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Is CSS more difficult than forms?

Some people think that CSS layout is not as good as the form layout. A myth is that CSS is hard to learn. In fact, CSS is not hard than other Web technologies. The problem is: web designers very experienced in the form design have to give up their way of thinking to switch to CSS.

I have designed for many years with form layout. When I first started using CSS layouts, I also encountered a problem. I thought the simple use of form at that time. However, it was only because I have been used to form, I know how to manipulate them.

Recalls the first time I learn to use table layout, there are a lot of the same problems afflicting me. Think back to those rowspans, colspans and blank GIF image, to be fair of the two layout methods, the use of form layout is more difficult.

Another old-fashioned view is: CSS design page (bytes) is very large, large than the form design page. The reason is: Because you place all styles of the whole site in one file, when a user visits a page, that contains the site’s style sheets style need to be downloaded, the page is very large. Then why do you want to have all the styles in a CSS file. No one limits you to only use a CSS file. You can completely set up a separate sub style sheet file for the details style of part section. In my experience, from simple brochure-type sites to large database-driven, multi-system web site, I have never been used only a single style sheet file. And the code of a home page is less than that designed by table. Those table, tr and td tags occupy a large space. With a CSS layout methods to slash down your file size.

When you use table layout, you have lost their semantic labels. Web standard method of separation of content and the presentation layer will bring huge benefits. When you lock your design with form, if you need to change it, you must find this page, and then analyze the table structure, then change one page after another. The CSS file can simply change the design of the site. With CSS you do not consider device-independent nature, without regard to the user to choose their own styles.

Also heard that a form of “good”: design forms. But the forms can realize table arrange by any methods. Is that for Netscape4? I have never heard of supporting such an old browser is one reason. User’s interests of most mainstream browsers are far greater than the interests of the minority users of not supporting the style sheet (not to mention that CSS also supports plain text).

If you want to break out, to make page content more common, easy to use, the code is further reduced, then use CSS to change. Course, if you are a new learning of web design, from scratch, you will not have these problems.

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Mainland China absolutely bans smoking in all indoor public places next year

Since January 2011, the mainland will completely ban smoking in all indoor public places, indoor workplaces, public transport and other possible outdoor workplaces.

Sincerely hope that this provision can be executed all the while.web design

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Immediately methods to improve PV

Immediately methods to improve PV

To make a website is very hard, and there is usually no shortcut. However, the following should be able to provide you with few suggestions. This is my suggestions for improving the site and the page views in shortest time. Just a few minutes, you can follow these recommendations to make changes to your site and you will increase page views.

Availability / accessibility

If people cannot easily use your site, they are not interested in your site.

1. Site Navigation

Your site navigation should be easy to use. You have to ensure new visitors to easy and quickly find the content what they need through your site navigate.

2. Search box

If you do not have a search box, I suggest you add one up, because the navigation and sometimes are not enough. Adding a search box may take a long time, but adding Google search box such third-party search box on the website is very fast.

3. Click here

Get out all the “click here” in your website, the visitor will not by clicking on the “Click here” understand the inside contents.

4. Title & Alt Attributes

If you have not used it, it is best to use now. And join it to the navigation page and all pages.

5. Generality

If your site has some bad code, for example: setting size of browser window, opening new pages in the new windows , which may make visitors feel aggrieved, it is best to remove them.

Search Engine Optimization – SEO

1. Title

Find out related but not identical title on each page. Check whether they are short and to express the content of the article.

2. Internal links

Use more internal links in your page, which is as important as the external links.

3. Strengthen Keywords

This is probably the easiest things. Strengthen a number of key words and phrases, plus some special tags (such as bold and italic font), but it cannot be used too often.

4. Headers

Proper use of header (in the semantics, logic) can produce unexpected results. H1 is very important. Try to use some key words.

