- Must have a
theme for your website
- this one discuss what are your
point
or objective building your website.
- What are
the content and your concept
you would like to show to the
audience.
- Is it entertainment? art? culture? etc.
- Start
drawing your page-layout sketches
- Draw your page layout from index
page
until your contact page.
- Hierarchies
sketches is a must
- Collect all
the information, data and
material before you start
building your
website
- This is easier for you to put all
the
elements at one time, so you don't
need
to download or look for another stuff
to
put into your website.
- Make sure
you calculate your of graphics
and other files in your website
so that other
users can download your homepage
fast.
- Especially graphic, make sure you use
below
14.5 kb size of file, for example,
see Yahoo! or Hotmail website.
- Avoid
pop-up JavaScript
- It disturb other users visual, it
makes
more complicated to surf your website.
- If you
use a free server, try Geocities or
Areal City.
Geocities banner looks cute...
- But then again, avoid using
banner.
- I hate pop ups sponsers!!!
- Make sure
your design is well-balance
and easy to navigate. Don't put too
much
button, yet. sort the navigation
into
sections/level, so people won't get
bored or
confused with your navigation.
- Use Status Text to describe the
function
of the link or ALT name your button.
- Use table
to arrange your page layout and
design, so it will be
organized, clean and
systematic.
- Make your
website alive with active
graphics or interactivity such as
Flash.
- Use flash is better, especially for your
website introduction page or while
loading.
- Make sure
you organized your website
by creating a sub-directory for
buttons,
images, sounds or download.
- ALWAYS name
your first page as
INDEX.HTML in your
root/directory.
- This one is to make sure when
people
don't access your index files.
- Always keep
your website looks nice
and simple.
- Hired any
editor to edit your text in your
website, especially your
language,
grammars and spellings.
- Use
Arial, Verdana, Helvetica and
Sans-serif. Times Roman is too
common.
- for example,
<FONT
face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
- Try to make
your website preview in
full screen. 800x600 is just
cool.
- Millions of website use 800x600 screen
display
panels.
- Again, use
flash ! Its very cool to have a
website with FLASH. Put some
sound,
animation and life.
- There are over 22,000,000 million
website
uses flash technology.
Use shape
tweening and
motion.
But not too heavy though.
- Make
sure you learn basic
HTML, like:
Title
-
<title>Welcome To My Homepage Everyone!</title>
Link
-
<a href="yourlink.html">
Image
-<img border="0"
src="graphic.gif" width="1" height="1">
Background Image
- <Body
background="background.jpg">
Sound
background
- <bgsound src="music.wav"
loop="-1">
E-mail
link
- <a href="mailto:muidlatif@yahoo.com">
And other html elements
- If you make
a link page, make sure all
of those links open at a new
window.
- Make sure
every page loads below 15
seconds or they close your
website and
browse other sites.
- Your
content must be very interesting
- If you build a personal homepage,
make
sure you include picture gallery,
poetry
and something either education
or
entertainment. Make people go in
your website
regularly.
- Try
to design and animate all graphics by
your own, don't take or
download from other
websites. You find yourself very happy because
all of your element, content and design of your
website is
genuine and originally created
by you skills, not from
others.
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