you want the tags that will be supported by both Netscape and I.E, then use the
following, where "filename.mid" is the full name of the sound file you are using, for example,
"midione.mid" or "bvhcop.wav".

USER PLAY

<embed src="filename.mid" width=145 height=55>

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid">

</noembed>

This will produce a music player which can be clicked to start and stop the music.

For a smaller music player, change the size tags to width=145 height=35

IE4.0 does not
display the smaller player the same as the IE3.0 series. IE4.0 viewers will see no difference
between the players.

AUTOMATIC PLAY - ONCE ONLY

<embed src="filename.mid" width=145 height=55 autostart=true>

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid">

</noembed>

This will produce a music player. The music will play automatically once your page has loaded.
It will play through once and then stop.

AUTOMATIC PLAY - CONTINUOUS

<embed src="filename.mid" width=145 height=55 autostart=true loop=true>

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid" loop=infinite>

</noembed>

This will produce a music player. The music will play automatically once your page has loaded.
The music will play continuously.

SMALL CONSOLE CONTROLS

For all of your visible play options, you can substitute a small music control console, instead
of the larger music player.

Simply use the following code:

<embed src="filename.mid" width=51 height=15 controls="smallconsole">

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid" controls="smallconsole">

</noembed>

This will produce a small console consisting of an "ON" and "OFF" button.

For a slightly larger version, change the size tags to width=144 height=15

IE4.0 does not
display the small console control the same as the IE3.0 series. It looks "part cut off", but is
still usable.

I have been told that viewers with Crescendo do not see the correct control console either.

HIDDEN BACKGROUND MUSIC

<embed src="filename.mid" hidden=true autostart=true loop=true>

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid" loop=infinite>

</noembed>

NO music player will appear on your screen. The music will be hidden.

This coding will produce automatic start, continuous play music.

Continuous music that you cannot turn off can get very annoying, so ... for hidden background
music that starts automatically, but only plays through once and then stops, use this
coding:

<embed src="filename.mid" hidden=true autostart=true>

<noembed>

<bgsound src="filename.mid">

</noembed>

REAL AUDIO

I get many requests for help with Real Audio. However, I know nothing about it!

To learn how to use Real Audio in your webpage, please visit my friend Jim!

Basic Email Tag

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Basic Email Tag

Email Icon

Add a Subject Line

Multiple Recipients

BASIC EMAIL TAG

<a href="mailto:youremail@wherever.com">Email me!</a>

Email me!

EMAIL ICON

Want to use an email icon instead of words? Simple!!

<a href="mailto:youremail@wherever.com">

<img src="filename.gif"></a>

(but put the REAL name of your graphic instead of "filename.gif" !)

What's that line around the icon?

Because the image is being used as a link to your email, a narrow "link line" appears around
your image. To get rid of it, simply add border=0 to the image tag:

<a href="mailto:youremail@wherever.com">

<img src="filename.gif" border=0></a>

ADD A SUBJECT LINE

You can make it so that a subject automatically appears in the subject line of your
email. Simply add ?subject=whatever you want it to say at the end of your email address.

(Note: NO gap between the .com and the ?)

<a href="mailto:youremail@wherever.com?subject=whatever you want it to say">

<img src="filename.gif" border=0></a>

MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS

You can code your email tag so that it automatically sends the email to several people. Simply
add the extra email addresses, separated by a ,

<a href="mailto:youremail@wherever.com, hisemail@thatplace.com, ouremail@home.net?subject=Whatever you want it to say">

<img src="filename.gif" border=0></a>

NOTE: The multiple recipient option is not supported by all browsers.

Basic Marquees Tag

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Basic Marquee

Color

Behavior

Direction

HTML Tags

Scrolldelay

Scrollamount

Loop

Blink

BASIC MARQUEE

<marquee>Then your text</marquee>

This is the basic tag for a marquee. You must always close with </marquee>.

This is the basic tag for a marquee, and it will scroll across the page from right to
left continuously.

COLOR

<marquee bgcolor="#xxxxxx">Then your text</marquee>

This sets a background color for your marquee. The #xxxxxx is the hexadecimal number for your
color. For some hex color codes, go to my Netscape Color Chart.

The bgcolor here is #FF99CC

WIDTH

<marquee width=n>Then your text</marquee>

This sets the width of the marquee. n is expressed in pixels or % of page width.

For this marquee, the
width="50%"

BEHAVIOR

NOTE: Beware of the spelling! If you use behaviour instead of behavior,
then it will not work.

<marquee behavior="alternate">Then your text</marquee>

The text will bounce backward and forwards
continuously.

<marquee behavior="slide">Then your text</marquee>

Note: With IE3.0 versions, the marquee will scroll across once and stop at the left side.
With IE4.0, the marquee will not stop, but will jump across and scroll again, instead of
scrolling off the page as the basic marquee does.

What happens here depends on which version of IE
views the marquee.

DIRECTION

<marquee>Then your text</marquee>

If you do not specify the direction, it will default to scrolling from right to left.

<marquee direction="right">Then your text</marquee>

The text will scroll from left to right.

<marquee direction="up">Then your text</marquee>

The text will scroll up.

<marquee direction="down">Then your text</marquee>

The text will scroll down.

HTML TAGS

HTML tags do not work between the marquee tags with IE3.0 versions, but they do
with IE4.0.

Therefore, if you wish to change the font size color or face of your marquee,
you must specify the font outside of the marquee tag. If you try to use it
between the tags ... the font changes might not work, depending on which version of IE is being
used to view your page!

<marquee>

<font face="Comic Sans MS" size=5color="#CC33FF">

The font MIGHT NOT change. </font>
</marquee>

The font MIGHT NOT change.

<font face="Comic Sans MS" size=5color="#CC33FF">

<marquee>The font changes WILL work!!! </marquee>
</font>

The font changes WILL work!!!

If you want to have several lines scrolling across your page, instead of one long line, then
you
will need to put each line in its own marquee tags. The <p> and <br>
tags might not work between the marquee tags. Be aware that the lines will scroll across
the page at slightly different speeds unless they are the exact same length.

<marquee>Here is the first line.........<br>

And here is the next.<br>

This third line is the last one! The line breaks MIGHT NOT work.</marquee>

Here is the first line.........
And here is the next.
This third line is the last
one! The line breaks MIGHT NOT work.

<marquee>Here is the first line.........</marquee>

<marquee>And here is the next.</marquee>

<marquee>This third line is the last one! The line breaks WILL
work.</marquee>

Here is the first line........
And here is the next.
This third line is the last one! The line breaks WILL work.

