Table Tip: Border Control

Written by Thomas Benton


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Makerepparttar cell color white, or another color you want to use, and setrepparttar 134464 vertical alignment to top, and horizontal alignment to center. Here'srepparttar 134465 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 inrepparttar 134466 right 460 pixel cell and setrepparttar 134467 cellpadding to 3 or more to separaterepparttar 134468 content fromrepparttar 134469 table cell border (included inrepparttar 134470 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 controlrepparttar 134471 placement of content in your web page. They can also be used to decorate or enhancerepparttar 134472 appearance of your pages. Go ahead and experiment! Have fun! Try different color combinations. Don't forget that you can also specifyrepparttar 134473 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


The 25 Deadly Sins For Your Internet Marketing Website

Written by Detlev Reimer


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03. Your visitors get confused by too many links on your home- page

04. Incoming e-mails are answered after more than 3 days

05. Links cannot be recognized as being links

06. Lettingrepparttar visitor guess what comes next if they click on a link (Text like: ...more or ...next page)

07. Hiding your links withinrepparttar 134463 text so that they only can be found by placingrepparttar 134464 mouse over it ( it becomes a hand...)

08. Using more than 6 different colours for your basic design

09. Visitors have to guess which submenu they are in

10. Many spelling errors in your body copy

11. Nothing for FREE on your site

12. Forced registration on your first page or no content available...

13. Your page takes 2 or 3 minutes to load ... most people will interrupt it

14. Using wrong fonts (fonts which are installed on YOUR computer only)

15. Showingrepparttar 134465 same picture but name them differently. By doing this, it cannot be taken from your browser cache to speed uprepparttar 134466 loading time of your page

16. No cross-browser test; your site looks excellent onrepparttar 134467 Internet Explorer but...

17. Scaling your graphics only by width and height attributes of your HTML-code instead of making your graphics smaller/bigger

18. Headlines as gifs instead of text; search engines will ignore them and your loading time will increase

19. Using dozens of blinking elements and marquee-fonts on your pages

20. No unique content, just rehashed material from other web- sites

21 "Ugly" pages; colours which don't fit together, backgrounds which make your text very hard to read

22. Pages which have no "exit", no links which lead you back to your starting page

23. Choosing a hard to remember name for your website, you want to be found, don't you ?

24. Wrong prices for your articles

25. Choosing slow ISP's

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+ Forgetting to have fun! Don't take everything too serious ;-)



Article by Detlev Reimer. Feel free to use the article with these bylines included. Detlev has just finished creating his first product, a database program for Internet marketers which will help you to save and organize e.g. your advertising, customer and contact data. For further details, please visit : http://www.promobuddy.com/ . Sign up for his newsletter at http://www.internetmarketing-success.com/ .


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