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Website Design 3
Fine Tuning
Well now that you are firmly on your way to understanding how to build your
webpages, you can learn more about making them easier to navigate, fun to visit
and readable to All (Or Most) Browsers! Yes it's true... web browsers
read HTML Code
slightly differently from each other and at best you can design your pages so that
the MAJORITY of
surfers will "see" your pages as you intended! NOTE: According to current
surveys, about 55% of all Web Browsing is done with Microsoft's Internet
Explorer Browser IE5+! HINT: If your webpages render as you want them to, on Internet Explorer,
you are doing pretty well... However you need to check your pages on Firefox, it has become quite popular too... So here are some extra techniques that
will spring you to the front of webpage design!
- Use Drop Down Menus (Like the one above)
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Which Are Made Using HTML Forms Run By JavaScript) on your pages to save valuable page
space...
use them for navigation or for whatever you feel they will better enhance the look and
function of your page but don't overuse them... perhaps one or two per page!
- INTERNAL LINKING is a good way to transport visitors
from one place on a page to another place on the same page or to a specific place on another
page!
- Use Font Size, Font Color,
Font Weight, Font Style and CAPITALIZATION to
Emphasize various headings or important
text on your pages! It won't slow your load time like Images might!
- If you don't write JavaScript then Copy & Paste Some
Scripts to your source code to spice up your pages...
- As you add new content or change the design of your pages, be absolutely certain to
Validate the page over again!
- Check all your pages using other browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla,
Opera, Firefox etc.) ...you can Download many of them for FREE at www.Download.com and make the necessary code changes to get
the pages to render as closely as possible to your intended design on all of them. You may be able to use
your local Library Computer if you are on a WebTV and don't own a PC... Otherwise we can
do a page critique for you and save you the bother!
Have any Questions just...
Continue with this design series...use the
"Tricks 1" link below...
 Design 2---Tricks 1 
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