DESIGNING A WEBSITE FOR YOUR BUSINESS: THE BASICS

There are many ways of promoting your business, but there's this one idea that is said to be really efficient: have a website! If you have a business, you should also have a website in order to create awareness among your costumers.

There is no case whether a business is big or small, as long as you achieve its main intent, and that is to make money. Entrepreneurs grab every opportunities just to make this goal possible.
   
Having an online presence is vital for it builds relationships with clients and prospects. Also, through this, future costumers, potential employees, and business partners can easily find out more about your business and the services you are offering. Well, it's really not enough to just have a web-site, you must have a site that looks professional so clients will take you seriously.

For sure the question “how will I create my own web site?” was already running inside your mind. Well, first you must fully understand the cornerstone of web designing. We've provided some basic things than can quench your thirst for information. Plus, we also gave some additional sources for more data.

DESIGNING A WEB PAGE. When designing a web page, you should think first about the design itself. Even if you choose to become a programmer, you should also be knowledgeable in the basic of designing. Having an intellectual design can make your site look professional.

Here are some info that might help you understand web design:

Grid Design- The process of aligning page elements to an evenly spaced (invisible) grid, which makes for an aesthetically pleasing design.

Web Typography- refers to the use of fonts and spacing in the web.

Usability– This is the process of designing a user experience that promotes interaction and eases the user through the site navigation and action flows.

Design Inspiration-  of course any designer should have inspiration. To gain this, one can browse different website designs for ideas.


 WHAT IS HTML & CSS? HTML and CSS are the building blocks of every web page you see. HTML is a language used for describing web pages.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags:
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
HTML documents describe web pages:
HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
HTML documents are also called web pages

 While CSS, on the other hand, is short for Cascading Style Sheet, this is used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
Styles define how to display HTML elements
Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
External Style Sheets can save a lot of work
External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files

To simplify it, HTML is the foundation of your house (beams, bricks), while CSS is the looks (paint, decor, and furniture). In short, you can't learn CSS without fully understanding HTML. And you can't build an HTML page without using CSS.

Additional resources:
W3Schools – An excellent reference and learning resource for HTML and CSS.
W3C Validator – A tool for checking your HTML and CSS to ensure it complies with professional standards for programming — otherwise known as “valid code.”
A List Apart – A fantastic website about all things web design, with a focus on web standards.
Net Tuts – An excellent resource for web development tutorials.
Designing With Web Standards – One of the must-read books on web design, written by “The Godfather” of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman.
CSS Zen Garden – Both fun and amazing at the same time. See what types of design possibilities are possible just using CSS.

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