HTML and CSS tips for beginners:

If you are thinking about pursuing web design as either a career or a hobby, you must be able to do more than simply design a pretty page. There are plenty of different web design standards one must master, the two most important in the industry today are HTML and CSS.

Since the early days of web design, HTML has been the standard for professional websites. The latest 2.0 technology the old-table design has been replaced by layer based table-less XHTML and CSS templates which offers more flexibility in Website Designing together with slim and clear source code.

How does HTML work?

HTML consists of series of short codes typed into a text file, using notepad and these are called tags. The text is then saved as a HTML file and viewed through an internet browser. Internet Explorer or Netscape navigator works best for initial viewing. The browser reads the tags and translates the file into visible form. Writing in HTML code enables you to create exactly what you want, and has every little piece of information outlined just the way you want to see it. It all depends how much you want out of HTML. There are a tremendous amount of HTML codes you can use to make your own website. 

Using CSS for styling is a solid performing web design method used to achieve content accessibility, style flexibility, and a useful tool to reduce the complexity of the design structure.

When images and other graphics are used in a site, the loading speed of the site decreases significantly and may frustrate your users. To avoid this, webmasters use CSS which allows the use of smaller files thereby decreasing the bandwidth of the site. 

Our development team at Web Design Company Bangalore  is already using CSS3 styles and HTML5 coding techniques, partnered with JavaScript, and think these new technologies have the potential to make the web experience truly innovative and exciting.

·        When you open a HTML tag (e.g. <a>, <b>) always place the corresponding closing tag at the end, which helps to prevent any strange problems occurring in your page.

·        Style sheets will make your HTML coding file so much easier, which helps you to get fine control over the way your page look and can change their appearance just by editing one style sheet file.

·         There are number of CSS frameworks available on the internet that can help you make a stable, cross-browser, easy to test design.

·         HTML affects CSS. You cannot check CSS code through validator unless you check HTML. It often happens that HTML changes the site structure and validation is required for proper display.

·         To make your HTML code clearer for you and others, add comments.

·         Instead of creating multiple CSS classes for each page of your website, try to make same CSS classes that can be used repeatedly. This will help you to make sure that the design remains the same on all web pages.

·         Do not place CSS directly into HTML code, it does not work well in production code. Always keep HTML and CSS separate.

·         It’s a good idea to specify the width and height of an image when using an <img> tag. The advantage of doing this is that the Web browser can format the page more quickly as it is loaded, as it knows how to lay out the images before they've been downloaded. 

·         Tables have traditionally been used to lay out content on the page, however this was never their intended use. With the positioning capabilities of CSS, you can build HTML pages that just contain the page content, and use a separate style sheet to lay the content out. 

·         For really precise control over page layout, and if you haven't yet got the hang of CSS positioning, you can't beat the old spacer GIF trick. This involves using a 1 pixel x 1 pixel transparent GIF, which will be invisible in your Web pages, and using the width and height attributes to control the precise padding between page elements such as images, text and table cells.

Although HTML, the code for making webpages, may look complicated, it's quite easy to learn, In fact it's easier than learning how to use web design software. The only thing needed to make a website is a browser and a simple word processor such as Notepad.

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