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14: Choosing the right doctype for your HTML documents
By Roger Johansson · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12
At the very top of every good HTML document is a doctype - a link to a set of rules that the HTML in your document must follow. This is useful for many reasons. In this article, Roger Johansson tells you why, and takes you through the different available doctypes. Read more…
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13: The HTML <head> element
By Christian Heilmann · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 225
In this article, Christian Heilmann takes you through the most important parts contained within the HTML <head> element. This is the part of the HTML that describes your document, and links it to further resources. Read more…
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12: The basics of HTML
By Mark Norman Francis · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 23
HTML is the language that contains all our content on the Web, and gives it structure and meaning. It is probably the most important language to learn when starting web design, so pay close attention to this article, which introduces the basics. Read more…
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11: Typography on the web
By paul-haine · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 13
Typography - what typefaces you choose for your design and how you choose to position your text - is an important on the web as it is in printed work, but web typography is a bit more limited. In this article Paul Haine takes you through all the basics of web typography, its limitations and theory. Read more…
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10: Colour schemes and design mockups
By Linda · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 8
If you followed on with the previous two articles in this series, you should now have a good idea of what color scheme you want your site to have, and roughly what the layout of each page will be. In this article, we move on to the next stage - creating a mockup of the site with site features added, so you can get more of an idea of how the final version will look. Read more…
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9: Building up a site wireframe
By Linda · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 301
Before you actually dive in to putting the code together for a web site, you will want to sketch out where everything is going to go on your web pages, broadly speaking. Maybe you'll want to compare multiple different layout choices before deciding on a final one? This is called wireframing; in this article Linda Goin takes you through the basics of building up a simple but effective wireframe. Read more…
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8: Colour Theory
By Linda · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 36
What colors to include on your web site is a very important design decision for you to make. What mood do you want to convey with your web site, and how do you ensure that color choices make your content easier to access, not harder? In this article Linda Goin takes you through basic color theory, including typical color schemes. Read more…
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7: What does a good web page need?
By Mark Norman Francis · Tuesday, July 8, 2008 9
Following on from the previous article on Information Architecture, this article takes the concept a bit further, looking at what features you should include on your web site so that it effectively does it's job, and site vistors can easily find what they came for. Navigation, what to include on the home page, usability, and accessibility are all looked at here in brief. Read more…