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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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