HTML
Web Design Building Blocks for the
Beginner
Ready to
dive into website designing? Remember that HTML web
design is building blocks for beginners in creating
Internet pages so read the introduction to
HTML
for beginners
closely. In a world where people have websites the
way they used to have printed business cards, the
system certainly has evolved to place it within
everyone's reach to have a presence on the web of
their own.
There
are free hosting services, and there are lots of
user-friendly web
design courses
and programs that help you get a basic (or
moderately sophisticated) website up and running in
no time. The downside to having the Internet be so
available and approachable is that people don't
nearly put enough thought into their efforts when
they set off down a path making a website to call
their own. Here's a little call that should help
you get back to the essentials of good website
design. To help everyone remember how important it
still is to make sure that a personal website is a
good one.
Why
Build Pages?
The
reason you have a website is almost always that you
want people to be able to find you and come to you.
Now people will find you only if you make your
website search engine friendly. You need to make
sure that you read up a little about search engine
optimization.
Google
finds it easier to locate a website when there is a
lot of text on it. This would help it connect your
website with the kind of subject you have in mind.
Make sure your website has a reasonable number of
instances of the kinds of words that searchers
would usually think of to locate your site.
Of
course this would mean that you would need to not
make your website too dependent on Flash videos and
graphics. Those are things that the search engines
just cannot fathom. While you certainly can have
videos and pictures, if you want, you need to make
sure that there's text in there too that gives the
search engines something something to sink their
teeth into.
Finding
a Theme and Niche
Good
website design is supposed to follow a kind of
philosophy. The best way to pick up on a good
philosophy would be to go about on Internet and to
find websites that seem to draw you in for no
tangible reason. When you pick up enough good vibes
from websites to do with what a solid core layout
is supposed to look like, you can take it from
there. Have you ever been to a website and found
that it worked well on Internet Explorer but not on
Google Chrome?
Have
you ever found a website that seemed to go haywire
if you used an unconventional screen resolution?
What kind of impression does it leave you with when
a website has broken links or links that work
unreliably? You are probably understandably
frustrated at how some people just put websites out
there that they don't care to think through. Make
sure that no one says that about your website. Make
sure that your website is good for prime time
before you launch it.
About
White Space
The
way some people design their websites, they try to
make sure that there is as little wasted space is
possible. Good website design requires that you
actually waste quite a bit of space. The best
format would be allowing wide margins on either
side of your content that have nothing in them.
To
allow for 20% free space on either side of your
content would be the best. It draws attention to
your content. Check out TMZ or any other major
website. That's what they do. Make sure that you
maintain a general website look all over that is
consistent from page to page. And make sure that
the stuff you have on your website doesn't slow the
speed at which it loads.
This
HTML tutorial is written by Candice Pardue, founder
of the Web
Design Bi-Weekly Newsletter.
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