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Testing and Preparing Your Template
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:
Writing Cross Browser Friendly CSS (Mozilla vs. IE)
Yesterday, a web designer approached me with a rather common question relating to CSS. He wanted to know why his CSS code looks great in Internet Explorer, but horrid in Mozilla Firefox and even Safari. He had designed a killer website for his company (I must say!) and the only drawback was the problem with [...]
Validating Your HTML and CSS Code
Validating your code is very important. Part of building an effective website is making sure that it runs effectively on all web browsers, operating systems, etc. Also, one of the disadvantages of hand-coding HTML is that there is virtually no guarantee that the code you write is validated without special tools. Many of the programs [...]
Making a Website Template With All the Fixin’s
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 [...]
Introduction to HTML & CSS
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. [...]
