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Volume II - Issue 2002-06-25
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Designing Professional Web Pages - by Joanne Glasspoole
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If your Web site doesn't project a professional and
polished image to your visitors, your credibility and
that of your products and services will suffer. Image
is everything -- especially online where your competitor
is only one mouse click away!
Before your first HTML code is written, you will need to
consider your Web site's navigational structure, color
scheme and page layout. Is your content developed?
If not, who is going to write it?
Once you have done the necessary pre-planning, then the
fun part begins -- coding your HTML pages.
Following are some steps to consider when laying out your
Web pages:
1.
I highly recommend that you try to get your home page to
fit on one screen. Ideally, people shouldn't have to
scroll down to see what your site has to offer. You may
need to make your graphics smaller, but that's okay.
Smaller graphics mean a quicker download time.
2.
Be sure to check your pages at all the various screen
resolutions. Although only a small percentage of users
have their monitors set at 640x480, you will want to
make sure your site looks good at that resolution. I
design my Web pagesat 800x600, which is the average
resolution. However, more and more users have their
computer monitors set at higher resolutions, such as
1024x728. You will see that your pages will look
radically different depending on the resolution.
I personally have been horrified at how ugly my
"beautiful" pages look on different computer screens.
3.
Browsers are another very important consideration.
Netscape and Internet Explorer both perform the same
function -- display Web pages -- but the way they do
so is strikingly different. Your code needs to be very
clean and pretty much flawlessto display correctly on
Netscape. If you miss even one table tag (e.g., you
forget to close a <td> tag), you will be mighty
surprised when you get nothing but a blank page on
Netscape. Internet Explorer is much more forgiving.
It "assumes" what you meant to do. Netscape, on the
other hand, is unassuming. If it doesn't understand
your code, it simply will not display it.
NOTE: An excellent site to check your HTML code for
browser compatibility, as well as screen size, is
Anybrowser.com at http://www.anybrowser.com/
4.
You will no doubt want to employ JavaScript and DHTML
on your site because it's both functional and cool.
However, those technologies work better on Internet
Explorer than they do on Netscape. Many of the scripts
that you can grab for free at sites like Dynamic
Drive DHTML ( http://www.dynamicdrive.com/) and Website
Abstraction ( http://www.wsabstract.com/) are written
exclusively for Internet Explorer, so you will need to
be very careful when deciding what to use on your Web
site. For example, on one of my sites I use a
JavaScript to display the date and time. This script
is supposed to work on both Internet Explorer and
Netscape; however, a couple of days ago I noticed that
the year on Netscape was 100 versus 2000. A 1,900 year
variance is a pretty significant difference!
5.
The titles on all of your Web pages need to be consistent
-- not only in font style, size and color but also
alignment. Make sure the spacing between the title
and the first paragraph is consistent throughout your
site. Make sure your spacing is uniform on all pages.
6.
If your navigation is dependent on graphics (e.g., image
maps, icons, buttons, Java, JavaScript), some of your
visitors will have a problem getting around your site
if their browser doesn't display graphics, or if they've
chosen to turn graphics off on their browser settings
for faster surfing. It is extremely important to provide
text links in addition to graphic links. All of your
users will see your text links, plus text loads faster
than graphics.
7.
It is an excellent idea to make your logo a clickable
link back to your home page from all of the pages of
your Web site. Many visitors expect to be able to use
the logo to go back home. Don't forget to also include
a text link to your home page.
These are only a few considerations in designing your
Web pages, but they are very important.
Don't let your beautiful pages look ugly on your
visitor's computer screen.
If you are like me, you will find these issues among the
most challenging aspects of designing professional
Web sites.
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Joanne Glasspoole is a Webmaster and freelance Web
designer. Visit her Web site for Internet and technology
news, insightful articles, and links to excellent
Webmaster resources to help you grow your online
business. http://www.glasspoole.com
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