In a Previous tip, I went on and on about the perils of having music play automatically when you design your website. Now, of course, I'm being inundated with questions about how to put music on your site. I should have seen that coming. Okay. I'll tell you, as long as you promise to give … Continue reading Web Design Workshop: The Sounds of Music
Web Design Workshop: What's That Sound?
Did you hear that? Why is this site taking so long to load? What the heck is going on? If you have asked those questions, then most likely you have visited a website that includes music as a part of its design. The owner of the website probably loves that song and wants to share … Continue reading Web Design Workshop: What's That Sound?
Web Design Workshop: Consistency
A web site, no matter if it is two pages or 200, should have a consistent design throughout the site. Things like font selection, color scheme, and the use of graphics should all look like they are coming from the same place. Consistent site design adds a coherency to the site, which lets the user … Continue reading Web Design Workshop: Consistency
Web Design Workshop: Use Outlook Express to Create a Web Page
Don't have a web page editing program? Don't know HTML? No sweat. Anyone can write an email—so why not use Outlook Express to design your web page. Huh? That's right. If you can make a rich text email you can save it as a web page. It won't be the fanciest site on the net, … Continue reading Web Design Workshop: Use Outlook Express to Create a Web Page
Web Design Workshop: Break Your Design 2—Background Tile
Previously we talked about breaking your website design into smaller pieces so it can be reassembled into your web page building program. Let's talk about backgrounds today. My design had a simple white background, which is easy to work with. You just set the background color to white in your web page building program and … Continue reading Web Design Workshop: Break Your Design 2—Background Tile
Free web hosting
Web Design Workshop: Free Web Hosting Yes, it's out there. If you want to put up a personal page you don't need to go through all the trouble of buying a domain name and paying for space. The only trade off is that your site will have banner ads, pop-ups, and/or ads on the side … Continue reading Free web hosting
Break Your Design
Is the design for your main page ready? Good. Now let's break it apart. Really. Now that you've completed the design for the main page of your site in a graphic program it must be broken down into smaller pieces and reassembled in a web page building program. This is done so the page loads … Continue reading Break Your Design
Design Your Web Site
Here are a few things to think about when designing your site. The design is where you can express the personality of your site. It's your site and you can make it look however you want. Some people will try to tell you that your site has to look a certain way. For example, you … Continue reading Design Your Web Site
Your Very Own Domain
So, you would like to design your own website, huh? Well good for you 🙂 Whether it's a personal site or a business site that you are creating you will need a Domain Name A Domain Name is a unique name that identifies an Internet Site. Without getting into a bunch of technical jargon it’s … Continue reading Your Very Own Domain
Finding a Web Host
Okay, so you bought your domain name. You're happy, you're excited, you're…. wait, well now what do you do with it? Now that you have a domain name you need to put it some place. Let me tell you where 😉 Buying a domain name does not automatically put your web site out there on … Continue reading Finding a Web Host