Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 13th, 2008
Smashing Magazine is a site I vist almost on a daily basis. They have great articles on writing code, using CSS as well as resources for lots of F REE stuff. Today’s article is 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean by Chris Coyier. Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 2nd, 2008
There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list – but if you look carefully you’ll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites. With that [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Nov 2nd, 2008
I am always on the lookout for good tools to use in developing websites. Today I came across Essential Web Developer Tools (Validation, Browsers, Transparent PNG’s and More) by by Selene M. Bowlby. Some of the tools she mentions, I already use, some are new. Screen Resolution / Browser Size setmy.browsersize.com has two services being [...]
Posted in CSS, RootsWeb and FreePages, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Oct 17th, 2008
I just finished reading the article How Would You Recommend a Novice Get Started Using CSS? by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks. He says: I get this one a lot and it’s surprisingly difficult to answer. The problem is that the question doesn’t include the persons background, which will in many ways determine the best course [...]
Posted in Troubleshooting Tips, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Oct 5th, 2008
How many times have you visited a site and clicked on a link only to find it goes nowhere? How often do you check the links on your website to make sure they are still working? One of my favorite tools in the LinkChecker Addon available for the Firefox browser. Susan Emerson is one of [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 9th, 2008
For those of you who may just be getting started with separating the presentation of your website from the content of your site by using cascading style sheets, understanding the difference between using id and class attributes may seem overwhelming. The id attribute provides a unique identifier for an element within the document. The class [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 6th, 2008
Do you want to make your own web pages but are too worried about falling short in the complex depths of CSS? Not too worry – all it takes is some patience, some practice, and a little bit of time. Don't stress out with overly-complicated tutorials – start here with 20 awesome introductory tuts to [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 1st, 2008
A resounding YES I would have answered a couple of years ago. I don’t want the user to go somewhere else and not come back. Now I know different. No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its [...]
Posted in Search Engine Optimization, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jun 27th, 2008
According to Wikipedia SEO or Search Engine Optimization is “the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it “ranks”, the more searchers [...]
Posted in Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Apr 28th, 2008
Recently a question was asked on the RootsWeb Help Mailing list about the problem of validating a page that contained the <NOBR> tag. <NOBR> (no break) The NOBR tag ensures that a line of text does not wrap to the next line. This tag is useful for words or phrases that must be kept together [...]
