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Tips for Building Your Web Site
- Ensure that pages download fast. Users typically don't want to wait to get
information. Large graphics can slow down this process. Try timing your home
page. It should totally download within 30 seconds.
- Add pictures of your staff to the Web site to give it a human touch.
- Ensure that your Web site is easy to navigate. A confusing site design can
turn off users and keep them from finding important information.
- IHR recommends using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to create Web site
consistency and to make maintenance easier. For further information:
- Ensure that your
site design is optimized for search engines.
- Ensure that you have included the appropriate
main pages to use for your Web site.
- Make sure your site is appropriately viewable for your intended audience.
The Internet
Statistics page lists links to stats that will tell you, for example,
what percentage of people have their monitors set at 800x600 screen
resolution. You can also review TheCounter.com.
Additionally, The Myth
of 800x600 explains the various methods of designing for different
screen display sizes (e.g., 800x600 screen resolution).
- AnyBrowser.com - provides online
tools to allow you to review your site's compatibility with various
browsers.
- Review other Web site designs to get ideas:
- WebsiteTips Color
section - lots of links to pages with color palettes and color tips
-
Forget the "What" - Focus on the "How" - write copy that helps you sell
- Which
Blog Is Best for You? - article discussing various Blogger software
- Methods for reducing harvesting of your email addresses from your Web
site:
- If you need a dictionary for your site developments:
- The following sites provides tools and tips for building your Web
site:
- IMS Web Tips - provides
hundreds of tips for developing and promoting Web sites.
- theSiteDoctor.com - offers website
usability testing and evaluation services for small businesses.
- Net Mechanic
- Jessett.com - helpful info for
developing a clean, user friendly site
- W3C CSS
Validation Service - validates your CSS, especially helpful when CSS
works in IE but not Netscape
- TidyGui - cleans
up your code and also adds the closing tags for the elements.
Additional detailed tips
1. Q: How to set up a table border that does not outline the cells, only
the outside of the table.
A - The easiest way I've found to create a table without the inside lines
(rules) is to use the "rules" attribute in the <table> tag.
Some useful values are "none" (no rules), "rows"
(horizontal rules between each row, and "cols" (vertical rules
between each column). So to create a table without any rules: <table
rules="none">.
"Frame" is another useful attribute for <table>. It
controls which of the four sides of the table have visible borders. Valid
values include void, above, below, hsides, vsides, rhs (right hand side),
and lhs (left hand side).
2. To avoid spambots harvesting your email addresses, where your e-mail
address might be someone@mail.com replace the @ sign with @
or
==> EMAIL ADDRESS HARVESTING
From: Sean Phelan <sphelan@sqcn.com>
Here's another tactic that I use. Click on the following link for an
example.
http://sqcn.com/mail/sqcn/com/sphelan If you're running your site on
Apache, make a "mail" directory and make an .htaccess file there,
with the following code.
##################################
RewriteEngine On
# Comment out lines by putting a "#" at the beginning
# Rewriting with a subject - mail/domain/com/user/subject
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mail/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.* mailto:%3@%1.%2?subject=%4 [R,L]
# Rewriting without a subject - mail/domain/com/user
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mail/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.* mailto:%3@%1.%2 [R] ##################################
The idea with this trick is that the e-mail address never really shows up
on the web page, so a harvester should miss it.
This only works with Apache, if you're hosting on NT, this trick will not
work.
3. Steve Krug book: Don't Make Me Think! - quote from a reader - "It's
cheap, recent and is very easy to read - it's concise enough to be read in
an afternoon."
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