Web Design Tips
Here are a few friendly tips. Use them, or don't... It's up to you!
- Learn HTML and CSS. Yes, there are shiny graphical web page designer softwares, and they can occasionally do a competent job, but there's nothing better than actually knowing what you're doing. :) It's not hard; most people can pick it up in a couple days. No need to buy an expensive book, either. There are plenty of tutorials on the internet itself!
- Don't use MSWord's HTML exporter. It's bad for so many reasons.
- Decide which page you want to come up first, and name it index.html
- Put all the web page documents, sounds, animations, Java applets, graphics and what not you want to use in a single directory (or even better, subdirectories under a main one), not all over your hard drive.
- All files you want to use in the page should be in lower case, and have no spaces in the names.
- When referring to file names, the slash should always be /, not \
- If providing a link to a web site other than yours, be sure to include the http:// portion of the address!
- When looking at your HTML, there should be no references to your hard drive in any of the links. An example
of this would be something like:
<IMG SRC="C:\\Temp 2\\bar.gif">