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...
- Decide what pages you will have
- Decide how your user will navigate from one page to the next
- 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.
- Create a style sheet
and attach to your pages
- 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.
- Check it with vischeck
to make sure colour blind readers can see it ok
- If any problems modify design and colours until design is ok
- Test site on different browsers to see how they look - IE and Netscape
- If problems, redesign and test again till ok in all
browsers
- Test on different computer systems - Window and Mac
- If problems, redesign and test again till it works
on all systems
- Evaluate site using real users - watch them to see if they are having
difficulties with anything, particularly navigation or colour, is the
content relevant?
- Modify site to ease any difficulties
- Finish creating pages
- Get server space - free space with no ads is available
from atspace.com
- Upload site to internet
- Submit to search engines via the open
directory project
If you want to learn more about making web sites, check out the Dreamweaver
tutorial...