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What I’m Doing
Design 101: Creating a Website
So you want to make a website? Anyone can throw together a simple site using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web, but that usually results in non-valid code and a very “cheap-looking” website. Taking a design and turning it into raw, standards-compliant code may seem like a daunting task, but after you get through this tutorial, you’ll be using “DIV”s and styling with CSS like you’ve known it your whole life! That’s right, I said DIVs, no tables here (don’t worry if you don’t know what a div is)! This is a massive 4-part tutorial that will teach you the very fundamentals of design and give you the tools you need to make professional, high-caliber websites. It will walk you through conceptualizing the website, designing it, turning it into valid XHTML/CSS and lastly coding it to the blogging software WordPress. We’ll make a web designer out of you yet!
Creating a Website (Part 4: The Coding)
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the final segment of this tutorial series. In the first part, we conceptualized our website. Then we designed it. After that, we wrote the XHTML and CSS for it. Now it’s time to turn it into a WordPress template using some PHP.
Getting Rid of the Dotted Border on Links
FireFox’s default stylesheet adds a dotted border around images when they are clicked. It can really detract from a website’s design, especially when the image is indented and the border comes all the way from the left of the page. How can you remove that border? It’s actually really easy to do.
Using a Reset CSS
A good way to reduce browser inconsistencies when it comes to styling your website is using a reset stylesheet. This will remove browser defaults such as margins, padding, line heights, font sizes, headings, etc. Here is a generic reset stylesheet you can use, but I suggest you modify it for your needs.
Creating Contact Forms With XHTML
Here’s another nice tutorial for beginners. In this one we’ll write the markup for a simple contact form that you could use on a website. Nothing too complicated or fancy, but we’ll talk about how we can add some nice effects to it easily using CSS. We’ll use PHP to have the form send an email when it’s filled out. I’ll also talk about what we can do for form validation.
10 Things Every Web Developer Needs
There are a lot of tools that are vital to the development of a website. This list is intended to condense all of the many different things a web developer needs into just 10 resources. Think of this list as a web developer’s survival kit. These are the essential items in no particular order.
Creating a Website (Part 3: The Markup)
In the previous part of this series, we created a design for a travel blog in Photoshop. Now it’s time to turn that design into code. Open up your web development application (I’ll be using Dreamweaver) and open up the design in Photoshop and let’s begin (if you skipped the design segment and would like to download the PSD click here).
CSS Hover Pseudo-Class
This is my first post in over a week, but I’ve been pretty busy lately. That being said, I haven’t had much time to work on the coding portion of the website tutorial.
CSS pseudo-classes are used to add effects to selectors. In this article we’ll discuss the “hover” pseudo-class and how I used it to achieve the hover effect on my home page. The most common use of :hover is for hyperlinks. When you move your mouse over a link and the text color changes, it has a :hover pseudo-class acting on it. Pseudo-classes work in this form:
Creating a Website (Part 2: The Design)
In the previous part of this tutorial, we conceptualized our website, which is a travel blog, by deciding on a color scheme and structure and by brainstorming some ideas. Now it’s time for the fun part, designing! Open up Photoshop and let’s start. (more…)
5 CSS Tips and 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
I found this article today discussing a handfull of ways to improve your CSS code. It’s mostly tips that help make your code more readable, but it also talks about “resets” and why you should write your XHTML before you touch a stylesheet. Considering I’ve got a website coding tutorial coming down the line (although I’m still working on the design part of that tutorial series), I encourage you to check out the article here. (more…)
