Archive | December, 2007

Testing and Preparing Your Template

by A.J. McClary on 06. Dec, 2007 in Web Design

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: (more…)

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Writing Cross Browser Friendly CSS (Mozilla vs. IE)

by A.J. McClary on 05. Dec, 2007 in Web Design

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 cross-browser compatibility. He didn’t understand why he was experiencing these problems because he knew that all of his XHTML and CSS code was valid and he even checked all of his CSS code with the W3C to make sure that it was tested against their standards in CSS development. (more…)

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Validating Your HTML and CSS Code

by A.J. McClary on 05. Dec, 2007 in Web Design

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 we’ve discussed earlier in the book comes with a HTML and CSS validation plug-in, like Macromedia Dreamweaver, but there are tests you can run that will ensure that your website is effective is running HTML. (more…)

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Making a Website Template With All the Fixin’s

by A.J. McClary on 05. Dec, 2007 in Web Design

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! (more…)

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Introduction to HTML & CSS

by A.J. McClary on 03. Dec, 2007 in Internet Marketing, Web Design

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. (more…)

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