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- How to Make a Website Of Your Own
"Some tips to get you started on making your own website. How to pick a domain
name, what program you need, whether you need to learn to code or not. and
other tips on making websites"
- Why Make A Website Open To Everyone
"Leaving aside the ethical issue, if your own website were functional to
everyone, you would attract more people to visit it. This reason alone is
beneficial for any type of website, more so to commercial sites. The more
people visit your website the more people are likely to become customers."
- Visually Impaired Users - How To Help Them
"A fairly large percent of Internet surfers are visually impaired. Whether
members of this group are blind, colour blind or do not have the vision they
once had, it's important that their needs are recognised. The aim of this
article is to make website designers aware of how to make websites functional
for visually impaired users and the guidelines for creating a universal design
solution."
- Good Navigation - Reaching The Information Instantly
"Creating good website navigation is one of the most important tasks a website
builder has to accomplish. Website navigation is the pathway people take to
navigate through websites. It must be well constructed, easy to use and
intuitive. "
- Liquid Design - A Step Forward To Make Your Website Better
"Liquid design is used in order to make websites more functional and
user-friendly. Among the many problems website builders often encounter, one
in particular is this functionality issue. The goal of liquid design is
providing a similar experience to people and eliminate possibly irritating
design flaws such as too much white space, disappearance of parts of
information due to lack of space."
- Liquid CSS Layouts - Design Alternative to Table Based Websites
"This article is a step by step case study showing you how to transform your
table based websites to liquid CSS based layouts."
- Improve Functionality While Maintaining Design Attractiveness
"The perception amongst designers and website builders is that improving
functionality or designing functional websites is a process that works against
visual attractiveness by promoting extreme simplicity. If we look at this
issue from the designers' point of view we see that making such a compromise
is often something many are not willing to make."
- CSS Layouts Vs. Table Layouts
When developing a website one can choose between creating a CSS-based or
TABLE-based website. Both types of layouts have advantages and disadvantages
and perform quite differently.
- Code Validation - Does It Really Help Users?
"Using standard HTML code ensures that the website is written using the
correct syntax. This in an article on whether correct HTML language makes
websites more appealing to visitors."
- Bobby WorldWide Web Tool - How Functional Is Your Web Site?
"Because it covers all existing guidelines, Bobby can identify and report
problems which are ultimately easy to fix but often overlooked. Website
designers and builders will find that by thoroughly going through the report
and making minor changes to their website, its functionality is improved
significantly."
- Flash - New Technology That Slows Down Users
"In recent years the web appears to have become trendier and more multimedia
oriented. While in some domains the new technologies work and prove successful
in most cases they don't help users, on the contrary, they make browsing the
Internet more difficult and time consuming."