10 Easy Steps to a Useable Websitevisitors from what they came to your site for in the first place, your product or service. Your services are what visitors are interested in not a blinking, noisy, website. Flash also creates major problems with getting it properly indexed. There is no way for the search engines to extract content from your website as it is all contained with in the swf. If you absolutely must have a flash page it is imparitive to offer an html version as well.
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W3C Compliance & Macromedia Flash
A Creative Solution to Validate Pages Containing Macromedia
Flash and Work Around XHTML Specifications for Microsoft's
Internet Explorer.
Remember the "Good Housekeeping Seal?"
W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium seal of quality assurance
for your website, providing guidelines to insure your website
will look and function properly, regardless of the browser,
resolution or device that you use. In other words it assures
your website is clean of bugs and...
"How's Your Sense of Style?"
No, I'm not referring to your wardrobe here, but to cascading style sheets, also known as CSS. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, it allows webmasters to separate site layout from the design. CSS is actually a standard for controlling the appearance of your Web pages. It's essentially a set of rules that, when linked to or embedded in HTML pages, controltheir appearance.Right about now you're probably thinking "What's so greatabout that?" The benefits...
"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend.
I am going to give you a breakdown of my ... er ... work ... playtime .... income .... I'm a UK based Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Consultant. I build websites, content management systems and internet solutions for anybody who can afford me. I am a prostitute!! Yes! A prostitute - I use my website to sell my wares and hope that the client enjoys the result if they decide to pick me up. I like...
"How's Your Sense of Style?"
No, I'm not referring to your wardrobe here, but to cascading style sheets, also known as CSS. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, it allows webmasters to separate site layout from the design. CSS is actually a standard for controlling the appearance of your Web pages. It's essentially a set of rules that, when linked to or embedded in HTML pages, controltheir appearance.Right about now you're probably thinking "What's so greatabout...
"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend.
I am going to give you a breakdown of my ... er ... work ... playtime .... income .... I'm a UK based Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Consultant. I build websites, content management systems and internet solutions for anybody who can afford me. I am a prostitute!! Yes! A prostitute - I use my website to sell my wares and hope that the client enjoys the result if they decide to pick me...
.Htaccessextension. This adds extra load time to every page you have as well as extra server strain, if you are worried about load time it is always better to only use the .shtml files.
If you are planning on using the .shtml extension and would like to use SSI on your index page you must add another line of code into your .htaccess file;
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html
This line of code will allow your index file to be index.shtml and if it does not find one it will automatically check...
10 COMMANDMENTS OF WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY
We keep hearing about something called 'accessibility' for websites. So what is it all about huh?Well, it is all about webmasters making sure that they give any disabled visitors who come to their site an equivalent experience to that which a non-disabled person would have. So, if your site has garish rainbow coloured text and is full of puerile nonsense, then you must inflict your garbage on disabled visitors (who probably have enough problems...
10 Tips on designing a fast loading web site
Tips and tricks on effective web designThe Number 1 rule that every web designer should follow is to create a fast loading web site. You might have a great design but very few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. While designing a web site always think about how long it will take to load. Try out our tips to build a great looking web site that also loads fast.Minimize the use of images - The key to a fast loading web site...
10 Web Design Tips For A Professional Looking Niche Web Sitehere" links at the top and bottom of each page showing the path from your Home page, for example :"You are here >> Home > Widgets > Redwidgets"In this case Home and Widgets would be linked back to the relevant pages.7 - Site Map - Include a Site Map on your web site listing the title of each page with a short description and a link back to the relevant page. Not only will this enable your site visitors to find their way around, it will...
