Well well well, heeellooo there people! I'm a newbie here. I'm from Singapore. Hope you people forgive me for my intrusion into your space. If there's any mistake on my part in this forum; please do forgive me as I would to those who do the same. And I would like to thank one and all for your kind assistance while I'm here. Thank you.
Here are a number of things I learned during my newbie stage of website design: * Practice, practice, practice * Make hundreds of web pages. * Learn something new with each web page. * Restrict your page sizes to 500 words per page. People often do not like scrolling down. If you have more than 500 words, break it into two pages with a link at the bottom right-hand corner to the next page. * Learn about external style sheets as quickly as possible. * KISS -- Keep It Sweet and Simple. Have lots of white space between paragraphs and graphics. Make sure that the paragraphs are short (say, 2 sentences). Do not have a bunch of movement (Flash or blinking text). That can really be a distraction. * Have lots of contrast between the text and background colors. * When I was a newbie, my biggest problem was browser compatibility. Things would look beautiful on Firefox but ugly on IE (Internet Explorer). After months of research, I solved that problem by using a library of code called YUI 3.0. If you go to the freewebsitedesigntutorial website mentioned below, each template has YUI 3.0 built into the head of the source code. * Your titles and H1 headings should both summarize your page content in a few words. Remember that your titles and H1 headings both tell the search engines what your page is all about. Put a lot of thought into them. * You learn new website design techniques by * - Using the forums * - Using W3Schools. For instance, if you want to learn about changing font sizes with HTML, enter this into your search engine: w3schools font sizes. * - Putting freewebsitedesigntutorial dot com into your favorites and using it often. * - Using the search engines. * - Having one or more word processing files in which you enter all of your new information. At the top of each one, have an index so that you can retrieve anything you have learned. * Never give up.
hi Voohoo! Me also new here like you, would you be my friend at this community? My name is shawn Chin. Waiting for your prompt reply! Have a Nice day
Dear Designer777: Thanks for the info. Appreciate it. But web design is way out for me. Its just too technical.
O h heello shawnchin: I dont see why not. Its better than being enemies. Sorry I couldnt answer sooner. I'm just checking out DP. Mine place is wild. I thought was wild but this place take the cake. Thanks for being my friends but I seldom come here.