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Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I have never done this before, so am struggling with help topics on google and setting one up slowly. Does anyone have any tips on doing it or webpages on how to do it that they would recomend. Any help would be appreciated.

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

that's like asking for tips on writing a document in MS Word.

What do you want it to look like?

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Heres a free online web design course. Maybe helpful?

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Thanks for the above tips.

AbbeFaria · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: Gangnam

I agree with the last guy, colors are important. Pick two or three main colors, whatever kind of mood you want to set, and go with it. If you want it cute and girly, go with pink and white, or pink and red or anything that you define as cute. If you want serene and airy, do it in shades of light blue. Spring-like, use warm colors-Yellows and oranges. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Do not, under any circumstance, use yellow text on a white background. This is punisable by death in some circles. If your website is text-heavy, contrast is the key. Dark background, light text. Light background, dark text. It seems like common sense, but you'd be surprised by how many first-timers make that mistake. Also avoid using busy images as a background, it can make it hard to read the text. Solid colors are a safe bet.

Also, unless you're a 12 yr old girl, do not fill your site with every little bouncy gif you can find and scatter them about at random intervals. Don't include sound unless there's a way to turn it off. It's best to avoid flashing/bouncing/hopping gifs altogether. Don't put any type of java script that makes a gif follow the mouse and leave trails. That can sometimes conflict with browsers and cause the browser to crash. Not to mention that it's also just really friggin annoying.

Don't put pictures on there that haven't been compressed. In Korea, where everyone is highspeed, this isn't so much of an issure really, but the rest of the world is not as highly connected. In the States for instance, something around less then 20% of homes have highspeed. A picture imported directly from a digital camera can be up to 18 megabytes or more. That will take hours to load on dial-up. Another thing to consider is that if it takes to long to load, people will simply close it and move on. Internet attention span is around 15 seconds.

Keep things organized in a simple way. If you've got multiple pages and have a little menu bar, make sure it's in the same place on each page. A general rule of thumb in web design is that no page should be more than 2 clicks away from any other page.

These are all basic rules that should keep your website looking pleasant and user-friendly. If you've got any specific questions, PM me or just post them here. I'm a bit rusty since I haven't designed websites on a regular basis for a couple of years, but I haven't forgotten everything.

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splok · Joined: 30 Jan 2006

This is a pretty open ended topic, but here are some links that might help a bit.

There are countless tutorials online that you can find by searching Google, but if you're just beginning, many of them will seem very intimidating. Don't let this discourage you though. If you keep diging around, you'll be able to find a nice explanation for just about anything you need. To get you started, this site some pretty good tutorials in their how-to library:
http://www.webmonkey.com/

You'll probably also want an html editor. Most people would probably say that it's better to learn the code yourself before using one, and that's probably true. However, depending on your situation, you may just want some quick and dirty results. For very quick and dirty, there is an option in Word to "save as html." Its not an elegant solution, but if you just need to get some information online, it will work. Here is a link to a free html editor. I've never used it and can't vouch for its effectivness, but it might help you get started. http://www.download.com/HTML-Kit/3000-2048_4-4687625.html?tag=lst-6-6

You'll probably also want a image editor. For simple things, Paint might sufice, but you'll probably want something better at some point. Here is a link to GIMP. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it (and it's free): http://www.download.com/The-GIMP/3000-2192_4-10495797.html?tag=lst-0-10

You may also need a ftp program to move files from your computer to your online space. If so, here is a free one. http://www.download.com/SmartFTP-Client/3000-2160_4-10502240.html?tag=lst-3-7

As the other posters have said, if you have any more specific problems or questions, it may be easier to help you out. Although, as a general rule, when in doubt, err on the side of simplicity. I'll take a tragicly simple site that is very functional over a flashy site that isn't very user friendly every time.

diablo3 · Joined: 11 Sep 2004

Open a page you like, and then using the Internet Explorer options, go to the View menu and choose Source. You will see a Notepad window with HTML code, then you can apply/add/change what you like. Remember though, this works only with static HTML features.