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3 Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves Before Designing or Redesigning a Webpage
With web design tools becoming easier and easier to use, almost anyone with an idea can create their own website. In many cases, individuals who design without professional guidance miss key elements, which compromise the effectiveness of their...
About Your Web Design? - Panic No More!
The Net is bombarded with different kinds of websites. When you visit from one website to another, you can’t help but compare. In some instances, you do not even have time to compare, involuntarily, you are clicking away from the site. If you...
Email tips and tricks
Excerpted from the upcoming book The Busy Person's Guide to a Profitable Website and PlanetLink's Enews - an email newsletter delivered for FREE to your computer. To subscribe, go to www.planetlink.com. We'll explore the use and abuse of...
How to Design and Setup a Website
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How to Design Website which Google Likes
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Inexpensive Web Design
Web design is a very competitive area and there is no longer any
reason why people should pay large amounts for website design
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This article describes and explains where to find very very
cheap website design services.
The...
Keywords and SEO. The facts.
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The Top Ten List Of Website Annoyances!
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As the rate of information technology increases, many small
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WHERE THE BIG BUCKS ARE
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Teach yourself CSS the easy way
I taught myself HTML back in the mid-nineties and was proud of the fact that I was able to accomplish the design of fairly complex web pages with nothing more than a starter HTML book, an HTML reference book, and the knowledge I had stored in my head. But back in those days, we web designers had what looking back was a fairly limited amount of tools with which to work, and the quality (or lack thereof) of sites on the web was lackluster at best.
Fast-forward to today: The hand-coder has more powerful and intuitive software packages available that will still allow us "to get our hands dirty", which brings us to the purpose of this article. With the standardization of the much anticipated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the late-nineties, the web design community has become familiar with a much more powerful and precise method of web page layout.
"But how is an old-time web coder supposed to learn CSS the easy way?!" Well, I say you should learn it the way I, and countless others, have:
1. Download the Firefox browser
2. Install the Html Validator
(based on Tidy) 0.5.9 extension
3. Open one of your "old" HTML files
4. View the source, click the "Cleanup the page" button
5. Check the "replace FONT.....tags by CSS" box, then Refresh
Now you have a very neat and tidy piece of code, with all the CSS dirty work done for you! At this point you can copy & paste the resulting code and use it in your project and start figuring out what it's doing. I was amazed at how easily I was able to pick it up and start making changes on my own. When I wanted more information on a certain style it was a just a Google search away to many excellent CSS resources on the web. I find it much easier to learn CSS if I get to apply the modifications to the existing code that I've been working on, and I think you will too.
I hope you find this article helpful and if you follow these steps you should be able to add CSS to your web site design toolbox in no time!
About the Author
Written by Erich Bihlman, of Bihlman Consulting - PC and Internet Tutoring and Website Design in Prescott, Arizona. http://www.bihlman.com
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