- Test your page with different browsers and browser settings. Your pages may look different to different computers depending on the browser they are using and the settings they have set. Finding out how your pages look to others will help you create better pages.
- Change the font size in your browser. Not everyone uses the default settings in their browser. Go into your browser's settings and change the font size to see how other's may view your pages.
- Check other browsers. There are online tools to help you view your site with other browsers without having to download the actual browser. Sometimes your site will look great to you, but to someone with another browser, your site looks awful. Test your site and make some changes, if necessary.
- If using a non-default font, also use alternatives. If you are using a font, for your Web page, that is not a common font, you should specify a common font for your readers who don't have that font on their computer. You can do this by using this font code:
<font face="font1, font2, font3">
** Replace font1, font2 and font3 with the names of the fonts you want to use. - Make your <title> description descriptive. Search engines key on these words so they should have words that are in your page. If your site is about sewing your title could be something like, "Sewing With Thread To Make Blankets Shirts Clothes Dolls". Don't use punctuation except a dash, if necessary.
- Close all tags. When using HTML you must close all tags that you open. Your pages may not look right in some browsers if you don't.
- Examples:
<html> closes with </html>
<body> closes with </body>
<p> closes with </p>
<font> closes with</font>
<b> closes with</b>
<li> closes with </li>
<ol> closes with </or>
<ul> closes with </ur>
- There are some exceptions to the rule. Some tags don't need an ending tag because they only perform one function. Here are a few of those:
<br> - Creates a blank line.
<hr> - Creates a line across the page.
<img> - Starts a link to a graphic or other image.
- Keep them in order. When you open one tag and then open another inside it, close the last one first and the first one last. Let's say you open <html>, and then open <body>, and then open <font>. To close these tags, you must close <font> first with the </font> tag, then close the <body> tag with </body>, and finally close <html> with </html>. If you close <html> before you close <body> your page may not look right.
- Examples:
- Don't use too much white space. If you put too much white space on your page it will just look bad. Some is necessary because you don't want your page to look crowded, but too much will look, spacey.
10 Simple Design Tips Design Tips 6 thru 10
By Linda Roeder, About.com
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