Further Information

The full list of HTML tags is available from W3's Index of Elements

The full list of HTML attributes is available from W3's Index of Attributes

A W3C (X)HTML Validator is available is check your (X)HTML code to make sure it is correctly written

A W3C CSS Validator is available is check your CSS code to make sure it is correctly written

When making a website...

1. Decide what pages you will have
2. Decide how your user will navigate from one page to the next
3. Create a design in an imaging editing package (Fireworks / Photoshop) incorporating the navigation you've designed. Get a trial version of Macromedia Fireworks from the macromedia website.
4. Create a style sheet and attach to your pages
5. Test design on different colour depths to see how it looks. You can change the amount of colours your monitor uses by changing the desktop properties settings.
6. Check it with vischeck to make sure colour blind readers can see it ok
7. If any problems modify design and colours until design is ok
8. Test site on different browsers to see how they look - IE and Netscape
9. If problems, redesign and test again till ok in all browsers
10. Test on different computer systems - Window and Mac
11. If problems, redesign and test again till it works on all systems
12. Evaluate site using real users - watch them to see if they are having difficulties with anything, particularly navigation or colour, is the content relevant?
13. Modify site to ease any difficulties
14. Finish creating pages
15. Get server space - free space with no ads is available from atspace.com
16. Upload site to internet
17. Submit to search engines via the open directory project

If you want to learn more about making web sites, check out the Dreamweaver tutorial...

created & designed by Vivienne Trulock for ilikecake.net

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