Top Ten Tips

Top Ten Tips

The more scrolling required, the slower the experience of reading your Web page becomes. Lots and lots of scrolling means too much text!

HTML has no requirement for uppercase or lowercase. Future versions may require tags in lowercase, so therefore, we encourage you to write in lowercase.

Testing your pages at a relatively low resonlution such as 640 x 480 with several different browsers can help you see your pages through your users' eyes. Getting this view is well worth taking the extra time!

It is a great idea to reproduce the URL for each page in its footer in a small type. If you provide this data, users can return to any specific page in your Web by using that URL later on, even if they didn't add it to their bookmarks.

Every time you add another level to a table, indent the code to offset it from the previous level. Then, when you return to a higher level, decrease your indentation to match previous code at the same level.

Unless you have your table border set to more than one pixel or the background of your table cells set to different colors, you won't be able to see a difference in the display of the cell spacing and the cell padding attributes.

The better a map's regions fit an image, the more the map behaves as users expect - and (given human nature) the more they'll like it! The moral of the story is: Take you time and, when id doubt, pick more points to outline something, rather than a few.

Both Navigator and Explorer support JavaScript. If you're running Internet Explorer on a Win32 Platform, IE also supports VBScript. So to enable as many browsers as possible, we suggest using JavaScript instead of VBScript.

If several pages on your site will use the same basic HTML, create a single template for those pages.

If you use graphics to provide content as well as a splash of color, include appropriate alternative text as well.