Web Design is a gigantic subject. There are so many aspects to web design that it is absolutely impossible to cover the entire subject in one blog. Not only are there an endless amount of sub topics, design in itself is so very subjective that any one tutorial or definition can be interpreted in as many ways as there are people blogging about it. Design in itself is abstract, it covers every realm; clothing, architecture, industry, advertising, the body, the mind, and of course the web. Web design covers not only the layout and imagery used to make a website, it also deals with the organization and presentation of textual content, the software and tools used as well as the psychology of perception and human behavior. All and all, design is the attempt to guide the perception of the observer to whatever end the designer intends and website design is no different.
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Are you on a tight budget and looking for good advise on how to make money online free? Perhaps you’re not even sure what your website should be about in the first place. Should you build a website from scratch? Should you use a WordPress blog? What about one of the free setups like Blogger? Sound familiar? Let me introduce you to Chewie, he is big and furry and knows his way around a star fighter like no one else I know. This hairball, er, guy, has been around for quite a while and is in it for the long haul. His new site, whatawookie.com, will answer these questions and many more and if your serious about your website you’ll check his out.
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A CMS or Content Management System is a type of web site that allows the user to edit content without having to know HTML. Standard blogging software like WordPress is basically a CMS that displays the content in reverse chronological order. On that note here is a very cool technique using PHP, HTML, JavaScript and a very cool, free, text editor called TinyMCE. This technique will show you how to build a CMS or content management system for a website that stores the content in text files.There are definitely better ways to do this but I am keeping it as simple as possible to show the technique in its most basic form.
Tags cms, content management, html, PHP, programming
On site seo (Search Engine Optimization) is very simple, does not take much effort and should be done if you intend to rank well in the search engine results pages. If you are using WordPress it is very easy however if you make your own websites or use a template system that does not have all the bells and whistles that WordPress does you will in fact need to know a little HTML.
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This is the bigger, and better version of How To Make A Website For Beginners. Unlike the previous version this will include CSS and utilize other markup tags such as the Unordered List and the Div, making it more like a real website. We will also explore setting up a working environment to help keep files organized.
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Learning how to make a website may seem a bit like re-inventing the wheel however, knowing the basics of how to make a website will definitely be an asset. Even if you plan on using a free blog service such as blogger or WordPress, knowing just a little HTML and CSS will enable you to tweak your code and personalize your online presence. Or if you are like me, you can become obsessed and spend everyday and most nights in front of a computer screen trying to keep up with the never ending onslaught of new ways to build and use websites.
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Free?? Yes. Photoshop… not quite but holy crap it’s close. At first glance Sumo Paint looks a lot like my old friend Adobe Photoshop; layers, text, shape tools, swatches, shading and stroke effects, bezier tools, pretty much everything you’d expect from a drawing tool. After playing around for a very short time I found it is more like Illustrator but I have barely scratched the surface here.
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A nofollow link is one that will not be followed by a search engine robot/spider. This is accomplished by placing the rel=”nofollow” attribute in an anchor tag. This can be useful when you are optimizing a website and do not want to give the destination web page credit for the backlink.
However, in many cases you do want to give the credit, also referred to as Google Juice or Link Love. If you have a blog and want to receive comments it’s a good idea to have the links followable otherwise most bloggers will have no reason to comment because the main purpose, for most, is to get the backlink.
Tags html, nofollow
Setting up hosting and reserving domain names is that whole other realm that you will need to be familiar with if you intend to make a website.
A few terms you will become familiar with:
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FTP, SMTP, HTTP, IDE, KFC, what the… In 350 years the entire English language will look like assembler code… a large string of 1,2, and 3 letter acronyms with weird punctuation. In the meantime, File Transfer Protocol or just FTP is one of the foundation blocks of the mechanics behind the internet. Its the programming contraption used to… transfer files.
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