Short Web Design Tutorials For Beginners
Web Design Tutorials
- Make A Simple Page
- Make A Simple List
- Make A Link
- How To Make An Email Link
- How To Embed An Image
- How To Hide Content
- How To Check For Errors In Your Page
Lists, tables, links, images and forms. If you've only spent 15 minutes online in your entire life you have probably seen them all even tho' you might have not known that.
The nice thing about making web pages is that an advanced degree in computer science is not required. Far from it. Creating good web pages is something we regular people can do.
That's because there's an easy pattern to learn and once you do you'll be on your way to becoming a Jedi Web master. That's more fun than being a nerd!!
In this How To section Your Friendly Web Design Instructor, Bud Kraus, gives you a few simple tutorials design for people who have never made a web page, tried but quit or did it so long ago they forgot how to do it.
In these tutorials we will use Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) to provide the structure of our page. For all styling matters - layout and typography - we will use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Here Are The Things You'll Need - And Need To Know How To Do - To Do These Tutorials.
1. Notepad (TextEdit or Simple Text for Mac users)
You may not know that the most basic type of word processor - a text editor - is all you need to create XHTML and CSS.
If you don't know where Notepad is on your computer just do a search for "Notepad" and you;re sure to find it. Our friends at Microsoft have been packing that liitle application in to all windows machines since the dawn of civilization.
Mac users can rely in Text/Edit. It's very similar to Notepad as both are stripped down. bare bones word processors which is exactly what we want.
If you're comfortable using Dreamweaver that's ok too. Just make sure you also have the Code View open.
2. A Web Browser
This one is even easier because chances are you are reading this information through a web browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Safari are the most common varieties but there are many others.
3, Multi-task
That's the fancy word for working with two applications at the same time. Which two applications? Your text editor and your web browser.