The Topic Of Your WebsiteWritten by Oleg Lazarenko
The first thing you will have to deal building your website has nothing to do with web design itself, it's me related to content writing but it must be defined and will effect rest of your actions. So first of all you need to decide what topic of your future website is. Topic is very closely connected to another web design issue: keywords. The keywords you select will depend upon topic you have chosen. When thinking about website topic ask yourself a few questions: What is goal of site you are making? What are you trying to achieve with your site. Specify a goal, preferably in one short sentence. Take a sheet of paper and a pen and put all you can think out about your future website. Brainstorm! Just put everything that comes to your mind: what you want to give to your visitors, what site is about, what you want to accomplish with your website, what is your experience in area you would like to select as topic? The more points you could think up better. Then sort it in number of importance. Think what points can be deleted without harm to your project. Delete them. Leave only what is REALLY important. Try to get your goal out of those points. Choosing topic is like choosing topic for college research paper. You should try to select reasonable balance between too wide and to narrow topics. Narrowing down your website topic might be very helpful. If you have narrower topic that means you have less competing topic thus it will help you to get better position among your competitors. However if topic is too narrow nobody will ever bother to search for it. Let me give you example: you want to build a website devoted to website design, but if you try to develop this website guess
| | Website Backgrounds: 5 Cool Tricks for a Professional LookWritten by David Leonhardt
Most websites feature white backgrounds. Or they sit on a navy or gray background -- but most of screen is still white, like a page of paper set against darker background. Occasionally, you might run across more interesting colors - reds and purples and greens and rust – often looking more gaudy than professional.But every now and then, there is a website with a photo or a drawing or a pattern background. This tutorial will show you not just how to place a background on your website, but five clever ticks to spice up background without resorting to gaudiness. The basic html code to place a background on your web page is very simple: To place a background in a table, perhaps set against a solid color page background, here is basic html code: The image file called image.jpg now becomes your background. A typical image would show up "tiled". In other words, it repeats itself horizontally and vertically to fill screen. This usually does not look very professional, so here are five tricks to clean it up and spice it up.1. Use "strip" graphics. Strip graphics are simply very long images that stretch across screen. When they repeat, they repeat one below other. To see this in action, view my page at http://www.thehappyguy.com/SEO.html . The yellow strip along right side looks like it is part of top banner image. But it is a 650 by 20 strip image, mostly white, with a touch of yellow along left side. This works well with patterns that vary only from left to right 2. Hold background in place. When a visitor scrolls down, text rolls over image. I used this trick at my personal website: http://www.leonhardtonline.com (Please forgive mess – I never seem to find time to clean it up.) The html code to do this is: This works for patterns, but it works best for photos or drawings, such as a faded image of your company logo or a faded scenery shot or a faded photo of people interacting. (Remember that background should not stand out at expense of foreground text and images, which is why you want faded images.)
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