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          A L L   A B O U T   W E B   D E S I G N !(tm)


"A Twice Monthly Resource Guide For Web Designers and Webmasters" 


                   Issue #6     August 1, 1999

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             Editor: Linda Anderson (aka windsong)


All About Web Design!(tm) is a free, twice monthly newsletter
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                     THIS ISSUE'S CONTENTS...

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                         SPONSOR'S SPOT

                         EDITOR'S NOTES

                          BOOK REVIEW

                     SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLE
          "The Secrets to Building a Successful Web Site"
                               by 
                         Shelley Lowery 

         LINKS OF INTEREST TO WEB DESIGNERS AND WEBMASTERS

                      LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

                         CRITIQUE CORNER 

                     HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS

                     THIS ISSUE'S CLASSIFIEDS

          HOW TO ADVERTISE IN "ALL ABOUT WEB DESIGN!"(tm)

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                       EDITOR'S NOTES

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Welcome loyal readers and all new subscribers!
 
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The critique's are piling up. I am getting such a large 
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                       BOOK REVIEW

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    The Non-Designer's Web Book : An Easy Guide to Creating,
            Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site 
                      by Robin Williams
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The Non-Designer's Web Book is for anyone who has little or no 
background in design or the World Wide Web, but who still wants 
to participate in this communication explosion. If you are an 
aspiring Web designer, you'll learn why Web design is different 
from print design and how to take advantage of it, where to get 
or how to make Web graphics easily, how to use typography on the 
Web, how to get your finished Web site up on the World Wide Web,
and much, much more. 


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                 SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLE

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      The Secrets to Building a Successful Web Site

                   by Shelley Lowery 

If you're doing business on the internet, one of the most 
important aspects of your businesses success is your web 
site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter 
what product you're offering, your chances of success are 
minimal.

Before you begin, if you've never designed a web page, it 
would be wise to become familiar with HTML. (Hypertext 
Markup Language). A great place to start is NCSA Beginner's 
Guide to HTML:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

The main page of your web site should be under 60KB in 
size and take only 30 seconds to load. If a page takes too 
long to load, your potential customer will not wait. 
Ultimately costing you business.

Be cautious when selecting background and text colors. 
Busy backgrounds make text difficult to read and draw the 
attention away from the text. Always be consistent with 
your background theme on each page of your site.

Use minimal animated graphics. These can be very distracting 
and can cause your page to look unprofessional. 

Your main page should specifically let visitors know exactly 
what you are offering. How many times have you visited a 
site and never figured out exactly what they were selling? 

Try to avoid placing banner exchange banners at the top of 
your page. These can instantly take your customers or even 
be indexed by search engine robots. 

Limit the number of banners on your site to no more than 
two per page.

Always, include your contact information and try to reply 
to all comments and suggestions within 48 hours. This will 
help promote good business relationships.

ALWAYS check and double check your site for spelling 
errors.  If you have several errors, this will make your 
site appear to be unprofessional. If you are designing your 
site using an html editor, use spell check.

Continually add new content to your site. Give your visitors 
a reason to keep coming back. 

Design your site to be easily navigated.  Place your 
navigation links together at the top, bottom, left or right 
side 
of the page. Use tables to neatly align your links. If you 
must use frames, use them sparingly. Avoid making your 
visitors have to scroll from side to side to view your 
content. This can be very irritating. Offer your visitors 
a choice. Frames verses No Frames. Try to keep the number 
of clicks required to get from your main page to any other 
page on your site down to four. Keep in mind, your visitors 
may enter your site from pages other than your main. Always 
have good navigation links on every page.

If you must use Java on your site, use it sparingly. Offer 
your visitors a choice. Java verses No Java. Java can be 
slow and has a tendancy to crash browsers.

Make sure your images and links are working properly. 

Do not set sound to "autoplay" when someone visits your 
site. This can be very distracting.

View your site through different browsers and screen 
resolutions so you will see how your site will be viewed 
by your visitors.

Always strive to learn. Knowledge is the key to success.

