Now Available on Amazon

We are proud to announce that our award winning training DVD, Master the Web - Learning Basic HTML will now be available on Amazon.com.

Master the Web goes beyond simply telling the viewer what to do. Instructors explain each concept -- from HTML fundamentals to more advanced concepts like file management and preformatted Web pages -- then walk the viewer through every step before explaining exactly what they just did, and why. No stone is left unturned, and the viewer walks away from Master the Web with a thorough understanding of HTML.

"Master the Web demystifies Web site design and publishing, using
easy-to-understand language that anyone can follow," stated producer Daniel L. Baldwin. "We are confident that these HTML training videos will take the viewer from HTML novice to creating a well designed Web page quickly and easily."

You can learn more about the DVD at our web site at http://www.htmltutorialdvd.com/.

5 Things To Consider In Website Design

By John M Mahoney

If you think that it's practically easy to do website design, then you're probably wrong. The process actually requires more than perfect combination of colors, use of animation and Flash, as well as perfect structures of every web page.

What Should You Keep in Mind in Website Design ?

If you have an online business, or if you are trying to promote your services and products through the World Wide Web, then you must know that your website will be your mode of connection to your Internet users. Hence, the website design being implemented will determine if you are going to be successful or not.

To help you out, you can remember these website design considerations:

1. Know the purpose of your website. Most definitely, you cannot build a website just for the sake of having one. Otherwise, you are not making the most out of your investment. You need to know the reason behind its creation so, you can also determine what kind of website design you are going to utilize. For example, if you are simply providing information to your target market, then you may want to make sure that articles are easy to scan. If you are selling products or offering services, meanwhile, you should have your own Products and Services page, with accompanying photos and descriptions that are both convenient to look at.

2. Make sure that all links are clickable. Dead links, or those that lead users and search engine spiders to removed or non-accessible pages, will definitely not become too pleasing to both Internet users and search engines. Basically, your target customers would not like to feel deceived or waste their time on dead links. Your website will also be getting supplemental pages, which can hinder your chances of getting excellent page ranks. Hence, when you are doing web design, check the links first before uploading the pages. They should lead you to the page with the right contents.

3. Strike balance among the different elements in your website. Though usability and accessibility will be two of your foremost consideration in creating a website, you should also make sure that your pages appear professional. Internet users still go for websites where contents are properly laid out, there are a number of photos or videos that accompany them, and that the right colors are chosen.

4. Website should be easy to navigate. There are only few people who implement the static Home button technique. This is when Home appears in every web page of your site. Normally, when you have too many pages, users can get lost while browsing. The Home button can help them start from scratch.

5. Site maps and proper headline tags do count. One of the goals in website design is to make all pages of your website easy to index. Hence, you need to add a site map, so it becomes convenient for search engine spiders to index your various web pages. Headline tags will also make you convenient to search in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

John Mahoney is a freelance author who writes about various technology related subjects including Website Design. For more information about John visit his website: http://www.techstore.ie

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Adding Color to Your Webpage

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Your First Web Page

Let’s get our hands dirty and begin writing a simple HTML web page.

First, start by opening Notepad. And now that we are ready to type, let's add our first HTML tags to our file.

• Type < H T M L >
• Hit "Enter", five times. This gives us some space to add the following tags
• and then type < / H T M L >

The HTML tag is the very first tag that you will make in every new web page. The opening HTML tag tells the web browser to start looking for more markup tags in the following text, and the closing - HTML tag tells the browser that there is no more HTML in the file, and that the page is all finished.

The HTML tag is not the only tag that every web page must have, there are two more we need to add before a browser can view our web page. The first one we need to add is called the 'Head' tag.

• We are going to add this tag between the HTML tags we just created
• Between your HTML tags, type < H E A D >
• Hit "Enter" twice
• and then type < / H E A D >

The head tag will not contain any HTML that will be displayed on our web page. Instead, the HTML inside of the Head tag is used to reference other files that help control how the browser will display our page, and also to set any special options that the browser supports.

For now we do not need to worry about putting any HTML inside of the head except for the Title tag.

• Bellow the head tag, type < T I T L E >
• Then next to the title tag, type MY FIRST WEB PAGE
• and then type < / T I T L E >

The text that we put inside of the title tags will show in the title bar of the web browsers. When I say title bar, I mean the blue bar at the very top of your browser window.

So now that we have a head and a title for our file, lets add the other required tag needed to finish our web page, which is called the 'Body' tag

• Underneath your the HEAD end tag and the HTML end tag, type < B O D Y >
• Hit "Enter" five times
• and type < / B O D Y >

The body tag is where we will put our entire HTML that we want the browser to show on the screen when it loads our page.

To finish our web page, let's add some text inside of the body so that we have something to see when we open our page in a web browser.

• Between your BODY tags, type HELLO WORLD

And now our HTML file is finished, and ready to be displayed in a browser. All that's left to do is save the file to disk.

One thing to remember when you save your file is that you will need to give it an extension of .HTM or .HTML

If you don't give your file a dot HTM or dot HTML extension, that's still okay, but when you browse to the directory where you saved the file and double click on it, it will probably open in note pad and not your web browser.

So now our file is saved to disk. At this moment our file is a completely finished web page, and we could upload it to an Internet web server so that anyone on the internet could view our web page.

Congratulations, you have just created your first web page.

Note: In order to publish this post, we added spaces between each character in our HTML tag examples. When typing your actual html tags, be sure there are no spaces bewteen the characters.

And the Winner Is...

Master the Web wins at the 7th Annual Horizon Interactive Awards Competition!

The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, announced the 2008 award winners to highlight this year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production.

Master the Web - Basic Web Design was recognized for their excellence with a Silver award. You can learn more about the DVD at www.htmltutorialdvd.com

The seventh annual, international competition saw just over 1000 entries from 20 countries around world including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand Turkey, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and nearly all 50 of the United States of America. An international panel of judges, consisting of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds, as well as an end user panel evaluated 18 different categories ranging from online advertising to video games. The 2008 winning entries showcase the industry’s best interactive media solutions including web sites, CDs and DVDs, online ads, video and more.

“The 2008 competition was the most competitive to date. The work in this year’s competition is at such a high level that the judges really had their work cut out for them,” said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. “All of the winning entries displayed a high level of sophistication, aesthetic creativity, technical excellence and clear purpose.“

The Horizon Interactive Awards holds the annual competition in early spring of each year with the winners being announced in May. For more information visit the Horizon Interactive Awards at www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.