Web Design
How can I design web sites (simple)?
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You can do it in a number of ways, but the ending result is the only
thing that matters.
If you are clueless about the technicalities of web design, Yahoo! GeoCities
has an online point-and-click PageBuilder that instantaneously uploads your
files. Microsoft Word can also save documents into HTML format. It is a good
idea to start playing with Word or GeoCities until you thoroughly understand
the concept of linking between files and so on.
Professional web sites are usually designed in PhotoShop but any image-editing software will do. Once you have the final layout, you must split it into HTML tables (Adobe ImageReady has built-in support). FrontPage and Dreamweaver are more advanced programs used for applying scripts or style sheets. You will eventually learn to do it all in pure HTML. Not to mention that having long pages of code on your screen looks impressive!
How can I design web sites (complex)?
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According to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) you can employ one of the three major approaches: HTML, CSS or both.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the classical solution for making non-animated,
content-based web pages. Layouts in HTML are usually built with tables that align the text and images into a grid.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language that webmasters apply
over HTML to maintain consistency in the typography, colors and so on.
Transitional HTML is basically plain HTML with CSS applied over it.
Modern web sites are produced entirely in CSS.
In contrast to the Transitional approach, CSS-based design depends on Cascading Style Sheets for positioning and layout in addition to preserving font and text features.
Web sites that rely on animation may be designed entirely in Flash or Java.
JavaScript and VisualBasic Script are programming languages that provide a
quick and relatively simple ways for enhancing static HTML.
Large-scale dynamic web sites are usually built in server-sided languages like
PHP, ASP or Perl.
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