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Shelley is the publisher of Marketing Adzine - Marketing, 
Advertising & Promotional solutions for the netrepreneur. 
Visit her site to subscribe.  http://www.web-source.net
Reach her at webmaster@web-source.net
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    Here is a nifty site of HTML tags and cross reference.
        http://www.willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html
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      Blocks of HTML code ready for you to cut and paste.
              http://www.megawebtools.com/cp.htm
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      U.S. Copyright Office Home Page - The informative 
         web site from the U.S. Library of Congress. 
               http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
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          Need a simple GIF graphic button in a hurry? 
             Here's a handy online button factory.
        http://www.lateraltech.com/onlinebuttonfactory/
               

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I listen to feedback. If you have particular likes or dislikes 
about "All About Web Design!"(tm) please let me know by sending 
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Robert writes:

I just want you to know that I enjoy your newsletter already. 
You know why? Because I sense your honesty! That is important 
to me. That is what I am trying to sell at "netmarketmall.com". 
(not up yet) In the four+ months of ten hour days searching 
the net for it. I find a great need for more of it! All the 
"GET RICH QUICK" sites are a bit much. Also, I think your web 
site has some of the most beautiful images online! So keep up 
the good work. I will definitely steer people to you when I go
online.  :-)

RobertSchaff

(editor's comments)

Thank you, Robert, for the kind words. I will try to be the
kind of editor you think I am. :) Drop me a line when you get
online and include your URL. I will include it in a future
issue of All About Web Design.


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Submit your site for a mini-evaluation. This will not be an
extensive critique, but will be a general analysis. We can
cover specific questions about your site, or analize just one
aspect if you wish. There will be only one or two critique's
published in each issue. If I receive more requests than that,
some may not be published. I will try to critique them all 
and send you the results. Requesting the review constitutes 
permission to publish the results. If you do not wish to have 
this published, then please do not request the review. 
mailto:editor@marketing-resources.com?subject=critique
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Laura wrote:
I would like my site critiqued....First a few words 
about my self:
   1-I am only 12
   2-Don't critique me as though I am 12
   3-I have only known HTML for 2 years
   4-Critique me as though I have known HTML for years

 http://members.aol.com/BongoFan/

Hi Laura:

I am so happy to learn that I have a budding young web 
designer among my subscribers. I remember being 12 once 
myself, so I will treat you as the young adult you are.

I took a look at your site. I am very impressed. You have
some really, really cute images. The only problem with 
that is that the busy backgrounds you use are detracting 
from your images. I think if you used a solid colored 
background, it would make your images really stand out.

Your backgrounds are very nice, I must admit. But if you 
are going to have text on a page, then a plain background 
makes the text much easier to read. 

Also, I am wondering why you don't have your links and the
large image following them, centered. I think it would look
better, since everything else is centered. 

Another thing I noticed is the blue border around some of 
the images, like your 'pooh' email image. The way to get 
rid of that is to include "border=0" in your image source 
tag. If you don't know how to do that, I will help.

I did look at your source code. Very nice job! Now all you
need is to include some meta tags and get your site listed
on the search engines.

All, in all, I think you have done a wonderful job on your
site. And to show you how much I enjoyed it, I am going to
make an image and send it to you. Feel free to use it on 
your site if you like it.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to critique your site.
Peace,
windsong


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Want to put a back button on your pages? Here is the Javascript:

     <FORM METHOD="post">
     <INPUT TYPE="button" 
     VALUE="BACK" 
     OnClick="history.go( -1 );return true;">
     </FORM>
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Here is a little bit of Cascading Style Sheets to play with.

If you want to remove underlines from certain links, but not 
all links on a page, simply add STYLE="text-decoration: none" 
to the tag starting the link. Example: 

     <a href="http://marketing-resources.com/"
     STYLE="text-decoration: none">Click Here</a>

To remove underlines from all links on your page, you can use 
the following style sheet tags. Place this code right after
your beginning head tag:

     <style>
     <!--
     a {text-decoration: none}
     -->
     </style>
             
                
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