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| 5 Things Every Web designer
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| Posted: 4-05-2006 |
| Author: Hilco van der Meer |
5 Things Every
Web designer Should Know
so, you are planning to become a serious web designer?
Or you think you already are? Check out on these 5 things
and see if you confirm to all of these!
1. There is more than one browser
Internet Explorer for windows is by far not the only browser
around. You should test your website on both the Macintosh
and on the PC. You can use Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla
Firefox and Opera on the PC and Safari and Firefox on
the Macintosh. Internet Explorer for the mac is no longer
supported by Microsoft so don't bother testing, things
will hardly work anyway with today's CSS coding.
2. CSS is the way to go
There is no doubt about it. If you are serious about developing
websites you should use Cascading Style Sheets for both
your layout and your design. This way you have total control
over how your page behaves in all browsers.
It also adds great flexibility to your website for later
on, when you are planning to do a redesign for example.
3. Create all your code yourself
Don't even try to use the Design view from Dreamweaver
or Frontpage.
The code it generates is by far not what you want if you
need to have full control of your page. For maximum control
you should always work in the code view and create things
yourself.
4. Use Mozilla Firefox for JavaScript debugging
The error messages Internet Explorer generates are quite
irritating to say the least. It doesn't even tell you
what is actually missing and on what place things go wrong.
If there's one browsers that can help you with your JavaScript
development then Firefox is the one. The JavaScript console
is by far the most detailed one and will help you very
much when you are testing your scripts.
5. Use the Web development Toolbar for both Internet Explorer
and Firefox
These toolbars will help you a lot because there are filled
with debugging tools and handy shortlinks to useful tools.
The one for Firefox can be found at: http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
And the one for Internet Explorer can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en
You really need to have at least these toolbars!
So now you know what you need to have to be a successful
web designer. Don't forget to download at least the toolbars.
They will help you a lot and will save you a lot of time.
Hilco van der Meer is known as the author of the Cascading
Style Sheets Course How To Master CSS. He's a professional
Web Designer for over 5 years now. His course aims at
easy to follow and step-by-step examples. More info can
be found at http://www.howtomastercss.com/
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