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Web design has changed a lot since I built my first site
back in 1996. You can make your site interactive, personalize it for the
specific visitor and so much more. Still, the basics haven't changed and
it never hurts to know about the basics. That's what this section is all
about. Want the whole story? Try reading our web
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Introduction
to HTML
 It
seems like only yesterday that I designed my first website and submitted
it to Yahoo. The site was added to Yahoo's listings that same day and
I even received a personal e-mail confirming it. How times have changed.
The web has become so vast that it can now take months for a Yahoo listing
to appear, if at all. The basics of web pages, however, have not changed
all that much. HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language) coding is still what a web browser reads
to display a web page. Through the use of essential,
link, alignment,
list, table,
rule and image
tags, most anyone can...read
more
HTML
Text and Alignment Tags
Here's
a listing of all the various text and alignment tags. The tags are listed
in blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the tags are listed below
them. If you haven't done so, you might want to read the introductory
article on HTML first....read
more
Backgrounds
Should Stay There!
If
I were to give any potential web designer a piece of advice, I would tell
them to choose their background colors and patterns carefully. All too
often I am confronted with a page that sports a supposedly "really
cool" background that obscures the page's text. You'd think these
people wanted to keep the content a secret. Every HTML document has a
<BODY> tag which is where a browser obtains the information for a page's
background, be it an image or a flat color. If a background isn't specified,
viewers will see the default background color setting of their browsers.
...read more
Essential
HTML Tags
This
is a listing of the tags that must be listed inside an html document.
The tags are listed in blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the
tags are listed below. If you aren't familiar with HTML, you might want
to read the introductory article
on HTML first....read
more
Web
and Hexadecimal Colors
As
most any web-designer knows, there are 216-colors that can be seen withconsistency
by most people on the Web. This goes on the assumption that most everyone
is using at least a 256-color monitor and are viewing the Web on either
a Windows or a Macintosh computer. So, with that in mind, why aren't we
talking about 256-colors if a 256-color monitor is the baseline? Well,
Windows and Macintosh systems actually use different 256-color palates.
When broken down, it turns out that...read
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HTML
Link Tags
Here's
a listing of all the various link tags. The BODY tags are also covered
in the essential tags
article but I've included them here as they are also link tags. The
tags are listed in blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the tags
are listed below them. If you haven't done so, you might want to read
the introductory article
on HTML first....read
more
HTML
List Tags
This
a listing of all the various list tags. The tags are listed in blue. The
attributes (if any) that go inside the tags are listed below them. If
you haven't done so, you might want to read the introductory
article on HTML first....read
more
HTML
Rule & Image Tags
This
is a listing of all the various image and rule tags. The tags are listed
in blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the tags are listed below
them. If you haven't done so, you might want to read the introductory
article on HTML first....read
more
HTML
Table Tags
Here's
a listing of all the various HTML table tags. Any web-designer knows that
tables are one of the most useful tools in HTML. The tags are listed in
blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the tags are listed below
them . If you haven't done so, you might want to read the introductory
article on HTML first....read
more
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