5 Things Every Web Designer Should Know
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Hilco van der Meer July 28, 2006
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Hilco van der Meer |
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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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/ 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 Stylesheet course How To Master CSS. He's a professional web
designer for over 5 years. More information about the course can be
found at: http://www.HowToMasterCSS.com |