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 | It's the week before Christmas, and you may be frantically searching for that last gift, or wondering what you should put in your annual cards. You should take a break and contemplate some web design. Or perhaps you don't celebrate Christmas, and you're looking for something to do that isn't colored red and green and focused on buy buy buy! This week I have two new articles on color families and meta tags and a refresh of an important older one on validating web pages. Enjoy, and have a Happy Holidays! Please forward this newsletter, in its entirety, to your colleagues, coworkers and friends, anyone you think would like to learn more about web design, HTML, and web development. | |
Understanding Color Families
Most websites have a color palette that they stick with. And while you've probably learned a lot about color theory and color harmony, the theory can be somewhat tedious to remember. An easier way to come up with pleasing color palettes is to think about what you want the site to convey: is it emotionally hot or a controversial topic? Then you might want warm colors to match that or possibly cool colors to keep the tone more cordial. Is your site formal and calm? Then cool colors can help convey that meaning and neutral colors can keep the emotions from flying high.
| Using the Copyright Meta Tag
It's very important that you understand copyright on the web both so that you can protect your own work and so that you don't inadvertently steal someone's property. But did you know that there is a meta tag you can use to define the copyright information of your web pages? This meta tag isn't technically used by any browsers or widely used applications (like search engines) but it is a way to get your copyright notice onto all your pages without impacting the design.
| Keep Your Site Tidy
It's no secret that writing web pages well is difficult. But one tool that many beginners dismiss is the validator. After all, web browsers don't care, so why should you? But the reality is that while web browsers will do their best to display the page even if you have thousands of errors, by writing valid HTML, you reduce the probability that errors might cause strange results. If your HTML isn't valid, and you don't know what's causing a design problem in one browser or anther, then validate it and fix the problems first, then see if your design issue is still there.
| Poll: What's your favorite web browser?
Lately I can't decide. I used to be a Firefox fan--it had all the plugins I used most (Web Developer Tools, CoLT, and screengrab), it was fairly fast, and it supported modern technology. But then this year Firefox developers went into a frenzy of updates. It seemed like every week I was being told to download a new version. And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks this. Every time the browser updates many of my plugins break as well. And many of them I use every day. It is very annoying to constantly lose plugins. What's your favorite web browser? Vote Now View Results
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