SCROLLDELAY

<marquee scrolldelay=n>Then your text</marquee>

This is supposed to set the number of milliseconds between each scroll of the marquee, where
n is the number required.

Scrolldelay="200"

Scrolldelay="100"

Scrolldelay="5"

SCROLLAMOUNT

<marquee scrollamount=n>Then your text</marquee>

The scrollamount is supposed to set the space, in pixels, between successive scrolls of the
marquee, where n is the number of pixels required. It also seems to affect the speed of
the marquee as well. The higher the scrollamount number, the faster!!

Scrollamount="1"

Scrollamount="5"

Scrollamount="10"

Scrollamount="50"

Scrollamount="100"

LOOP

<marquee loop=n>Then your text</marquee>

This sets the number of times that the marquee will loop, or scroll. If you do not specify, it
will loop continuously.

The loop=1 in this marquee.

The loop=3 in this marquee.

No loop specified in this marquee. It will loop
continuously.

COMBINING BLINK AND MARQUEE

Blink works in Netscape but not Internet Explorer.
Marquee works in Internet
Explorer but not Netscape.

So ... combine the two tags so that your text will do something in either browser!

<center><blink><marquee>Using marquee and blink tags together!
</marquee></blink></center>

Using marquee and blink tags together!

Color code chart

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Major hexadecimal color codes

Color	Color Code	Color	Color Code
Red	#FF0000	White	#FFFFFF
Turquoise	#00FFFF	Light Grey	#C0C0C0
Light Blue	#0000FF	Dark Grey	#808080
Dark Blue	#0000A0	Black	#000000
Light Purple	#FF0080	Orange	#FF8040
Dark Purple	#800080	Brown	#804000
Yellow	#FFFF00	Burgundy	#800000
Pastel Green	#00FF00	Forest Green	#808000
Pink	#FF00FF	Grass Green	#408080

