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More HTML Formatting Help
Posted by: | CommentsWe have already covered some basic HTML tags you will use when writing your web page code. Here are a few more that you might find come in handy, when designing your own web page.
Image Tags
In HTML, when you want to call upon an image to be displayed on your web page, you need to use the img tag. This tag tells the browser and web server that you are going to put an image here, and then what follows src= is the direct path to the image in question.
Code: <img src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/yourimage.jpg” />
Horizontal Rule Tags
The horizontal rule is for making a nice separator between sections of your web page. It acts as a single solid line that can be placed anywhere on your web page. It looks like this:
Code: <hr />
List Tags
If you want to format a list of topics on a single page, then the list tags will come in handy. You would start a list with the <ul> tag and end it with the </ul> tag. For each item on the list, you will want to wrap it in the <li> and </li> tags.
Code: <ul> <li>item #1</li> <li>item #2</li> </ul>
Ordered List Tags
If you want to format a list of topics on a single page, and have them numbered, the ordered list tags should be used. You would start a list with the <ol> tag and end it with the </ol> tag. For each item on the list, you will want to wrap it in the <li> and </li> tags.
Code: <ol> <li>item #1</li> <li>item #2</li> </ol>
Link Tags
Links are used to help users go from one page to the next page. The basic link is started with the <a href=”"> tag with the page’s path you want to link to inside the quotation marks. Then you type in the text of the link, and close it out with the </a> tag.
Code: <a href=”http://www.somedomain.com/pageiamlinkingto.html”>This Text is a Link</a>
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WHS Facebook Fan Page!
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It has been over a year since we launched the Facebook fan page and it has been a real success. At the current date and time, we have over 500 fans and we keep growing every single day. Are you missing out on the fun? All you need to do is head over to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the “Like” button on the top of the website. Then post your Firefox comments, questions or just say hi to some of the other people who are following the Web Hosting Show on Facebook.
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Modify the HTML Body Tag
Posted by: | CommentsThere are several HTML tags that can act as modifiers to how the web page looks visually.
First, let us re-visit the body tags. The body tags are there to tell the browser what part of the document is going to be visible to the end user when viewing the web page. This is marked up in your HTML code by putting a <body> where your web page’s content begins and a </body> tags where it ends.
How to Modify the Body Tag
So, any time you modify the body tags, you will be changing the way the web site is seen. There are several body tag modifiers you can use.
Change the Web Page’s Background Color
You can add bgcolor=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the background color for a web page.
- Code: <body bgcolor=”white”> (this would make the background all white)
Change the Web Page’s Text Color
You can add text=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the background color for a web page.
- Code: <body text=”black”> (this would make the text all black)
Change the Web Page’s Link Color
You can add link=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of links on a web page.
- Code: <body link=”blue”> (this would make the links all blue)
Change the Web Page’s Visited Link Color
You can add vlink=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of link that have already been visited on a web page.
- Code: <body vlink=”red”> (this would make the visited links red)
Change the Web Page’s Active Link Color
You can add alink=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of an active link.
- Code: <body alink=”purple”> (this would make the active link purple)
More Helpful Body Tag Tips
You can use more than one of these at a time. If you wanted to, you could use more than one of these body modifiers at a time. you would just need to remember to put a space in between each body modifier. For example:
<body bgcolor="black" color="white">
This is how you would link more than one together, this would tell the browser to make the background of the web page black and the text on the web page white. There is no limit to the number of these modifiers you can use on the body tag, as long as everything is formatted correctly, the web page should come out the way you want it to.
Only add these modifiers to the opening body tag. It is important to note that you only add these modifiers to the opening tag <body> and not the closing tag </body>.
Where can I find the HTML color or HEX values? You can find these many places. One of the best examples, is on w3school.com’s HTML colors page here:
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How to Create the Best Website Navigation
Posted by: | CommentsThe navigation section of your web site is one of the most important factors to a web site.
Why? The navigation is what allows you to move from one section of the web site to the next, linking web pages to web pages, and in all making a web site work. Here I hope to explain why web site navigation is important, along with a few other key factors you should remember when creating your web site.
Organize Your Web Pages
You should have a good idea of what your web site is going to be about, and how you are going to create it before you start with any HTML coding. One tool that comes in extremely handy when deciding navigation and how each page links to each idea is mind mapping. You can learn more about that process here:
As an example let us say you are working on a web site about you, so you have these basic web pages designed and ready to go:
- The Home Page (the first thing people see)
- An About Page (which gives more information about you, like your resume)
- Your Contact Page (might have your e-mail address, or various means of contacting you)
- Projects and Work (examples of the work you have done, or the projects you have worked on)
Now somewhere, you will need to have your web site navigation on each of the pages. This can be done in a number of different ways, but the most popular seems to be across the top. This way people can go to and from different parts of the web site, just by clicking the links you see on the top. I would suggest having them formatted this way:
Home | About Me | Contact Me | My Projects
Each one should link to the related pages above. A clean-cut and uniform navigation system is really a must.
Web Site Navigation Tips
Here are some more tips you should watch out for when it comes to web site navigation:
- Create a site map to help people find exactly what they are looking for quickly.
- There is no problem with highlighting certain pages you think deserve more attention, just make sure they don’t take away from your main web site navigation.
- Be sure to use short and precise words in your links, so people will know exactly what they are getting.
This is no doubt that navigation plays a huge roll in how successful your web site is and how long they stick around it. If people can not navigate from web page to web page easily, they might grow frustrated and leave the web site all together. So, having a good navigation system means you can keep more visitors both on and returning to your hosted web site.
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Will Dedicated Hosting Die?
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If you look across the board at some of the biggest and brightest web hosting companies out there, you will see the trend is the same. A lot of companies out there are looking to get rid of the dedicated servers and start offering alternatives like virtual server hosting.
So, why is this happening? I do think that costs have a big part to play in it. Dedicated servers cost more to run than some of the alternatives out there. They are bulky and hard to maintain once they get so old. It would be like you buying a pair of shoes and the company that makes the shoes has to guarantee they still work, so every couple of years they send you an update pair. In the long run, dedicated hosting has reached its peak of usefulness.
VPS hosting has also grown by leaps and bounds as the eventual successor to the dedicated server hosting setup. It is much easier to scale, setup and maintain. The only drawback for some would be the fact that it doesn’t exactly offer the customizability you might have with a dedicated server.
Some people might call me crazy for saying dedicated hosting is on the way out. However, those same people might have never noticed the free hosting providers of the world going out of business left and right either.
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Give Me Your Podcast Ideas!
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It is your good friend, the web hosting industry’s media rock star, here with a ‘bit of a problem that I hope you can help me with. You see, the podcast has been on a ‘bit of a hiatus as of late – and I am sorry for that. However, I have just about run out of ideas and topics. To me, it seems like I have covered just about everything there is – so I need your help.
Let me know, what new topics would you like to hear talked about on the Web Hosting Show? You suggest it – and I will do it. It is as simple as that. This podcast isn’t for me, it isn’t for them, it is for you – so if there is a topic you would like to learn more about, and it has something to do with the web hosting industry, please send it my way.
Even if you have never commented here or left a message on any website before, I want your opinions, your ideas. Let me know how I can make this resource better for you and I will do it. So how can you send me these ideas? You can either leave them as a comment on this post or use my nifty contact page to send your message along.
Thank you for your support and for your ideas for future episodes of the Web Hosting Show podcast.
- Mitch
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