Web Design For The Beginner
I am in the field of children’s health and fitness, but I just love web design and photography. With no experience, many ask me how I have created some of my web designs, which to me, are still beginner level, but attractive and usable.
The first thing I tell [...]

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Many factors could make you refrain from designing sites completely in flash.
Maybe you like to grab and customize free HTML templates, maybe it’s the fact that you need your content easily to be probably indexed by search engines or maybe you just don’t like flash because it has become tantamount to an inferno of [...]

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Simplicity in design doesn’t necessarily mean just the layout or visual impact of a website or blog because it can also be applied to the way you actually create web content.
Many people entering the internet fray on their own will soon ask the question “what software should I use to write my code?” It’s an [...]

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We talk a lot about semantic and valid HTML. What people tend to forget are the structure of their HTML code. If you take a look at the source code of ten random sites, chances are that nine of them are very messy €“ source code-wise.
Is it worth spending time on structuring it probably? After [...]

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Most of us probably feel that our SEO skills are pretty decent, but there is always room for improvement.
In a recent article, Chris Pearson gives us the Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs, where he writes:
You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close [...]

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Many visitors to my site have downloaded my XHTML templates and then email me to show me how they are using my work.

Some are less-experienced coders or do not really know how XHTML differs from HTML.

Here are the most common errors I’ve come across…

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You are a curious and creative web designer and wanting to know more about CSS and its hefty tricks. But the information on one CSS website is not enough. You blindly search, visit, and bookmark any website that intrigues you. But by the end of the day, your bookmarks that you collected are all over [...]

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Since I made the switch 6 months ago to a tableless design on my main site, I’ve noticed some interesting things:
1. My search engine rankings have dramatically improved
2. My bandwidth usage has dropped about 50-75%
3. I can now make changes to the look and feel of my site easily by just changing the one file, [...]

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This list is neither comprehensive nor an endorsement, it is just intended to show the options. Below I’ve provided a few of the best known CSS tools that I know about.
Top Style by www.bradsoft.com
Stylemaster by www.westciv.com
Additional links to other useful tools can be found at:
Eric Meyer on CSS: Links to CSS Tools: www.ericmeyeroncss.com/links/tools.html
CSS Tools: [...]

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