Color code chart

COLOR NAME	CODE	COLOR
Black	#000000	Black
Gray0	#150517	Gray0
Gray18	#250517	Gray18
Gray21	#2B1B17	Gray21
Gray23	#302217	Gray23
Gray24	#302226	Gray24
Gray25	#342826	Gray25
Gray26	#34282C	Gray26
Gray27	#382D2C	Gray27
Gray28	#3b3131	Gray28
Gray29	#3E3535	Gray29
Gray30	#413839	Gray30
Gray31	#41383C	Gray31
Gray32	#463E3F	Gray32
Gray34	#4A4344	Gray34
Gray35	#4C4646	Gray35
Gray36	#4E4848	Gray36
Gray37	#504A4B	Gray37
Gray38	#544E4F	Gray38
Gray39	#565051	Gray39
Gray40	#595454	Gray40
Gray41	#5C5858	Gray41
Gray42	#5F5A59	Gray42
Gray43	#625D5D	Gray43
Gray44	#646060	Gray44
Gray45	#666362	Gray45
Gray46	#696565	Gray46
Gray47	#6D6968	Gray47
Gray48	#6E6A6B	Gray48
Gray49	#726E6D	Gray49
Gray50	#747170	Gray50
Gray	#736F6E	Gray
Slate Gray4	#616D7E	Slate Gray4
Slate Gray	#657383	Slate Gray
Light Steel Blue4	#646D7E	Light Steel Blue4
Light Slate Gray	#6D7B8D	Light Slate Gray
Cadet Blue4	#4C787E	Cadet Blue4
Dark Slate Gray4	#4C7D7E	Dark Slate Gray4
Thistle4	#806D7E	Thistle4
Medium Slate Blue	#5E5A80	Medium Slate Blue
Medium Purple4	#4E387E	Medium Purple4
Midnight Blue	#151B54	Midnight Blue
Dark Slate Blue	#2B3856	Dark Slate Blue
Dark Slate Gray	#25383C	Dark Slate Gray
Dim Gray	#463E41	Dim Gray
Cornflower Blue	#151B8D	Cornflower Blue
Royal Blue4	#15317E	Royal Blue4
Slate Blue4	#342D7E	Slate Blue4
Royal Blue	#2B60DE	Royal Blue
Royal Blue1	#306EFF	Royal Blue1
Royal Blue2	#2B65EC	Royal Blue2
Royal Blue3	#2554C7	Royal Blue3
Deep Sky Blue	#3BB9FF	Deep Sky Blue
Deep Sky Blue2	#38ACEC	Deep Sky Blue2
Slate Blue	#3574EC7	Slate Blue
Deep Sky Blue3	#3090C7	Deep Sky Blue3
Deep Sky Blue4	#25587E	Deep Sky Blue4
Dodger Blue	#1589FF	Dodger Blue
Dodger Blue2	#157DEC	Dodger Blue2
Dodger Blue3	#1569C7	Dodger Blue3
Dodger Blue4	#153E7E	Dodger Blue4
Steel Blue4	#2B547E	Steel Blue4
Steel Blue	#4863A0	Steel Blue
Slate Blue2	#6960EC	Slate Blue2
Violet	#8D38C9	Violet
Medium Purple3	#7A5DC7	Medium Purple3
Medium Purple	#8467D7	Medium Purple
Medium Purple2	#9172EC	Medium Purple2
Medium Purple1	#9E7BFF	Medium Purple1
Light Steel Blue	#728FCE	Light Steel Blue
Steel Blue3	#488AC7	Steel Blue3
Steel Blue2	#56A5EC	Steel Blue2
Steel Blue1	#5CB3FF	Steel Blue1
Sky Blue3	#659EC7	Sky Blue3
Sky Blue4	#41627E	Sky Blue4
Slate Blue	#737CA1	Slate Blue
Slate Blue	#737CA1	Slate Blue
Slate Gray3	#98AFC7	Slate Gray3
Violet Red	#F6358A	Violet Red
Violet Red1	#F6358A	Violet Red1
Violet Red2	#E4317F	Violet Red2
Deep Pink	#F52887	Deep Pink
Deep Pink2	#E4287C	Deep Pink2
Deep Pink3	#C12267	Deep Pink3
Deep Pink4	#7D053F	Deep Pink4
Medium Violet Red	#CA226B	Medium Violet Red
Violet Red3	#C12869	Violet Red3
Firebrick	#800517	Firebrick
Violet Red4	#7D0541	Violet Red4
Maroon4	#7D0552	Maroon4
Maroon	#810541	Maroon
Maroon3	#C12283	Maroon3
Maroon2	#E3319D	Maroon2
Maroon1	#F535AA	Maroon1
Magenta	#FF00FF	Magenta
Magenta1	#F433FF	Magenta1
Magenta2	#E238EC	Magenta2
Magenta3	#C031C7	Magenta3
Medium Orchid	#B048B5	Medium Orchid
Medium Orchid1	#D462FF	Medium Orchid1
Medium Orchid2	#C45AEC	Medium Orchid2
Medium Orchid3	#A74AC7	Medium Orchid3
Medium Orchid4	#6A287E	Medium Orchid4
Purple	#8E35EF	Purple
Purple1	#893BFF	Purple1
Purple2	#7F38EC	Purple2
Purple3	#6C2DC7	Purple3
Purple4	#461B7E	Purple4
Dark Orchid4	#571B7e	Dark Orchid4
Dark Orchid	#7D1B7E	Dark Orchid
Dark Violet	#842DCE	Dark Violet
Dark Orchid3	#8B31C7	Dark Orchid3
Dark Orchid2	#A23BEC	Dark Orchid2
Dark Orchid1	#B041FF	Dark Orchid1
Plum4	#7E587E	Plum4
Pale Violet Red	#D16587	Pale Violet Red
Pale Violet Red1	#F778A1	Pale Violet Red1
Pale Violet Red2	#E56E94	Pale Violet Red2
Pale Violet Red3	#C25A7C	Pale Violet Red3
Pale Violet Red4	#7E354D	Pale Violet Red4
Plum	#B93B8F	Plum
Plum1	#F9B7FF	Plum1
Plum2	#E6A9EC	Plum2
Plum3	#C38EC7	Plum3
Thistle	#D2B9D3	Thistle
Thistle3	#C6AEC7	Thistle3
Lavendar Blush2	#EBDDE2	Lavender Blush2
Lavendar Blush3	#C8BBBE	Lavender Blush3
Thistle2	#E9CFEC	Thistle2
Thistle1	#FCDFFF	Thistle1
Lavendar	#E3E4FA	Lavender
Lavendar Blush	#FDEEF4	Lavender Blush
Light Steel Blue1	#C6DEFF	Light Steel Blue1
Light Blue	#ADDFFF	Light Blue
Light Blue1	#BDEDFF	Light Blue1
Light Cyan	#E0FFFF	Light Cyan
Slate Gray1	#C2DFFF	Slate Gray1
Slate Gray2	#B4CFEC	Slate Gray2
Light Steel Blue2	#B7CEEC	Light Steel Blue2
Turquoise1	#52F3FF	Turquoise1
Cyan	#00FFFF	Cyan
Cyan1	#57FEFF	Cyan1
Cyan2	#50EBEC	Cyan2
Turquoise2	#4EE2EC	Turquoise2
Medium Turquoise	#48CCCD	Medium Turquoise
Turquoise	#43C6DB	Turquoise
Dark Slate Gray1	#9AFEFF	Dark Slate Gray1
Dark Slate Gray2	#8EEBEC	Dark slate Gray2
Dark Slate Gray3	#78c7c7	Dark Slate Gray3
Cyan3	#46C7C7	Cyan3
Turquoise3	#43BFC7	Turquoise3
Cadet Blue3	#77BFC7	Cadet Blue3
Pale Turquoise3	#92C7C7	Pale Turquoise3
Light Blue2	#AFDCEC	Light Blue2
Dark Turquoise	#3B9C9C	Dark Turquoise
Cyan4	#307D7E	Cyan4
Light Sea Green	#3EA99F	Light Sea Green
Light Sky Blue	#82CAFA	Light Sky Blue
Light Sky Blue2	#A0CFEC	Light Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue3	#87AFC7	Light Sky Blue3
Sky Blue	#82CAFF	Sky Blue
Sky Blue2	#79BAEC	Sky Blue2
Light Sky Blue4	#566D7E	Light Sky Blue4
Sky Blue	#6698FF	Sky Blue
Light Slate Blue	#736AFF	Light Slate Blue
Light Cyan2	#CFECEC	Light Cyan2
Light Cyan3	#AFC7C7	Light Cyan3
Light Cyan4	#717D7D	Light Cyan4
Light Blue3	#95B9C7	Light Blue3
Light Blue4	#5E767E	Light Blue4
Pale Turquoise4	#5E7D7E	Pale Turquoise4
Dark Sea Green4	#617C58	Dark Sea Green4
Medium Aquamarine	#348781	Medium Aquamarine
Medium Sea Green	#306754	Medium Sea Green
Sea Green	#4E8975	Sea Green
Dark Green	#254117	Dark Green
Sea Green4	#387C44	Sea Green4
Forest Green	#4E9258	Forest Green
Medium Forest Green	#347235	Medium Forest Green
Spring Green4	#347C2C	Spring Green4
Dark Olive Green4	#667C26	Dark Olive Green4
Chartreuse4	#437C17	Chartreuse4
Green4	#347C17	Green4
Medium Spring Green	#348017	Medium Spring Green
Spring Green	#4AA02C	Spring Green
Lime Green	#41A317	Lime Green
Spring Green	#4AA02C	Spring Green
Dark Sea Green	#8BB381	Dark Sea Green
Dark Sea Green3	#99C68E	Dark Sea Green3
Green3	#4CC417	Green3
Chartreuse3	#6CC417	Chartreuse3
Yellow Green	#52D017	Yellow Green
Spring Green3	#4CC552	Spring Green3
Sea Green3	#54C571	Sea Green3
Spring Green2	#57E964	Spring Green2
Spring Green1	#5EFB6E	Spring Green1
Sea Green2	#64E986	Sea Green2
Sea Green1	#6AFB92	Sea Green1
Dark Sea Green2	#B5EAAA	Dark Sea Green2
Dark Sea Green1	#C3FDB8	Dark Sea Green1
Green	#00FF00	Green
Lawn Green	#87F717	Lawn Green
Green1	#5FFB17	Green1
Green2	#59E817	Green2
Chartreuse2	#7FE817	Chartreuse2
Chartreuse	#8AFB17	Chartreuse
Green Yellow	#B1FB17	Green Yellow
Dark Olive Green1	#CCFB5D	Dark Olive Green1
Dark Olive Green2	#BCE954	Dark Olive Green2
Dark Olive Green3	#A0C544	Dark Olive Green3
Yellow	#FFFF00	Yellow
Yellow1	#FFFC17	Yellow1
Khaki1	#FFF380	Khaki1
Khaki2	#EDE275	Khaki2
Goldenrod	#EDDA74	Goldenrod
Gold2	#EAC117	Gold2
Gold1	#FDD017	Gold1
Goldenrod1	#FBB917	Goldenrod1
Goldenrod2	#E9AB17	Goldenrod2
Gold	#D4A017	Gold
Gold3	#C7A317	Gold3
Goldenrod3	#C68E17	Goldenrod3
Dark Goldenrod	#AF7817	Dark Goldenrod
Khaki	#ADA96E	Khaki
Khaki3	#C9BE62	Khaki3
Khaki4	#827839	Khaki4
Dark Goldenrod1	#FBB117	Dark Goldenrod1
Dark Goldenrod2	#E8A317	Dark Goldenrod2
Dark Goldenrod3	#C58917	Dark Goldenrod3
Sienna1	#F87431	Sienna1
Sienna2	#E66C2C	Sienna2
Dark Orange	#F88017	Dark Orange
Dark Orange1	#F87217	Dark Orange1
Dark Orange2	#E56717	Dark Orange2
Dark Orange3	#C35617	Dark Orange3
Sienna3	#C35817	Sienna3
Sienna	#8A4117	Sienna
Sienna4	#7E3517	Sienna4
Indian Red4	#7E2217	Indian Red4
Dark Orange3	#7E3117	Dark Orange3
Salmon4	#7E3817	Salmon4
Dark Goldenrod4	#7F5217	Dark Goldenrod4
Gold4	#806517	Gold4
Goldenrod4	#805817	Goldenrod4
Light Salmon4	#7F462C	Light Salmon4
Chocolate	#C85A17	Chocolate
Coral3	#C34A2C	Coral3
Coral2	#E55B3C	Coral2
Coral	#F76541	Coral
Dark Salmon	#E18B6B	Dark Salmon
Salmon1	#F88158	Pale Turquoise4
Salmon2	#E67451	Salmon2
Salmon3	#C36241	Salmon3
Light Salmon3	#C47451	Light Salmon3
Light Salmon2	#E78A61	Light Salmon2
Light Salmon	#F9966B	Light Salmon
Sandy Brown	#EE9A4D	Sandy Brown
Hot Pink	#F660AB	Hot Pink
Hot Pink1	#F665AB	Hot Pink1
Hot Pink2	#E45E9D	Hot Pink2
Hot Pink3	#C25283	Hot Pink3
Hot Pink4	#7D2252	Hot Pink4
Light Coral	#E77471	Light Coral
Indian Red1	#F75D59	Indian Red1
Indian Red2	#E55451	Indian Red2
Indian Red3	#C24641	Indian Red3
Red	#FF0000	Red
Red1	#F62217	Red1
Red2	#E41B17	Red2
Firebrick1	#F62817	Firebrick1
Firebrick2	#E42217	Firebrick2
Firebrick3	#C11B17	Firebrick3
Pink	#FAAFBE	Pink
Rosy Brown1	#FBBBB9	Rosy Brown1
Rosy Brown2	#E8ADAA	Rosy Brown2
Pink2	#E7A1B0	Pink2
Light Pink	#FAAFBA	Light Pink
Light Pink1	#F9A7B0	Light Pink1
Light Pink2	#E799A3	Light Pink2
Pink3	#C48793	Pink3
Rosy Brown3	#C5908E	Rosy Brown3
Rosy Brown	#B38481	Rosy Brown
Light Pink3	#C48189	Light Pink3
Rosy Brown4	#7F5A58	Rosy Brown4
Light Pink4	#7F4E52	Light Pink4
Pink4	#7F525D	Pink4
Lavendar Blush4	#817679	Lavendar Blush4
Light Goldenrod4	#817339	Light Goldenrod4
Lemon Chiffon4	#827B60	Lemon Chiffon4
Lemon Chiffon3	#C9C299	Lemon Chiffon3
Light Goldenrod3	#C8B560	Light Goldenrod3
Light Golden2	#ECD672	Light Golden2
Light Goldenrod	#ECD872	Light Goldenrod
Light Goldenrod1	#FFE87C	Light Goldenrod1
Lemon Chiffon2	#ECE5B6	Lemon Chiffon2
Lemon Chiffon	#FFF8C6	Lemon Chiffon
Light Goldenrod Yellow	#FAF8CC	Light Goldenrod Yellow