5. Do not over-SEO

web design / development process

1. Appearance / Image

Do your utmost to make your site look beautiful and pretty, but do not forget that these appearance / image to fit your site, but also take into account the issue of network speed.

2. Design from the beginning of the most basic

You do not need to start web design with design software. The best way would be to use a pen to draw the rough layout on paper. You have to confirm the location of the various elements. You may later consider aesthetic.

3. Contrast / Text Size

Ensure that the contrast and text size can be accepted by most people. There is not any gold or gold value ratio, you can see more how to set by other people and draw a good experience, because you think perfect while other people may not think so.

4. Uniqueness

Have our own uniqueness from the functional. There are many websites, if you do not have their own uniqueness; it is difficult to remember you by other people.

5. Test

Every time making major modifications to your site, have a variety of ways to test your web site. The more ways, the better is.

Website content

1. The content and space.

Do you often hear these words: “We want to fill this space, so the text will be accommodated a little more?” Remember, not the more text the better is. Too much text will make readers generate unpleasant emotional.

2. Write articles for your readers.

Can others not understand your article? Think about your readers, get rid of some confusion in the sentence to make the language easy and understand.

3. Write out the characteristics of your website clearly

4. Looking for what readers love.

Look for your favorite article to find out the reader’s interest.

5. Add your goal in the article.

Add psychology suggests in the writing content that the readers can note the goal you want to achieve (For example, want readers to register). Try to guess what the user’s goal is (For example, read the information). Add appropriate hint in your content (To find these information only a simple registration)

Outside your site

1. Communicate with others.

Communicate with others in forum, blog and portal site and find ideas for others, which can build a good image and bring unexpected results.

2. Study:

Listen more comments, whether colleagues, competitors or potential customers.

3. “Viral” promotion

Inform the people around you of your website content by the means of communication via e-mail.pay attention: only you know.

4. Be yourself:

5. Do not be really viral promotion

This will destroy the image of your site.

I hope these suggestions are useful for your web design.

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Thinking about troubling personal website bigger and stronger

It has more than two months since starting creating the site, but unfortunately traffic still has not increased. Although he is very hard, but there is not effective. Is personal website so difficult to do? The answer of course is no. Now the threshold of building websites is lower and lower. Some people just see the article said, the number of China individual owners is 100-150 million. But another cruel question is that the strong and big individual sites are few.

Why? Where is the reason for this?

The content amount is not up.

Site has not the actual and rich content, even if you do a lot of publicity, which are very influential to the station’s development and repeat the visit and the first landing visitors. Lack of content for first time users can cause them to feel no future and stay less time. From the background statistics, we can understand viewers basically close the pages within a few seconds. Retention time is very important indicator on a station’s traffic. If the site is perceived no future by its users, the possibility of the visitors to come back for the second time is very low. The person who has been able to maintain second glance is only himself since starting creating the site. Therefore, the importance of the content is first. So for everyone.

Website content and orientation does not meet.

Since having the site-orientation, the content should ensure the content related to the orientation by all means. And the absurd thing is that some people are not clear about what their own personal web sites locate. Some people do not grasp the core content, instead blindly expanding channel. The result only makes sites look flashy, wide but not special.

Pursuit of gorgeous, and despise the content

Many people prefer to make their web site very beautiful with dynamic. There is nothing wrong to make your website more beautiful. But many people fail to pay more attention to the contents. Users to your website are not intended to find the beautiful but the things they are looking. This is the focus of your web design.

The reason that web site traffic cannot get mentioned is certainly not the only. If we do with heart, think about with heart, there will be some discovery.

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Web design suitable for printing

Your site appears to be running smoothly. You test it in different browsers, different resolutions and the effect is good. HTML accords with the standard. CSS has no errors. Even if these conditions are normal, there may be other problems. We often consider the display status, but ignored the other devices, for example, many web designers ignore the widespread used printer.

Reason

The more website text, the more you should consider printer issues, because many people do not like to read large text in the display, but like to print down so that they can carry such written material. However, if the content is not easy to read print, they can hardly satisfy.

