.net magazine offers 20 pro tips to help neophyte web designers do it like the pro’s. The tips emphasize writing clean, organized code yourself, rather than using a WYSIWYG editor like DreamWeaver or GoLive.
.net magazine’s 20 pro tips:
- Planning
- Do it by hand
- Stylesheets: importing vs linking
- Smarter gradient backgrounds
- Commenting
- Use simple PHP to build sites
- Set fonts using ems
- IE Box Model Hack
- Space saver
- Test, test and test again
- Format fundamentals
- The ‘title’ and ‘alt’ attributes
- The correct format for pseudo classes
- Use semantic mark-up
- Favicons
- Change capitalisation using CSS
- Wrapping text around images
- Universal character sets
- Print styles
- Learn from others
If that wets your appetite, read the tips in detail.
4 Comments
Rotting
10:03 pm
Hi there, thanks for featuring these simple but useful tips. Please keep them coming. :P
Gwend
5:06 pm
“Whets” your appetite. Actually, it does! I’m raring to go with my redesign project. Thanks for that. I like the idea that there’s a pure, unified approach to web goodness. I remember liking the focus of hand coding too, and this confirms I should keep up the practice. Incidentally, this seems related to the call for HTML to be pared down some. See Douglas Crockford’s “Fixing HTML” for a bit of a techie techie thesis about W3C standards…
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7:41 am
These are some great tips - although beginners won’t probably go too deep into things like the IE Box Model hack, even though it isn’t hard to do. Things like alt tags, commenting and of course TESTING should be tattooed to every designer’s forehead :)