It's Not That Hard


Web design is easy if you allow it to be easy.

It is not hard to learn or write HyperText Markup Language (HTML); it requires meticulous attention to detail, but it is easy to do, if you remember the following:

  1. ALL tags (the statements that HTML uses) must be enclosed with the "<" and ">" symbols, like this: < center>
  2. Tags that are used in pairs (such as < font> and < center>< /center>, for example) always have a "/" symbol in the closing tag (the one farthest to the right).
  3. ALL web pages must start with the < HTML> tag, and end with the < /HTML> tag.
  4. It is a good idea to use type of the same case in all of your tags; that is, use either upper or lower case. Tags that link to other pages or to images may have to be written in a mixture of cases (Example: < IMG SRC="niceimage.gif">), but all commands, such as the "IMG SRC" part of the above example, should be written in the same case.
  5. Use cut-and-paste code whenever and wherever you can find it; this takes away some of the stress that is engendered by trying to find that one little mistake in that 2000 lines of code that you just wrote.
  6. Write your HTML in a text editor such as notepad, wordpad, or a wordprocessing application such as MSWord or whatever, then highlight, copy, and paste it into whatever page entry device you use to put your html on your site(such as Geocities' File Manager). This reduces the stress of having to wait for the server to make up its mind to go ahead and save your changes (waits can be as long as 20 minutes in some cases).
  7. Make absolutely sure that you have spelled everything correctly and included all of the necessary symbols; dropping a "<" or a "=" can mess up an entire document.

Follow the simple rules above, and you will find your pagebuilding experience to be much less stressful, and have more time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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