If website page is print-friendly and high availability, it is easy for users to promote the website.

Method

You can use many methods to ensure a good print results page. I personally prefer the use of CSS. While some older browsers do not support, you can use CSS, then you do not need to create a separate page print version and this page will render the same layout in different browsers.

Before the use of CSS, you can quickly browse HTML Help’s CSS Tutorial, unless you already know CSS. The most important point is that you need to be familiar classifier, because we will use the following.

Open Notepad and start creating an external style sheet file.

Modify the layout

First remove the useless content in page print version, including banner ads, navigation menus, and other unwanted images. You can add a new style sheet class to complete this task.

Then you need to set the page width. If the page is too wide, it is suitable for print.

Page layout containing a fixed width table width usually cause problems. The solution is to use relative widths, or cannot set too big a fixed width. To make a good print page, width cannot exceed 600 pixels.

CSS does not need to consider as HTML Help, so it is easy to modify the form size, for example, you can define the following 100% of the relative width:

BODY { background-color: white; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black }

Do not forget the following!

Next, consider the font problem. Display font is not necessarily the ideal print fonts. Sans-serif fonts, such as Arial, is generally considered the most suitable site font, but Times New Roman is considered the best print fonts.

Of course, we also need to consider the font size. Fonts must be large enough to facilitate users to read, but if too large, will take up unnecessary space.

I think the best font size for the 12-14pt.

If the page background color is white, the text is black. Some printers can print the background image, and indeed the color, but usually a waste of ink.

Worse, if the text color and background color close to print the content will be difficult to read.

We can change the contents of the BODY tag, so further than the convenience of using classifier changes. By the following CSS content, you can set the font Times New Roman font in black, 12pt, white background:

BODY { background-color: white; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black }

Implement

After setting up their own needed style sheet, linked it with HTML files. You just need to add the following in label:

BODY { background-color: white; font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black }

Now, you need to do is in the appropriate using the new classification, I hope you can show a good page to print results.

Make a web design suitable for printing.

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Rapidly improve your sales

When studying IT investment opportunities, I found a constant factor: All the people making big money have an interesting, simple, attractive and clear website.

Creating a co-operative style of website is likely to significantly increase your sales. Make your website more professional, it is very important, especially if you want to attract big money. Co-operative style website has clear, simple, attractive and easy to operate navigation system. You will not see the flash button on the inside, or more than 10 different text colors, or a page full of all things, or is placed advertisements in the corner.

Have you ever visited the websites that make you headache? Other visitors may also have the same feelings. When people find this site’s style is simple and clear type, they will increase their chances of reading the content of your site. Site manifestations are the most important. You should let people subconsciously feel that your website content is what they need. Internet is not to meet someone. In order to increase our sales performance, you should find some way subconsciously tell your visitors about the content of your business and let them think you are in their best business partner.

Only 2 seconds to allow visitors to your web site have a bad impression

The whole process is took place a few seconds in the site visit. 70% first time visitors to your site and only 4% of people will come back again. If you simply clear your site, it appears to be a clear style, and then the reality is that overnight, coming back from 4% to 10%.

Restructure your existing website is very important:

Many people re-structure its own website on average of three years, and doing so can increase their volume of business overnight. So, like them, if your site has not been updated for 10 years, Should you consider quickly updated for a while? Web site update is just as turning a new page, so quickly put forward new programs making visitors a steady stream and welcomed by visitors.

The importance of “advance with times”:

Keep the site fresh and make a positive update, which will visitors find the reason of view the site from another point. This is not only simply because it will attract their interest and also increase their curiosity. Note here: If monthly updates, the result would not be too good.

Human beings are easily agitated in:

It is very easy to allow visitors to your website lose curiosity. So what in the end it will lead to this failure?

Over time content

Too many broken links

Contact form does not work.

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