Starting HTML Part 5

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Anchors and Linking

Links allow the reader to jump from one section of a document to another section of the document or to a new document altogether. This is shown in Figure 5 below:

Figure 5 linking in an HTML

In order to link you require two things:
- The start of the link.
- The destination of the link.

The start of the link is called the hotspot and it shows up in the browser as underlined and in normally in blue until it has been clicked. It is designated in HTML by use of the anchor tag <> . Unlike simple tags the anchor tag has extra attributes which specify the name of the tag (so that it can be linked to) and the destination web page or page section. The form is as shown in Figure 6:

Link destinations and anchors

The destination of the link can be either:
-Another web page
-A particular location in an another web page (named anchor or bookmark).
-A location within the same page -The ability to link to a specific location within a web page is particularly useful when dealing with large web pages.

When the destination is another web page then the destination is the URL of the web page. The URL can be either a relative URL (if it is on the same website) or an absolute URL (if it is on another website). This is covered in Understanding urls.

In order to link to allocation in a web page the location need to have an anchor or bookmark. For example to make an anchor out of the text Example links below I would use the anchor tag < a >< /a > as follows.

< a name="example">Example links:< /a >

Where the link name example would be used in the link used to access it.

To direct a viewer to this area of the web page you would create a link to the named anchor using < a href =" ">. The example links: text below is a named anchor (anchor name=example).A link to this anchor would look like this:

Click to see < a href="http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/starting-html-part5.htm#example" >some examples< /a >

The HTML code is

Click to see < a href = "#example" >some examples< /a >

Example links:

Here are a collection of relative and absolute link examples:

Link to home page this is a relative link. HTML is

< a href ="index.htm">Link to home page< /a >

link to top of this page

this is a relative link to a bookmark. HTML is:

< a href ="#Anchors and Linking" >link to top of this page< /a >

link to another web site this is an absolute link to a page on another web site.. HTML is:

< a href ="">< a href="http://www.codekrub.com/" >http://www.codekrub.com< /a >" > link to another web site< /a >

Absolute Link examples:

Link to home page absolute link
link to top of this page absolute link to a bookmark

link to another web site this is an absolute link to a page on another web site

HTML for the above links:

< a href = "http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/index.htm">Link to home page< /a > absolute link

< a href ="">link to top of this page< /a > absolute link to a bookmark

< a href = "http://www.oeupdates.com/index.html">link to another web site< /a > this is an absolute link to a page on another web site

Exercise to try

The text at the top of the starting-html-example.htm page starts as follows:

Starting HTML - A beginners Guide

Create a named anchor called start-top for this text

Starting HTML - A beginners Guide

and now create a link to it from another document as follows with the following text:

This link will take you to the top of the starting-html-examples page.

