We’ve all seen the sites that make you think “Uh oh, amateur hour”. It’s easy for beginners to make some basic mistakes that give their sites an amateurish look. So how do you avoid giving that impression with your first website? Here are 20 tips to help you.
1. Look at lots of good and bad sites. Try to list what makes them look good or bad.
2. Keep your pages simple. Look at the way good magazines layout their pages.
Adding pictures and other graphics can lift your pages, add colour and life as well as make them easier to read. They can give novices to building webpages a real headache, though. Here is a simple guide.
The very first step to adding pictures is to make them the correct size for the space on your webpage. This means don’t just click on the picture in your html editor and push it to the right size because doing that doesn’t reduce the file size. If you do that and have a jpg that is 2mb, for example, even though the picture looks smaller, the file size will still be 2mb.
Tweetdeck - my preferred way of viewing Twitter
I really enjoy Twitter. I don’t have thousands of followers, just 286, nor do I follow thousands of people, only 197. That’s the way I like it. I don’t want to be the recipient of loads of spam tweets, constant plugs for websites, get rich quick schemes or messages concerned about my spiritual well being which I feel is my business not some stranger’s.
