HTML Tips - Easy Ways to Make Your Website Sizzle

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HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the first building block of the Web. Learn everything you need to know with these resources.

Beginner's Guide to HTML

From Webdeveloper.com, an introductory tutorial that walks you through the creation of your first Web site.

Dmitry Kirsanov's Top Ten Web Design Tips

A collection of tutorials, Web page design and layout, and general advice distilled from Dmitry's experience as a Web site designer. Though written some years back, his advice is still on-point and insightful.

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners

Tutorial designed mainly for beginners who know little about how a Web page is made. Teaches all basic HTML tags with plenty of examples. HTML code box allows user to try out their new skills and view them as they learn them. It is very easy to learn and comprehend.

Idocs Guide to HTML

A very complete guide to HTML. Includes explanations and examples. Wonderful tutorials on frames and tables.

So You Want to Make a Web Page?

Tutorial aimed at "all wet behinda ears" Newbies. Includes Table Tutor, Forms Tutor and Frames Tutor. Also has a downloadable zip version for fast offline reference.

WDVL's Introduction to Web Design

From one of our sister sites, this thorough course ranges from the basics of HTML to advanced formatting topics. Also, don't miss WDVL's Intro to HTML.

Writing HTML the easy way

A tutorial to creating your own home page from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. Designed to help instructors create HTML learning resources.
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Easy Web Design For Affiliate Marketers - You Don't Have to Be an HTML Guru!

For many people eager to get into the affiliate marketing business, the construction and uploading of a website is a daunting prospect. Like much of information technology, web design utilizes a language of its own, much of it jargon, and those who don't understand it often feel intimidated. But it doesn't have to be that way!

Static or CMS?

Websites fall into one of two basic categories:

1. Those constructed of pages of HTML code linked together, or static websites, where a designer has to create a design for the site and a developer or programmer has to write the code to make it work. This is the traditional way, and is still perfectly acceptable for small sites, but it does require some knowledge and access to a server.
2. Content Management Systems (CMS) in which pages are generated dynamically from data stored in a database. It sounds complicated, and to be honest it is, but the great advantage for the user is that the interface is generally no more difficult to use than the average word processor. And a CMS has major benefits over a static website too:

* it can be edited via an ordinary browser
* it can be edited from anywhere in the world
* it can be edited by anyone with an appropriate login
* it needs no technical knowledge to operate
* Pages and menus are updated automatically
* it is incredibly versatile
* your website can be up and running in minutes

Open source software

The open source movement has been gaining strength in recent years and now offers a huge range of software available to the general public, most of it free of charge. This includes popular business programs like Open Office, and web creation software like WordPress, CMS Made Simple, Drupal and Joomla!

Let us look at each in turn.

Joomla

Joomla's predecessor, Mambo, was one of the earliest open source CMS systems available. Mambo is still currently available, but due to a dispute between its various founding factions it is now completely unrelated to Joomla. Joomla, however, remains extremely popular, partly because of its huge range of extensions, its massive range of themes and the almost endless customising capability it offers.

WordPress

WordPress is another open source platform, originally developed for blogging but also very suitable for creating a Content Management System. Once again it has a huge range of templates, many of them free, widespread support, popular forums and a massive selection of add-ons and plug-ins.

CMS Made Simple

CMS MS is yet another open source offering, often favoured by web developers because of its very good SEO capability. It is possible to customise a CMS MS website with your own template, so for example you could replace an existing static website with a content management system but keep the appearance identical.

Drupal

Drupal is also an open source CMS platform and is often used by professional web developers as a method of quickly creating websites for clients. Like the others, it has a huge range of customisation features, great support and plenty of sophisticated add-ons like shopping carts.

So which do you choose?

For most affiliate marketers, the website needs to be rapid to construct and easy and quick to edit so that he or she can concentrate on their content rather than the nuts and bolts. There are many marketers offering ready-made affiliate websites, usually incorporating a hosting plan and including ready-made areas where affiliates adverts can be placed. The content for these sites is often taken from article directories, and some even include links to these directories so that all the marketer has to do is select the one they like. One slight issue with this approach is that these sites tend to be "cookie cutter" -- in other words identical to a great many others.

Another approach is to use WordPress and customise the site with a ready-made template. This can be incredibly quick to implement - I have created a site and had it live within a couple of hours with this method - and offers a means of creating a unique site where the content and the colour scheme can be customized to suit the subject.

A search in ClickBank should return a number of vendors selling custom landing pages which can be used either in a static website or as an additional page in a WordPress site.

Conclusion

I have used all of the above methods to create websites, both for my own use and for clients, and for the Affiliate Marketer I would seriously recommend using WordPress. It is quick and easy to install if you have access a web server - it can be done with literally in a few clicks of the mouse. Version 3.0 has just been launched and is a very comprehensive package. There are many, many add-ins and plug-ins available, including a fantastic plug-in for auto responders, and the design is so flexible that it can be made to fit any topic whatsoever.

And best of all, it's free!

Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them

Most designers would have heard of the term ‘CSS Frameworks’, for those who don’t know or aren’t sure, here is a brief description from: Wikipedia:

A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage. .

Sounds great doesn’t it, something that is going to make designing and developing a website that little bit easier. It will take away the repeating of the same old boring stuff and if you write your framework correctly you will be guaranteed your code will meet W3C recommendations. That will leave you plenty of time to design your site, the fun side of the job!

There are a number of Frameworks you can freely download and use, you will need a fair bit of CSS knowledge, some patience and a fair bit of time to get yourself familiar with the layout. The page layout structure is pretty standard across almost all Frameworks, it could be: Header; Main Content; Sub Content; Local Nav; Main Nav; Footer. They also have simple layout structures: Vertical Nav; Horizontal Nav; One Column; Two Column… The variations on structure goes on and on… Any structure you want, basically.

What I am trying to say is that if you are a serious designer/developer you need to use a good Framework, something that in the long term is going to save you a lot frustrations and time. Maybe you will or already have written your own Framework. I have my own, well two actually. One purely for Wordpress and one for everything else. Not much difference in the two, but I do like to follow a particular method when designing for Wordpress, just my preference.

There is a lot more to CSS Frameworks than I have written here, but I am not going to bore you, download them and try them out. If you don’t like it don’t use, its not for everyone. As with everything else in the world there are a few critics of CSS Frameworks, the pros do outnumber the cons, its all about opinion.
As for me I love them, and I am very grateful to the writers of the following ten CSS Frameworks:
12 of the best CSS Frameworks

1.Elements CSS Frameworks (Source: Project Designs)

2.WYMstyle: a CSS framework (Source: Daniel Reszka)

3.YAML CSS Framework (Source: High Resolution)

4.YUI Grids CSS (Source: Yahoo)

5.Boilerplate CSS Framework

6.Blueprint CSS

7.Schema Web Design Framework
(Source: David Golding Design)

8.CleverCSS

9.Tripoli Beta CSS Framework
(Source: Monc)

10.ESWAT Web Project Framework
(Source: Philip Karpiak)

11.CwS CSS Framework
(Source: Content with Style)

12.My (not really mine) CSS Framework
(Source: That Standards Guy)