Jun
19
Section 508 Checklist
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The following checklist covers all aspects of Section 508. Use this as a guide to ensure your application is in compliance. Read more
Dec
21
Building an SEO Friendly Website
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Building a search engine friendly website can be a difficult thing, but it’s absolutely essential to getting quality traffic to your website. There are two kinds of SEO, black hat and white hat optimization. The actual line between the two are very thin, but black hat is frequently referred to websites that use spam and unethical techniques to gain a search engine ranking by beating the system, and white hat refers to websites that gain search engine ranking by having quality content and following the search engine rules. Read more
Dec
6
Testing and Preparing Your Template
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Now that we have the basics of our web page template set up, we need to prepare it for expansion. Here is some final house cleaning that will make it ready for prime time: Read more
Dec
5
Now that you’ve learned basic HTML and CSS skills, its time to apply those tools to the website template that we made for the Women’s Group, the design we’ve been working with. If you feel that you’re lacking in the HTML and CSS skills, don’t worry you’ll definitely get a hang of it by the end of the course. Practice makes perfect in this field, but anybody has the capability to be a great artist and programmer. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing all of the designs you’ve put together! Read more
Dec
3
Introduction to HTML & CSS
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This is probably going to be the most challenging chapter of the whole book, so please pay close attention to the concepts you learn and practice creating your own web pages. As I mentioned in the previous chapter, WYSIWYG editors are an option, but I certainly recommend hand-coding all of the exercises I give you. They will pay off very quickly. Read more
Dec
2
Hand-Coding vs. WYSIWYG Editors
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As you’ve seen in the previous chapter, Adobe Photoshop and GIMP both do a great job at generating “starter” code for you to develop on. In Web Design, there are two different ways to edit a web page: you have the option to hand-code HTML or you can use a code generated “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) editor. There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to both, and I’d like to go into detail with these options so you can decide which route you would like to go. Read more
Dec
2
Now that you’ve built a website in your graphics editor, the last step you need to take within your editor is to make a web page out of the layout you’ve created. This is an important step toward getting your content ready for coding in the next book. Adobe Photoshop and Gimp both have different ways of achieving this. Guillotine is an extension to GIMP, which you will have to download and install first, that allows you to slice your design into multiple images that you can place into a page. Here is Adobe Photoshop and the GIMP ways of accomplishing this: Read more
Oct
8
I’m sure you’ve all heard about this Web 2.0 craze that is sweeping the Internet by storm. Unfortunately, not very many people are tuning into it as they should, which means that those who understand it are going to have a distinct advantage over those who have no made themselves aware of the new web world. Read more
Feb
15
HTML Tables vs. CSS Layouts
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I’ve decided to make HTML vs. CSS my first article because I believe that CSS is growing at such a rapid pace that any web designer who is not familiar with designing CSS layouts (rather than HTML tables) will eventually render their skills obsolete. Take this website for example, AmazingDesignSecrets.com, we are devoted to teaching those who want to learn html, graphic design, and web design. If you take a look at any of the code throughout the entire website, you’ll notice that no tables exist on any page—yet you still see centered page with unique alignments and structured shapes and colors. Read more