Sunday, August 16, 2009

WEBSITE DESIGN

Here are the website links, which Tony Jordan gave us, in last
Thursday’s talk on web design …

Web-hosting services
www.weebly.com
www.angelfire.lycos.com
www.110mb.com

N.B.Your internet service provider may offer free webspace for you.

Web-safe fonts:
www.fonttester.com/web_safe_fonts.html

Web-safe colours:
www.w3schools.com/Html/html_colors.asp

Hit counters:
easy-hit-counters.com
www.statcounter.com

Validators:
www.w3.org/QA/Tools/#validators

FTP uploaders:
www.ftpcommander.com/free.htm
http://filezilla-project.org
www.ipswitchft.com/products/ws_ftp_home/gethomefree

Submit to Google:
www.google.com/addurl

Rendering tests:
www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
acid3.acidtests.org

Text tutorials:
www.w3schools.com

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Tony sent me the following videos you can watch ...

Getting a domain name and web hoster:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHc5wB-u8w

HTML & CSS from scratch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQMnpUsj8I

Making a website with a free CSS template:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBHl27YoPyA

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JH adds … there are 4 more very good tutorials on CSS by Lisa Irby,
starting with the following … http://tiny.cc/LLP60


I’ve started a small Notts U3A Network group on web design, and have
created a few websites which you might be interested in having a look at …

On setting up a site on Webs dot com
http://jwebsdesign.webs.com/

Using Gimp, Kompozer, Angelfire, FTP Commander, Weebly & Inkscape
http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/

Using 110MB ..
http://jwebdesigns.110mb.com/index.php?p=1_5_110MB-com

I’ve used Weebly to create our new Network website
http://www.nottsu3anetwork.org/