First take a screenshot of the webpage where the logo is you want to use. Or you can usually right click and save the logo to your desktop. Go into your graphics editor such as Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop and create a new file. I used Fireworks for this example....
Does your website have scroll bars? It might not seem like an especially important question, but it is. In fact, when it comes to website usability, the question of scrolling is one of the most vital ones out there. Do Users Like to Scroll? One of those eternal...
A website's navigation is one of its most important parts. Sure, your users mostly come in through search engines now instead of via your homepage, but how can they get from whatever page they're on to any other page they might want to go to? The limited space...
Multimedia on the web is often seen as a bad idea: it breaks the flow of textual information, makes your bandwidth costs spiral out of control, and annoys visitors who aren't expecting it. Used properly, though, multimedia can enhance your website to no end, putting...
There is a problem that has plagued the web ever since graphical designs for web pages started to become common – and yet it's a problem that's never been solved. You see, different sized monitors can handle different widths of page, and yet HTML doesn't really let...
When you want to put graphics on your website, you'll face an unexpected problem: what format should they be in? On their own computers, many people save pictures in Windows' default BMP (bitmap) format, but the files it creates are simply much too large to put on a...
Most of the visitors to your website are going to spend 99% of their time doing one thing: reading your content. Given that the web is a medium mainly devoted to reading, it's surprising just how ignorant most page authors are about typography. If you use the wrong...
Once you've written a web page, you can upload it to an HTML validator. This site, run by the web's standards body, will check that your site is valid (‘correct') HTML, and give you some idea of how to fix it if it isn't. This is an essential step in the...
Once you've decided to write your own HTML, and you've got some idea of how it all works, there's one thing left to think about: which program are you going to use to do it? While you can use programs like Notepad or Wordpad that come with Windows, they don't have any...
If you've looked around at a few websites, you might have noticed that many of them look absolutely terrible. In many cases, this is because they were produced in the early days of the web's mainstream popularity, but they haven't been maintained or updated since. The...
