The previous part of this tutorial can be seen here.
If you open up index.html from the last tutorial by double clicking it, you will see nothing but a blank page in your web browser. In this part of the tutorial, we’re going to fill that page with some of our content.
First, we’ll concentrate on the text elements of the page. [Read more →]
This category covers problems that can and do occur on a fairly regular basis (and can sometimes be fairly difficult to deal with). ‘Simple’ problems include such things as users not being able to log into their PC, printer paper jams or printers that fail to print, and documents or other files that can’t be found. The more people that work within a business, the higher the number of issues like these that can be expected to happen. [Read more →]
As well as making sure that all of the copy (text) on your website is original (see this post for more info), it is vital to ensure that all images on your site are original too. [Read more →]
After recently finishing a project for a not-for-profit organisation, Abilities First, which aims to find people with disabilities and ex-offenders places in the work force (read about it here), I thought that I would share with you the best practices to make your site as accessible as possible for people with disabilities such as poor eyesight, poor motor skills and dyslexia to name but a few. [Read more →]
If you haven’t read the first part of the ‘Build Your Own Site’ Tutorial, you can read it here.
Every website is built upon a foundation of code that rarely changes from site to site.
So let’s get started. Right-click on your desktop, choose New, then Folder and call it ‘mysite’ (or whatever you like!). Now double-click the Notepad2 icon on your desktop. From the top menu choose File, then New; a blank screen will appear. Again from the top menu, choose File then Save As and in the text box below, type index.html. Navigate to your newly created folder and click Save. You should now have a index.html file inside your new folder. [Read more →]