It’s not often I run across a site where I say to myself, "Yep. This is exactly how it should be designed and makes total sense. Awesome." This is one of those kind of sites:This, ladies and gentlemen, is how a news web site should look. It is nothing short of a total win in design, form and function. Hotter stories have bigger text, lesser...

When it comes to TLDs (top level domains, i.e. COM, NET, ORG, etc.) on the internet, several attempts have been made to generate the popularity of COM. All have failed, but that doesn’t mean the people who give us alternatives to COM stop trying. One of the weirder TLDs out there is TEL. This is billed as a mobile calling card of sorts.. I think. Right off...

Before Google, the way people used to check to see if their internet was working properly was to load up yahoo.com. I remember those days. It was a long, long time ago. The only thing people are buzzing about when it comes to Yahoo! these days is how much nobody cares about them anymore. The last big thing they did which caused a huge wave of nostalgia is when...

Why would you want to block sites? Maybe you have kids you don’t want going to specific places on the internet. Maybe you’re trying to cut down on data usage because of a bandwidth cap forced upon you by your ISP. No matter the reason, people do have need to block specific sites from time to time. It’s an unfortunate truth that there...

The definition of a web site that refuses to upgrade is one that does not "understand" anything other than Internet Explorer 6 or 7. For many this is a constant source of frustration for three very good reasons:Internet Explorer 8 has been in existence for almost seven months at the time of this writing. The administrators of these "IE...

Some people may be under the impression that if a web site loads slowly and/or causes your browser to crash that it might be your computer’s fault it happened. Not necessarily. There are several things that people interpret as a fault with their computer when in fact it isn’t. Things that are not your fault when problems happen loading web sites Web...

Yahoo, yes (that Yahoo) made some significant changes to their main web site. While this angered some, to those I say this: Yahoo is not Google, and I’m glad it’s not. If you’re expecting Y! to be another Google clone, it isn’t. And it shouldn’t be. The first thing I do on Yahoo is switch over to the compact view and change the...

The purpose of a team web site is for organization and communication. You may lead a team, be it a gaming team, bowling team, soccer team, etc. and are in need of a central location for all team activities. A web site takes care of that. So the next time a member needs any information about anything going on with the team, you point them to the site. These are...

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Now that we have used a table to create a basic layout for our website, we can expand the site to more than one web page. Watch below as I show you how to do this. After all, almost all sites have more than one page involved. [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/introhtml/multi_page_site.flv 610 364] [/hidepost]

Tables can obviously be used to lay out data in an organized way. However, you can also use tables to create the overall structure of your website. This video below will explain and show how to do this. [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/introhtml/tables_for_layout.flv 610 364] [/hidepost]

Now that this course has provided the basics on hand-coding your HTML, we will delve into the world of WYSIWYG editors. Using an editor like this will allow you to create your web pages in a much quicker fashion and in a style much more similar to a word processor. You can accomplish much of what you need without doing any HTML coding by hand. [hidepost=1] Now,...

What makes the Internet into the “world wide web”? Or more accurately, what makes it a “web”? It is links. See, if there is a web page floating out there on a server with no links pointing to it, it might as well be completely off the Internet. Nobody can get to it! It is links which link one web page to another and it is links which form...

Tables are something you will probably need to make use of on your web pages. You may use them to simply structure your data for easy viewing. Some people actually use tables to form the basic layout of their pages. I will address using tables for design later in this course. For now, let me simply introduce the HTML needed to create simple...

Often, the difference between a “blah” looking webpage and a good looking one comes down to the images used. Images are used not only to accent your text, but also for the actual design and layout of your web page. We will get into how to actually design a web page a little later in this course, but for now it is necessary to know how to insert...

OK, before we get going with creating your own website, there are a few things to think about and gather together. An Idea Before creating your own website, you need to have some idea of exactly what you are trying to do with it and what you would like to accomplish. You can consult the Reasons To Have a Website lesson in this course for more information on the...

The first step to getting into this field is to understand how it works. Here are some questions that I have found many people simply don’t understand:How does the internet work? When I put up a website, where does it go? When I enter a website address into my browser, what is happening?I have talked to people about this and the confusion is definitely...

Before we begin in earnest, let’s talk about why you might want to have a website. There are a lot of different types of sites out there and the great part about the internet, in general, is that it is a free medium to do with what you want. Some of the common things people do on their websites today are: [hidepost=1]A Company Website. More and more...