The answers will open in another window.

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Starting HTML Part 4

2008-07-13T21:49:00.003+07:00

Lists and Tables and Images

Lists

If you have a number of items to place in a list then you can use either plain, numbered, or bulleted lists as well as lists of definitions. The lists are formed by a code to specify the list type -ordered or unordered and a secondary code to specify the lists items.

Primary code tags are:
< ol >< /OL >-- ordered list
< ul >< /UL >--unordered list i.e. bulleted
< dl >< /DL >---definition lists

Secondary Tags
< li >< /LI >
< li >< /LI >
< dd >< /DD >
< dt >< /DT >

Unordered list Example:
This is an unordered list-item 1
This is an unordered list-item 2
This is an unordered list-item 3

This is the HTML to produce the list above. My notes are in red

< ul > <---------- Primary Tag open

Secondary Tag open Secondary tag close

< li >This is an unordered list-item 1< /LI >
< li >This is an unordered list-item 2< /LI >
< li >This is an unordered list-item 3< /LI >

< /UL ><---------- Primary Tag close

Definition lists deserve a special mention as they are very useul for alist that links words or pharses with a much longer definition e.g. in a dictionary

Tables

Tables like lists are used for structuring data. A Table is formed using 3 tags:

< table >< /TABLE >
Indicates start and end of table

< tr >< /TR >dd
Indicates start and end of row

< td >< /TD >dd
Indicates start and end of a cell

A table with one row and three columns would look like this (with the text cell1, cell2, Cell3 in the cells) :

< table >
< tr >
< td >cell1< /TD >< td >cell2< /TD >< td >cell3< /TD >
< /TR >
< /TABLE >

Tables on Web sites are used to present information in a particular way and are by far the most popular way of organising a web page. Tables help designers layout text and graphics in the page so that they remain in specific places and relationships to other information on the page.

Tables also help determine what happens to the content of a web page when the browser window is re-sized. See laying out a web page using tables for more information.

I would also recommend you consult an HTML book for more information about tables. Web page editors like FrontPage or Trellian make making tables very easy. I wouldn't recommend you to try manually coding all but the most basic table.

Inserting Images

To inset an image on a page use the <> tag as follows

< IMG SRC="my picture" > where my picture is the name and location of the image.

It is usual to offer alternative text for people who use non graphical browsers nut more importantly today for the search engines. the format is:

< i mg src="my picture" alt= " if can't see my picture">

You can also specify the image size using

width= and height= attributes and even give the image a border using the border= attribute.

Here is an example of inserting an image called flowers.gif with a size of 300*200 and a border 1 pixel thick.

< src="flowers.gif" alt= " picture of a flower" width="300" height="200" border="1">

Continue to next---->Part5
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Starting HTML Part 3

2008-07-13T21:16:00.007+07:00

Formatting Text

Using Fonts

The problem with choosing fonts for web pages is that the font needs to be installed on the user's computer in order for the web browser to display it properly.
Fonts will always fall into one of two typeface categories either serif or sans-serif. The serif typefaces (the font has curly bits at the top and bottom ends on the letters) are easier to read on paper, and are used in newspapers and books, but the sans-serif (which does not have the curly bits) typefaces are easier to read on a computer screen.

The following are what are considered to be web safe fonts: -

Arial- This text is in 12 pt Arial font.

Times Roman- This text is in 12 pt Times Roman font.

Verdana- This text is in 12 pt

Arial font.Georgia- This text is in 12 pt Arial font.

The majority of web sites including this one use the Verdana sans serif fontIn case the web site user does not have the font installed on their computer you have chosen for a page it is best to specify several fonts all in the same typeface to keep your design as near as possible to the way you designed it.

If your chosen font is not available on the user's computer the web browser will show its default font. This is usually 'Times New Roman' for Windows machines and 'Times' on Macintosh machines.

Use the HTML font tag to specify several font tags with the with the font you want to use first, followed by equivalent fonts on other machines, and in case the user does not have any of these fonts on there system then place a generic typeface last: -

For example the body part of my web pages all start with

and end the body part with the closing font tag

this is illustrated below

< html >
< head >
< title >starting html< /title >
< /head >
< body >

Our text will go here!

< /body >
< /html >

The font tag can have several attributes (these modify the tag in some way ). The ones above are size and style. Notice that in the case of the style attribute it has multiple options which are themselves separated by commas and all enclosed in quotes.

The font tag is usually used for a block of text or the entire page but it can also be used on individual characters.

The HTML for this is shown below:

charac< span font-size:180%;" style="color:#ff0000 style=;">ters.

Notice how I changed the color and size of the t by using the color and size attributes. The HTML is below:

< FONT color=#ff0000 size=5>t< /FONT >

The Size attribute

the size attribute can have a value from 1-7 they equate to a point size from 8 to 36.

Size Point
1 8
2 10
3 12
4 14
5 18
6 24
7 36

The Color Attribute

The color attribute has an is a hexadecimal number representing red, green and blue components preceded with a hash e.g. #rrggbb. Where rr= red component etc.

Here are some of the common colors:

FFFFFF-white
000000-black
FFFF00-yellow
FF0000-red
008000-green
0000FF-blue

Exercise for you to try.

Write the HTML to produce the text below:

Black text verdana 18 point

yellow text Arial 14 point

red text times roman 12 point

green text verdana 14 point

blue text verdana 12 point

Clue black text is default and so you don't need to specify the color.

Bold and Italics and Underlined Text

To emphasis sections of text you can either make the text bold or place in italics, underline or a combination of all three.

the tags used are:

< STRONG >< /STRONG >
< EM >< /EM >
< U >< /U >

Here are some examples of how to use them:

This text is bold- and this is the HTML used:

< STRONG >This text is bold< /STRONG >

This text is in italics-and this is the HTML used

< EM >This text is in italics< /EM >

s text is in underlined and this is the HTML used

< U >This text is in underlined< /U >

This text is bold, underlined and in italics nd this is the HTML used

< STRONG >< EM >< U >This text is bold, underlined and in
italics< /U >< /EM >< /STRONG >

Continue to next---->Part4
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Starting HTML Part 2

2008-07-13T01:43:00.015+07:00

HTML TAGS Explained

We will start by examining the HTML we saw in the earlier lesson. This is a very basic HTML page but it illustrates the most basic feature of HTML.

