GOLDEN RULES & WEB TIPS #
Golden Rules:
- NEVER use spaces in names of Files and Folders (it
stops browsers from finding them).
- ALL html files should be appended with .htm or .html
- and it’s easiest for you if you to stick to one or the other.
- Always type (a non-breaking space) into
empty cells in tables (this allows the Netscape browser to recognise the
background colours etc.)
Good advice:
- Names of Files and Folders and html code is best typed
all in lower case (the internet generally isn’t case sensitive but just
occasioally you come up against something that is so it’s best to be consistent).
- Web pages are best designed to fit an 800X600 pixel
monitor - i.e. pages should be 750 pixels wide (probably the majority
of monitors are set at 1028X768 but there are still a lot of 800X600 ones
about especially in colleges and offices, so pages should be designed to
fit.
- Test your Website on as many versions of as many Browsers
as possible. Most people use Explorer, Netscape or the AOL Browser and
it’s best to get your site working on version 4.5 or better.
- The Netscape Browser is always worth having on your
computer. Netscape is great for downloading most things, but
it knocks spots off Explorer downloading music files and downloading
complete webpages (where it puts all the images in a special folder
making it easy to access images and remote files such as style sheets and
frames). Netscape also has it’s own HTML author called Netscape Composer
(a much more limited, but free, equivalent to Dreamweaver, Go Live or Frontpage).
You can download or order it from http://www.netscape.co.uk/netscape/
. If you’ve got a pay as you go connection
you’re best off ordering.
- On Line Support - If you’re lookiing to do something
new you can usually find what you want on line. I typed in “HTML coluur”
and Google threw up a whole range of useful pages. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html
is a really good one as it tells you which colours
you can call by name rather than typing in the hexadicimal code (e.g.
<color="orange"> instead of <color=”#FFA500”> )
- http://www.geocities.com/richware4/webdesign
- This is an on line course on how to build pages in HTML and Dreamweaver.
- [email protected]
- my e-mail address if you need it.