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Brief web Design TipsHere is a list of some tips to help you with your web pages. These are
simply suggestions to help you create a better surfing experience for your
visitors.
Avoid Under Construction signs - All good web sites should always be under
construction. Including the words "under construction", or worse yet a
blinking animation, only makes you look like an amateur. These notices are
so frowned upon that directories such as Yahoo will not accept sites with
one on the home page. Most awards programs will immediately reject any sites
displaying this dishonorable phrase.
Don't use a hundred different fonts on the same page - You can run into all
kinds of problems when you use fonts on the internet. There are
incompatibilities between operating systems (Unix, Mac and Windows all work
differently) and browsers. Fonts have to be installed locally by your
visitor - if he doesn't have it installed your page may look funny to him.
If you mix many different fonts on your page you are almost immediately
known as an amateur. A font or two is fine, but work to avoid the "ransom
note" effect.
Don't write your HTML to a particular browser - Browsers change very
quickly. The one that is popular today may be almost unused in a few months.
So don't spend any time trying to fit your HTML to Internet Explorer or
Netscape or Opera. Just make good HTML and then let the browser do it's job.
Use style sheets - Style sheets (known as CSS) is a way to gain incredible
control over how items are displayed on your pages. Better still, you can
create one style sheet document and reference it from all over your web.
This way, if you want to change, say, your text color from green to blue,
you only have to change one file. Every reference to the style will
automatically and immediately get changed.
Include Meta Tags - Meta tags are used to tell the outside world, especially
search engines, all about y
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