< html >

Starting HTML- my first web page

< /HTML >

HTML consists of a series of tags which are enclosed in Triangular brackets (< >). HTML tags are in pairs and are case-insensitive; that is, it doesn't matter whether you type them in upper or lower case. Using upper case makes the tags easier to pick out in a document, but you can do whatever you like.

HTML tags are used by the browser for formatting the page but they are not displayed. Tags typically occur in 'begin-end' pairs. These pairs are in the form

< tag > .... .. < /tag >

Where the indicates the beginning of a tag-pair, and the indicates the end. (The dots indicate an arbitrary amount of content between the tags. The opening tags can also contain attributes which modify the tag e.g.

The first and last tags in a document should always be the HTML tags. These are the tags that tell a Web browser where the HTML in your document begins and ends. The absolute most basic of all possible Web documents is:

< html > < /HTML >

That's it. If you were to load such a page into a Web browser, it wouldn't do anything except give you a blank screen, but it is a valid Web page

Apart from a few exceptions HTML is case insensitive and so is the same as .

Next come the header tags and . The header tags contain all of the document's header information like the document title and so on. They are not displayed by the browser. Between the title tags you should have the title of your document in this case --Starting HTML---.

This will appear at the top of the browser's title bar, and also appears in the history list of the browser and any bookmarks. If you don't type anything between the title tags or don't include the title tags at all then the browser will typically use the actual file name for the title which can be confusing.

Finally the body tags and , between which you find everything that gets displayed in the browser window

Basic HTML Page

The basic HTML page that includes all the required tags is shown in the table below:

< html >

< head >

< title >starting html< /TITLE >

< /HEAD >

< body >

< /BODY >

< /HTML >

If you type the above into Notepad or just cut and paste the code and then save the file as start-html-example.htm. Then if you open start-html-example.htm using internet explorer. Internet explorer should display start-html-example.htm as shown in Figure below:

Notice in the above screen shot how the title "starting HTML" is displayed.

Main HTML Tags

We will now look at the other main HTML tags you need to know. We will start first with the formatting tags:

Headings

The heading structures are most commonly used to divide sections of text. There are six levels of heading (from H1 to H6) and by default browsers will display the six heading levels in the same font, with the point size decreasing as the importance of the heading decreases. Heading tags look like this:

< h1 >Text for Heading 1< /H1 >
< h2 >Text for Heading 2< /H2 >
< h3 >Text for Heading 3< /H3 >
< h4 >Text for Heading 4< /H4 >
< h5 >Text for Heading 5< /H5 >
< h6 >Text for Heading 6< /H6 >

Paragraphs

A page is composed of a number of sections separated by headings, each of which is composed of one or more paragraphs. Each paragraph is composed of words, and each word of letters. The beginning of a paragraph is marked by

, and the end by

. When a browser comes across a

tag it starts a new line and adds some vertical white space between the last line and the new line.

Paragraphs don't strictly speaking require the closing tag

but you should use it.

Exercise

Open the start-html-example.htm file in Notepad and insert a few carraige returns (hit enter key a few times) so that we open a little space between the body tags. We are going to insert our text between the body tags.

< html >
< head >
< title >starting html< /TITLE >
< /HEAD >
< body >

Our text will go here!

< /BODY >
< /HTML >

Insert the following between the body tags ( copy and paste) :

Continue to next---->Part3

Starting HTML Part 1

2008-07-13T01:23:00.008+07:00

Your first Web Page - An Introduction to HTML

Here you are going to familiarise yourselves with HTML and at the same time make a Web page. The tool we will use to make your first Web page is a simple text editor called Notepad which is available for free on all versions of windows. I recommend you follow these exercises on your own computer.

Exercise 1

1.Open Notepad and type the following:
Make Your own Web pages-for free

2. Save the file as my-first-web-page.txt in a directory on your computer (eg C:\webs\BYO directory).

3. Close Notepad and then open the File my-first-web-page.txt in notepad. Notepad should display my-first-web-page.txt as shown in Figure 1 below:

Figure 1. Text page displayed by notepad

Exercise 2

1. Now open the file my-first-web-page.txt in notepad and change it to the following:

< html >

Starting HTML- my first web page

< /HTML >

2. Then save the file as my-first-web-page.txt. Open the file again using notepad. Notepad should display my-first-web-page.txt as shown in Figure 2 below:

Figure 2. An HTML page as displayed by notepad

Notepad doesn’t know that is actually a formatting tag and not meant to be displayed, so it displays it as normal text.

Now save the file this time as my-first-web-page.htm and then open it again. This time it should open with Internet Explorer. Internet explorer should display my-first-web-page.htm as shown in Figure 3 below:

Figure

3. An HTML page as displayed by Internet Explorer

Notice that the <> tags are missing as the browser knows what to do with them and uses them to structure and format the text but doesn’t display them.

File Extensions .htm and .txt

The file extension .htm or .txt defines what application is used to open the file. Files ending with .txt files are opened by Notepad (or any other text editor) and .htm or .html extensions are opened by Internet Explorer.

Extensions .htm and .html

Web pages have the .htm or .html file extension e.g index.htm or index.html. Which one you use is up to you but if you start using .htm then stay consistent and save all you files as .htm files. All web pages on this server use the .htm extension and not .html.

Continue to next part2
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Starting HTML- For beginners

2008-07-12T22:51:00.001+07:00

by Stephen Cope

A 5 part series for beginners who have never seen HTML before. Starting with the very basics and building up to creating links. The Series is designed to cover enough HTML for Webmasters who will be creating their website using WYSIWYG web page editors like FrontPage, DreamWeaver, Trellian Webpage etc but would like to be able to manually edit web pages to add scripts like Google Adsense or a web counter etc.

I would recommend that you follow through in order but the links to the individual sections are also given below.
* Part1-An Introduction to HTML-Your first Web Page
*Part2-HTML TAGS Explained
*Part3-Formatting Text- Fonts
*Part 4-Lists and Tables and Images
*Part5-Anchors and Linking

Web page and HTML editors

Although it is possible to make a web page using simple text editors like Notepad or Word these tools are only suitable for very basic web pages. Anyone who wants to make a website requires a suitable editor. For an explanation of web page and HTML editors and also how to obtain some very powerful editors even FrontPage for free see the web Page and HTML editors page.

