Free online website design training
To quickly learn things in this online website design training, use the glossary tab lots.
This free online website design training is all about helping you to create an affordable website. You will learn how to start with a blank computer screen and create a high quality website.
You will learn how to make a skeleton (template), fill in the blanks and come out with a very attractive web page. Go to the custom page lesson to make a custom page with your own unique design including your preferred number of columns and rows.
The best way to learn computer programming is to practice, practice, practice. So, go into that page developing website above and study hard. Make lots of pages until you really understand what they are trying to tell you. Learning the custom page lesson is one of the most important things in this course.
Validate your web page.
As you are working on your online website design training, it is a good idea to regularly upload and validate your web page to make sure you are not making html errors.
Lesson 1 cont'd. on the next page.
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Glossary of Website Design Terms
Ecommerce -- E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet.
Headings -- In this course there are six sizes of headings. The largest is the H1 heading. You will usually use that above your first paragraph. See the heading of this page. It is created using this code:
<h1 class = "orange">Free Website Design Tutorial Using YUI, CSS, Etc. -- Introduction<br /><br /></h1>
The search engines use the H1 heading to help them rank pages. So, a lot of thought should be put into your H1 heading.
The smallest heading is H6.
Line break, <br /> -- A line break (<br />) takes you to the next line. Between paragraphs you will use two line breaks so that there will be a space.
If you look at the yellow headings in the column to the right, you will see lots of space between the paragraphs and the headings. That is because there are two line breaks before and after each heading. Here is an example of the code for one of those headings:
<h3><br /><br />
Validate your web page.
<br /><br /></h3>.
Skeleton -- In this online website design training a skeleton is the "bare bones" of a web page. With the exception of the text and images that will repeat from page to page, all text and images have been removed.
When a programmer wishes to create a new page, they simply add the text and images for the new page. The images, paragraphs, index, etc. that are common to many other pages will already be in the skeleton.
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♦ Product descriptions and pictures.
♦ Shopping cart.
♦ Extra product information pages.
♦ A contact us form.
♦ Search engine optimizaton.
♦ Sales tax automatically added.
♦ All important shipping modules available.
♦ Acceptance of all major credit cards.
♦ Coupons
♦ Newsletters.
♦ Welcome pages.
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Snippet -- A snippet in this course refers to a small piece of computer code. For instance, that part of the code required to create a particular heading would be a snippet of code.
Validator -- A validator is a program that helps the programmer make sure they used the proper grammar, vocabulary and syntax when creating the web page.
To find a validator online, go to http://validator.w3.org/.