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Web Page Design
Start with Content and Structure will
follow
Guidelines:
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Focus on CONTENT
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Next, focus on HTML structure
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Focus on CONTENT
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Don't absorb yourself on how the page looks with your
browser, on your screen, color depth, etc., because you need to...
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Focus on CONTENT
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Check-check-check with various browsers, machine
architectures, ....
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Focus on CONTENT
For page structure:
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Use the proper structure tags for the appropriate
items. HEADINGs for headings, LISTs for lists.
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Remember BREAKs and PARAGRAPHs are two different
things.
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Start using CSS and avoid deprecated HTML features.
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Use a consistent 'style' with recurring themes
(colors, image maps, navigational aids, etc.) throughout your site
For Page Content:
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Don't bury information in a block of text (Example)
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Each page should stand on its own (Example)
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Don't over emphasize (Example)
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Don't over link. Don't 'Click' 'Here' under
penalty of death (Example).
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Use 'ANCHOR's judiciously (the last example used
anchors).
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