Learn HTML and create your own web pages

2008-07-12T17:54:00.000+07:00

by Satwinder Kaur

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and has the extension .htm and .html. The HTML file is made up of markup tags which tells how the web page will look like on the browser (Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Opera).
To write an html file, You can use the WYSWYG (What you see what you get) HTML editor, that are tool driven. But to be a successful web designer or developer, you should be able to write the code with hand and know how to use the tags. Good web developers are in the habit of writing the html file in the text editors, like notepad and save the file.
Now, what extension should you use to save the file .htm or .html. Initially, when there were windows 3.x series or with the older version of html editors, files were being saved generally with the extension as .htm as they allowed only three characters in the file extension, but with the higher versions or windows and text editors or on MAC machine the file can be saved as .html extension. Browsers allows for both suffixes. It acts upon .html and .htm in the same fashion.
Note : HTML is not a case sensitive language, whether you write the tags in lowercase or uppercase, the browser will treat them in the same fashion.
How to write a basic HTML Page Now, let's begin with a hand on experience of writing the html pages. Lets's write and understand the basic html page.
Open the notepad and start writing.
< html >
< head >
< title >Title of page< / title >
< / head >
< body >
Test Page.
< / body >
< / html >
Now save this file as test.html and close the notepad
Let's examine each html tag one by one
< html > < /html > : The HTML tag tells a browser that this is an HTML page.
< head > < /head > : The HEAD tag contains information about the page. The browser does not display the information contained in this tag to the user.
< title > < /title > : The TITLE tag is contained in the HEAD tag and dispays the title of the HTML page. This is what we see on extreme left top of the browser.
< body > < /body > : The BODY tag defines the documents' body. It contains all the contents (text and graphics) of the document that is displayed on the browser
Now open the file in the browser. Go to File-Open-browse and select the file to open.
So, your first html page is ready to rock....it wasn't that difficult ?? That's the beauty of this language, it is easy to learn and debug.
The HTML tags are not always simple , with some of the tags we have to pass the attributes. e.g if we want to insert an image, we need to provide the file name as the source for the browser to show the image.
< name="img1.jpg">.
Attribute values should always be enclosed in quotes. Double style quotes are the most common, but single style quotes are also allowed. In some rare situations, like when the attribute value itself contains quotes, it is necessary to use single quotes.

About the Author
A post graduate in Computers from India, has a working experience of 5 years as an IT manager in a private bank in Internet related technologies.
Currenly the creator of the website www.learnwebsitebuilding.com, a complete and comprehensive guide for website building.

A language known as HTML

2008-07-12T17:50:00.000+07:00

by Richard McLaughlin

Since 1995 or so websites have become one of the most popular means for companies and people to reach their customers and share information.
A language known as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is used to make web sites. HTML is a set of instructions to the web browser that are inside these guys, < > and you seldom get to see them. When youâ€™re done with an instruction, you end it with < / >. Inside those brackets, you need a command, like HR to make a horizontal rule (also known as a line across the page).

When I go to begin a web page, I type commands like these WITHOUT the spaces.

< HTML > < HEAD > < TITLE >Ya Gotta have a title < TITLE > < HEAD > < BODY > You can also control the size of your text ( < font size=2 >), underlined words, bolding and italics (even all 3 together). There are headline and a buncha sub-headlines. There are different ways to end a paragraph. Since the time that Tim Berners-Lee invented web sites, more ways have been developed to make website development faster and easier. What separates one website from another is design.

< CENTER> oh, yeah, you can center things. < /CENTER>

When designing a website consider the following key elements: the purpose of the site, the possible audience, content structure, and the design compatibility. Is this site needed at all?

Anyone about to create a web site should take the time to right a statement that says what the site is used for and what visitors can get from it. This will help the designer to plan a proper outline of how the website can be broken down and modified over time should (when) the need arises ï¿½ï¿½" having a long-term objective is a pretty good idea.

Who will be visiting your site? Women 16 ï¿½ï¿½" 26 from France and Belgium? Japanese men? In terms of audience, what is the target market. When you are doing this you should be able to narrow it down to one person who is your sample visitor. Killian Chad will be our sample person. He has an age, sex, marital status, he has (or doesnâ€™t have) pets and so many other details that you can point out.

Sure, there is only one Killian, but you have to have a target in mind and saying Killian is easier than â€œWomen 16 ï¿½ï¿½" 26 from France and Belgiumâ€. Site visitors will be viewing the site for different reasons, a designer should know what those reasons are so she can try to make the site hit that customers ideas, and if the designer is good enough you may get return visits.

Content is the most important aspect of a web site. It is also the most time-consuming section of the website. Try to guess how long it took me to write this 850-word article. A good site needs hundreds (thousands?) of pages to be worthwhile and to give customers reason to return. If they donâ€™t come back, they donâ€™t spend money. Very important note here so I will < EM> emphasize < /EM> it. Your average visitor will not spend money. Your return visitors are those that have the greatest chance of forking over money for you.

A lot of planning is required because this will be the most dynamic part of the site. This means that the information will keep changing every now and then. This is especially true if the website deals with articles changing every day like newspaper websites. Content may also mean the way a product is advertised or presented to the user. The more attractive the graphics are and the catchier the copy is, the more it will help get more customers to a website. Copy is the text content that is included on the website.

Another tricky part about web design is making it compatible for all kinds of web browsers. A web browser is what a person will use to access the website, and probably how you are reading this. Some browsers change a web siteâ€™s look. The designer has to keep in mind that programming is still essential in page layout.

It is tricky but not very difficult since not only a lot of tweaking of measurements will be made to adjust the website dimensions. Only test on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox (75% MS and 13% FF) ï¿½ï¿½" the other browsers only count about 5% of all users Online statistic I found at TheCounter http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/October/browser.php

The Web has changed the way businesses are run. People (like me) actually think to buy online before going to a store. I went 2 years without going into a bookstore. To get people to part from their hard-earned cash and buy items online (at your online store) is reason enough to have a good-looking site with interesting and accurate content. A professional looking site may help you generate more transactions and lead to more sales and higher more moo-lah in your pocket.

I am about to end this article< /BODY> < /HTML> There, all over.

About the Author
Born and raised in the US Richard joined the Marine Corps in 1982 and left the States in 84, planning on returning one day. 23 years later, he has lived for a year or more in Japan, Chad, Ireland and France. He has also visited 74 other countries for business and pleasure. He is a dual national, French and American, living south of Paris. He is bi-lingual English and French and has over 20 years international IT experience.

