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What Does HTML Do and What Does it Mean?
There are a lot people out there building thier own websites not understanding what it is they are actually doing.
It is important to have a general concept of what all that coding is and what it means. The coding used to build a website is known as HTML. This is how a browser reads a webpage and then interupts it into what people see in the window.
HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language.
Some Basic Things You Can Do with HTML
-change the fonts style, color, underline it, and Italic and bold it
-change the font color
-create a list
UL – for unordered list
OL – for ordered list
LI – for each line in the list
-create a table to organize your images or create a chart on your site
table – starts table
tr – starts table row
td – starts table cell
remember to end each cell and each row as well with a hash mark before the tag
-create a text link
text links are great
-add an image
img src
-create simple contact forms that include labels, radio buttons, and push buttons
-quote someone
blockquote – quoted text
-insert special characters and fractions into your text or blog post
these are just a small sampling;
&trade ™ trademark sign
&hearts ? heart
@ @ at sign
© © copyright
® ® registered trademark
¶ ¶ paragraph sign
¼ ¼ one-fourth
½ ½ one-half
¾ ¾ three-fourths
With HTML you can do a lot of different things with it within your website or even your blog. You can put images on your website and movies and video.
There is so much you can do with HTML to make your website more attractive and appealing to visitors.
But I must now caution you with this. Even tho many have found really cool things they can do with their websites using HTML coding, that it has made their sites way too wild and hard to find things.
Most people today will click away from these fancy sites, and instead be more willing to read a website that is simple and clean.
Keep this in mind while you are building your website, DO NOT get carried away with all the neat things you can do with HTML.
Keep it simple and clean.
To better understand HTML and how all this works, I highly recommend One Hour HTML
This little piece of software will save you hundreds of hours and money in learning HTML
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HTML Editor Some Common Design Principles
A lot of people out there today are trying their best to design their own websites without knowing what they are doing. They aren’t using the right HTML Editor or coding things properly for success. There are many other things to know before just building a website, these are common principles most professional web designers know and use.
Your Website Color -
One thing a lot of people do not realize, that website colors make a big difference on how their visitors will react to their offers. There are some colors that will make people comfortable and at ease, while there are other colors that are difficult for people to read and even hurt their eyes and they have to strain to read the website.
Using these colors will make people click a way from your website before even reading one single word. Keep to using only two different main colors for your website and make sure the colors do not clash. The best put together websites, are the ones that use a simple white background with black text, this is the least likely to harm or strain someones’ eyes.
Your Website should stay in Balance -
Maintaining balance in your website can be done using colors that will complement each other. Some common colors people use is a dark color in the background and a lighter color in the foreground. Don’t make all your text different colors as this might look good to you, but it can make the text difficult for others to read. Always design your website with our visitors in mind.
Putting Lines in your Website -
Almost all websites use horizontal lines to separate different parts of the website. You can change the colors to these lines easily enough. Make sure that you do not over due with these lines, it can be confussing to your visitors. You can have the horizontal lines and even have vertical lines to separate things. You will see the vertical lines that will separate the navigation information that is nested on the left or right hand side, this makes it easier for visitors to understand what is the actual website and what the navigation is.
Making Text Stand Out More -
With most websites it is common to make part of your text bigger than the rest, as this is what you want your visitors to notice first. Don’t make this part too big or loud with color, it will be more annoying and visitors might just skip over it. Having things just a bit bigger and a different color (commonly red) a visitors eyes are drawn to this part and they will read this to get the idea of the text to follow.
One easy way to create this and all effects of a website is by using a good and reliabe HTML Editor. Be careful in choosing one as not all are the same. A lot of HTML Editors don’t always let you put your own pictures into the template and you can only use the templates they offer.
So when choosing an HTML editor, research what it does and does not do.
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