Web Tips and Techniques

This is a site named, Dan’s Web Tips, which provides some useful information that Dan has learned and discovered over the years. These web development tips and techniques will hopefully assist you in creating a more compelling and functional website for your visitors. Dan says that many of these are not referred to on other learning sites or in books on web design and development. These web tips are targeted to those who are seeking some assistance with making their web sites better while staying away from potential problems.

• Introduction
  some words from Dan about HTML philosophy

• “How do I force…”
  you may have ask this type of questions, but the answer probably isn’t what you want to hear.

• Directories and Default Index Files
  some tips on structuring your web site

• Titles, LINK Tags, META Tags, and Search Engine Robots
  how to tell browsers and search engines what you site is about, using various META and LINK tags.

• Physical vs. Logical Markup
  information about these two basic types of HTML tags

• Validators
  how to find out if your web pages contain valid HTML code

• Brand X Browsers
  you need to account for other browsers besides Internet Explorer

• My Site Doesn’t Work In Netscape?
  more tips on making sure your pages are coded using valid HTML

• Graceful Degradation
  how to keep your web site accessible while at the same time using some advanced techniques

• Nesting
  learn the structure of the elements of an HTML web page

• Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
  using CSSs are now the recommended method to code web pages, as doing so separates structure from presentation

• Colors
  learn about colors and how to use them

• Languages
  Implementing a multilingual site

• Characters and Fonts
  find out about using special characters

• Images
  understand how to insert images and graphics to your web pages

• Sounds
  add sound, such as music, to your web site

• Tables
  here are suggestions for using tables in your HTML.

• Frames
  prompts you to think if you really need these in your site

• Auto-Refreshing Pages
  How to make a page load another one after a period of time

• Opening New Browser Windows
  some web sites want to do this with their external links

• HTML Comments
  learn how to correctly place comments into your HTML code

• Cleaning Up After WYSIWYG Editors
  sometimes after using a GUI web editor you will need to fix a few things

• Dealing with Changes
  what to consider and think about when redesigning your site

• URL
  find out what relative and absolute addresses are, and the best way to use each

• Domain Names
  a few words about domain names and what they are

• E-Mail
  let you web users provide feedback via email

• Server vs. Client
  learn what components of the Web are managed by server and which by client

• Miscellaneous
  here is some more information that may be useful

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