HTML - A Website Language Explained - For Over 35's

2008-07-12T17:30:00.000+07:00

HTML - A Website Language Explained - For Over 35's
by Stephen Brennan

This is a very perfunctory look at the website code HTML, for those who never did any kind of Computer Studies at school and have never had the need or opportunity to look 'under the skirt' of your average website. There's nothing that an experienced webmaster will find here that's not very basic, but for those who have just begun to discover the 'website' and especially those venturing into... maybe starting one of their own, here's a basic understanding to pique the interest and possibly kick-start the learning process.
If you don't even know what I'm talking about when I say HTML, as a means to follow what we're talking about as we go, then just go to this page - Home Based Business & Affiliate Center and click on the 'View' option at the top of your browser and select 'Source' or 'Page Source' (depending on your browser type) from the drop-down menu. You will be confronted by a Notepad document with silly looking symbols, letters and numbers on it. Well, that is HTML code. It's the coded 'blueprint' for the web PAGE (not the whole website) that you're looking at. Keep the Notepad document open to refer to as we discuss each part.
P.S. I have had to add some spaces into the example codes that wouldn't normally be there, otherwise the example codes would actually 'work' and influence the way the article looked in those article websites that accept their article submissions with html code ability. But you'll get the idea...
HTML is nothing more than a set of instructions for your browser program (or any program used to read web pages) to interpret and present the web page in a visual form for you to see. It's made up of individual symbols, with each either have a meaning in itself or sometimes a set of them (often many characters long) representing a simple instruction to place any part of the web page, say... an image in a certain spot or to perform a function.
Firstly, at the top, you'll see the <> tag, which is identifying the language being used. Then you see a < head > tag. That's comparable to the 'header' on a letter, where your company name, address and phone number would go. It's there for the Search Engines, like Google and Yahoo etc, so they can, at a glance, see what the web page is and what it's about. Under the <> tag there are <> tags, each of which contains information about different aspects of the web page like, the title, a short description, the program used to create it, copyright information, keywords that relate to the subject matter on the web page and other instructions that are meant solely for the Search Engine robots (spiders, crawlers - they have different names) when they visit.
The <> section is then closed off with a < /head>. That's an important part of the html code. Every tag that contains an instruction needs to be 'finished' by using the same tag with a '/' in front. This is telling the program that this particular instruction type is finished. It's like saying 'over' at the end of a radio transmission.
There are too many different types of instructional tags to cover in a simple article, but covering a few of the most common ones will give you the basic idea. Next is the < body > tag. This is the start of the part of the web page that will be visible in the browser. In the case of my webpage example, the < body > tag is long because it contains some specific instructions, which apply to the entire web page. They concern the background of the page (in this case an image is being used for a background that forms the vertical stripes), the colour of the page text and the different colours of any 'hyperlinks' on the page (before during and after they are being clicked by someone).
Obviously, it would be a huge task to systematically explain each entry as I have done up to now, but suffice to say, there are various kinds of tags containing coded instructions that tell the browser (or whatever program is used to produce the visual representation of the HTML code) what to put in the web page, where to put it, what colour to make it etc. Just with regard to colours, all colours of the rainbow are represented by a six digit system called the 'hexadecimal' system, which we don't need to get into except to say that each code that looks like '#A1B2C3' represents a particular colour.
The more oft used coded instructions found on a web page are:
<> - A font tag is the instruction to the browser concerning what type, size and colour the text in between these tags is to be. When anything about the font changes, you will see the new tag containing the new instruction, which may simply be a colour change. For example:
.
This represents text written in Arial font, coloured white (#FFFFFF), size 4 (which is 14pt text).
<>, <>, <> - Text can also have other tags within the <> tag, which denote, as these do respectively, bold type, italic type and underlined type. When the bold, italic or underlined type is discontinued, there needs to be a corresponding < /b> or < i > etc, to instruct the program to go back to the standard type.
<> - is a paragraph break. It can also contain extra information like where to align the entry (left, right, center or justify). For example: < align="left">
<> - is a single line break. It doesn't carry any extra instructions.
<> - A table is simply a box. It can be any size, in any position and have borders or not, which are coloured or plain, dotted or solid etc. It can have a specific background colour, which is different from the main page background. It can contain different numbers of rows or columns or just be a single open box. If the table is divided into rows or columns, the different sections within the table are called 'cells' which can all have the border, size and background options as the table.
- Defines a row within a table. It is always contained between a <> and < table > tag.
- Defines the attributes of any given cell within a table. Again, it can only be between a <> and < /table> tag. For instance: a 'cell' or <> tag might look like this:
< width="100%" height="64" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border: 1 solid #BF0000; padding: 2">
In this particular code the width indicates 100% (of the table in which it is contained), the height is represented as 64 pixels - both percentages or exact pixel measurements can be chosen. The background colour is, as you can see, #FFFFFF, which is white and it has a solid border, 1 pixel thick and the border colour is #BF0000, which is a red/brown colour. You also see another attribute - padding, which in this case is '2' pixels. This is the 'buffer' zone around the inside edge of the cell so that the contents of the cell (text, image or whatever) don't sit right up against the edge of the cell border.
<> - is an 'anchor' TAG. It is more often used to create a hyperlink to another webpage (in the same site) or another website altogether. The 'hyperlink' anchor will have the tag <>. Hyperlink tags will contain the location the user is to be taken. For instance, a link to my example website would look like this:
< href="http://www.online-plus.biz" target="_new">Whatever text is to contain the link< a > . You will also notice a 'target' attribute, which determines whether the destination of the link opens in a 'new' browser window (in this case) or it can be designated to open in the same window.
The <> tag can also be used to 'link' to another point on the SAME web page. In this case the tag used will still be the <> tag but the point to which you wish it to go to will have a tag. For example:
< href="whatever">The text to be the link< a > and the point in the page to which it links will have a tag < name="whatever">Word or image at that point linked to< a >
<> - Is the instruction to insert an image. Of course, the program needs to know which image to insert so, this tag will contain the location of the image (using 'src', meaning source), which will generally be within a folder on the server, which hosts the website. However, essentially, the address (url) of ANY image on any public server can be inserted and that image will appear on the web page. It is represented like this:
< border="0" src="images/logo1.png" width="195" height="66">
This instruction says the image has no border ("0"), it's source (where it's located is the 'images' folder within this website). It also has the measurements of the image in pixels. If an image from another website needed to be inserted, the full URL of the image would appear. For instance, if this image was located on another website server, instead of the 'src' being just 'images/logo1.png' (which is a local website address), it would need to be 'http://www.other-website .com/images/logo1.png', so the program would know exactly where to go to retrieve the image.
That's about all that can be covered in a short (or not so short article) however, I hope that to those who have either never seen HTML code or those who have considered it some mysterious secret technical jargon, will now see it as more friendly and understandable.
In my earlier days I found such websites as W3Schools as an invaluable source in the process of understanding what all the 'gobbledygook' meant. There is also a full list of all the different HTML tags and their meanings. I'm sure my over 35's peers (and possibly even younger ones) will too.

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