Common Misspellings - Another thing to remember is to include common misspellings in your pages for your search engine to find. You can include these in normal keyword meta-tags or, often, in search-engine-specific meta-tags (FreeFind and Atomz both allow for these special tags). This will help direct people to exactly correct pages.

Helpful Forms - This is a little tougher, but when someone includes incorrect data on form it's quite common to simply say "bad data" and force them to re-enter everything or guess what is incorrect. It's much smarter to clearly show exactly what is incorrect, and to allow visitor to enter only incorrect data again instead of whole form.

Don't break BACK button - Or any other browser control, for that matter. Your visitors should be able to back up, move forward or refresh their display at any time without any issues.

Keep Everything On One Page - If an error occurs, be sure error message is displayed and form or whatever is included (filled in with user's previous values) on same page. You want to prevent your visitors from having to back up or scroll to get to form.

Highlight errors - When errors occur (especially in forms) be sure to make mistakes stand out when you redisplay so they can be easily picked out from rest of page. It's also a good idea to include helpful hints on how to correct problem.

Conclusions - The more you can help your visitors get to useful information and such, more likely they are to come back and to recommend your site to others. So be sure to include contingency planning in your, well, planning.

Make cell color white, or another color you want to use, and set vertical alignment to top, and horizontal alignment to center. Here's table:

Content goes here...< d> < r> < able> < d> Content goes here...< d> < r> < able> < d> < r> < able> You will also need to embed another table in right 460 pixel cell and set cellpadding to 3 or more to separate content from table cell border (included in above example). Use this technique to create a variety of table configurations. You can even create a row of faux *buttons* for navigation without using a graphic file. Tables are a great way to control placement of content in your web page. They can also be used to decorate or enhance appearance of your pages. Go ahead and experiment! Have fun! Try different color combinations. Don't forget that you can also specify height of tables and cells as well as width. Thomas Benton is the owner of WebDesignWisdom.com and the publisher of Active-eBuilder, The Do-It-Yourself Web Design and Internet Marketing Ezine. Visit Tom's resource-rich website: http://www.webdesignwisdom.com     <Back to Page 1   ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005 Terms of Use