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Basic Web Design Tips to Get Your Started in the Right Direction

These tips will help you get started with Web design. Once you learn the basics and get started you will be well on your way to having your own personal Web site.
New Year Resolutions For Web Page Design
7 simple Web design tips you can use on your Web site. Make a New Year resolution to use these tips on your Web site and your site will look and feel better.
Why You Can't Link to Web Site Pages on Your Computer
Why can't I link to Web site pages that are on my computer? This can be done but only under certain circumstances. It's not something that should be undertaken by a beginner. It can't be done by normal means and can be dangerous when it is done.
Creating An Online Diary 101 - Updating daily vs weekly
Learn to create your own online diary. This tutorial starts with where to host your site and how to get started and ends with promoting it so people can find it. You will learn this and everything in between step by step.
Creating An Online Diary 101 - Choose a Design
Learn to create your own online diary. This tutorial starts with where to host your site and how to get started and ends with promoting it so people can find it. You will learn this and everything in between step by step.
Creating An Online Diary 101 - Choosing a Title for your Online Diary
This tutorial will help you create your own online diary. On this page you will get help deciding on a title for your site. A title can make the difference when someone is searching for a site to read on a search engine. The site with the best title will win every time.
Back to Basics - Cut, Copy, Paste Your Way To Better Documents
You're writing a Web site and you want to have the same border on every page or you want to rearrange a letter you just wrote so it sounds better. Learn to do this in seconds and with just a few clicks of the mouse. Soon you will be designing great pages and writing like you never wrote before.
Create A Web Site: Part I
Create your very own Web site from start to finish all by yourself.
Good Design Is Essential
Choosing the best design for your Web sites is as hard as deciding what to put on your site and what to write about. Colors, styles, fonts, graphics and writing styles are just a few of the things you have to consider when designing your Web site.
Is Your Site Cool?
"How can you make your site more usable so that your readers can find the information they are looking for."
"Link Rot" Are You a Culprit
Find out why the location of your page matters, and how to prevent "link rot".
Little Web Of Horrors
"Design tactics that will often scare away even the most dedicated reader. These tactics are the worst of the Web - and should be avoided at all costs."
Online Diary Tutorial - Choosing a Design For Your Biography Page
A biography page tells the world who you are. Without this people won't know who they are reading about and you may loose readers. Create a biography that is intriguing and they will stay around longer.
Personal Web Pages Tutorial - Design Personal Web Pages
Create and design your own personal Web pages. This tutorial will help you create and design personal Web pages from scratch and even turn them into a whole personal Web site of your very own.
Similar to Paper Layouts - Web Layouts Should be Simple and Clear
"It's one thing to know how to build a Web layout, but it's something else to know the rules behind designing a layout that works."
"Sticky" Web Pages
Focus on more than just getting people to come to your site. Get them to stay and browse through your site.
10 Web Site Design Tips For Your Site
Ten simple things you can do to make sure your site looks good. Sometimes Web design is more that just creating a page. With these tips you will have a better looking, more managable site.
Top 5 Most Important Web Usability Issues
You want to create a site that is usable by the people that come to visit it. These five simple things will make your site much better.
Web Site Design Tips - To Do And Not To Do
Web site design tips to help you design a better Web site and promote your Web site.
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