Free Websites For Healers: One Woman’s Thank YouWritten by Brenda Hayes
Continued from page 1
“I never thought I would have my own site, I am so computer illiterate, but Maggie made a beautiful site for me at www.reikidivine.com”- Ann Bastuba Maggie feels that if every healer had a website, that would be more than 5 million places for people to look for answers to their health problems. More than that, it would bring alternative healing to an equal par with traditional medicine in minds and hearts of human beings, where it was meant to be from beginning. “What better way for me to give back to healers who give their healing for free.” – Maggie Wahls Maggie Wahls is now a healer herself and a practicing Reiki Master Teacher and Shaman. She will create a site for free for any healer of any modality. Just visit her website at http://www.magnoliaz.flashbuilder.net and follow arrows to fill out simple form. She will get started immediately. You will love your site full of love. Her healing site can be found at www.shamanelder.com
I am writing this strictly for my friend Maggie Wahls who has more faith than anyone I know.
| | Are you cross-browser compatible?Written by Matt Benya
Continued from page 1
Another thing you should make a habit of is to validate your pages through World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short). Founded in 1994 W3C has made it its obligation to guide development of Web and create a common basis to build upon. One of services that W3C offers is syntax validation. This is a useful tool when you are trying to ensure that your visitors will get roughly same experience when they visit your site. Validation is easy, select language your site was designed in and use their free validation tools to track down any errors that might occur. If there is an error in your source validation system will highlight it and provide you with possible solutions for correcting it.
Why should you conform your site to World Wide Web Consortium's guidelines? The answer is that it is these guidelines that browser developers use as a basis to display pages on Web. While browsers like Mozilla conform strictly to W3C's guidelines Internet Explorer is more relaxed. In fact Internet Explorer will render just about anything you throw at it. You can leave out <html> tags, <body> tags, or forget to close a tag all together and IE will 9 times out of 10 be able to work with what you give it. Be weary of Microsoft's FrontPage. While Microsoft makes some of world's most powerful and end user friendly applications in my opinion, FrontPage has a tendency to do things IE's way. What I mean when I say this is that FrontPage will overload a web page with a lot of overhead that is either out of place or incorrect. If you plan on using an editor of this type consider Adobe's GoLive, this application at least has ability to built a page according to W3C standards and has a built in syntax checker that can help you ensure your site will meet their requirements. The final word, most likely not… Remember saying "you can't please everyone"? The same holds true to world of Internet browsers, it will be pretty much impossible to make your site render same way on each and every browser available. This however is not goal; goal is to make your site useable by most common browsers thus reaching largest audience possible. If something fails horribly under certain browsers then it is a good time to rethink your design and find another way to approach issue. If your site is known to only work under Internet Explorer and it is your desire to leave it this way then it is good practice to let your visitors know this in advance. They will be much likelier to switch browsers (if possible) and come back to your site if you let them know ahead of time rather than letting them walk into an unusable page or badly formatted site. Don't forget presentation is everything.
Matt Benya is a co-owner of Primate Studios (www.primatestudios.com) an independent development house focusing on CGI illustration, Web design and multimedia. With 20+ years of art experience and a degree in Network administration Matt is well suited to translate your needs to the Web.
|
