Web Design Basics

This section of Iron Spider is intended for those who already have some basic HTML experience and are now ready to start pumping out a series of full-blown web pages in preparation to launch a website on the internet.

In this section you can expect to learn about the importance of using a 'template' to create all the pages on your website and about what it takes to make your web pages more user friendly.

This includes the following:

And most important of all...

Here is a quick rundown of all the pages in this section including an introductory paragraph and links to the full tutorials...

Tables vs. Tableless Design

You may have heard of tableless design (and all the pious hullabaloo about web standards that generally goes along with it) but before you dive headlong into all that is entailed in creating and managing a tableless design, you may want to get the 411 on exactly what you're getting into. This page outlines some of the main differences between using HTML tables to design your website or using DIV elements and CSS floats to design your website (the latter of which is known as 'tableless' design). This will help you make up your mind which direction you want to go in...

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Using Tables for Layout

Okay so assuming you're willing to take some heat from other holier-than-thou web designers who frown upon using HTML tables to layout your web pages, this page will show you exactly how to do it...

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Example Table Layouts

Here are some example HTML table layouts you can use to create a template for your website. Featured are a simple two-column layout, two columns with a header, two columns with a header and footer and finally, a three column layout with a header and footer. This page shows how each layout looks and provides the full HTML code to create it...

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World's Crappiest Web Page

What better way to learn how to make a good web page than to see exactly what is entailed in making a really crappy web page. Here you'll learn everything you need to know about annoying visitors to your website to no end including how to make slow loading pages, how to use lots of typos, how to use the wrong size font, the importance of javascript errors and more... (heh heh...)

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