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This Week’s:
Features
3 Types of Sites
5 Quick Improvements to Any Web Site
10 Quick Upgrades That Say “Professional”
Reviews
Robin Williams Has a String of Hits!
Homesite and BBEdit Are the HTML Editing Standards
Techniques
Horizontal Rules!
Vertical Rules!
I Need My Space
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It's a New Year and a new publication! This week we focus on the basics and quick fixes. (If only we could fix the damage we did to did to ourselves over the Holidays this easily...). In the Features find ways to give your web pages a fast facelift for the New Millennium. The Reviews are on books and software that provide you with information and tools you need to start the New Year right. And finally, a few belated virtual stocking stuffers can be found in Techniques.
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Features
3 Types of Sites
An individual web site (or a section of a large site) can have only one primary purpose and remain effective. The primary purpose of all web sites can be ... [more]
5 Quick Improvements to Any Web Site
1. Focus, Focus, Focus
Choose a specific target audience. Provide a benefit to your target audience that is uniquely useful to them... [more]
10 Quick Upgrades That Say “Professional”
1. Use a Plain, Flat-colored Background
Keep the appearance clean and neat. Your message is in your words and foreground images. Busy, patterned backgrounds distract. This is why... [more]
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Reviews
Robin Williams Has a String of Hits!
Robin Williams, the graphics designer that is. For several years now I've recommended “The Non-Designer's Design Book” and it's just as relevant today. With the simple mnemonic of PARC... [more]
Homesite and BBEdit Are the HTML Editing Standards
When Macromedia was developing their high-end web developers program, Dreamweaver, they bowed to the preferences of the professionals... [more]
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Techniques
Horizontal Rules!
Horizontal rules are the horizontal lines or bars that can be used to separating items on a web page. Used correctly, they can help organize disparate information... [more]
Vertical Rules!
Vertical rules can be handy to provide a visual structure to disparate information that needs to be presented on the same page, preferrably side-by-side... [more]
I Need My Space
Sometimes you just need a little space. David Seigel popularized the spacer image in his book, "Creating Killer Web Sites" but it's flagrant abuse led...[more]
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