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May
2001 (Part 2)
HTML Tip
: Easy Table Formatting
Formatting table cells takes a lot of time and effort. Since they don't
inherit formatting, you have to include specific font and background color information inside each cell.
This quickly gets tiring and frustrating. Use the TBODY attribute to format groups of rows in a table
with a single line of code. It eliminates a lot of extra HTML code that bloats your file size and
causes coding errors. Click here to learn more.
Design Tip
: Writing For The Web
In school, you learned to write documents that were formal, rigidly structured,
and relatively impersonal. While it still works in many situations, that style won't earn you any
A's from Web site visitors. When you're creating text for your Web site, remember the
"Three S" rule: keep it Simple, Succinct, and Scannable.
Click here to see these tips.
Promotion Tip
: Site Promotion With Web Rings
What do you do while you're waiting for visitors to find your new Web
site? It may take them a while: search engine spiders and directory editors are so
swamped with new sites that you may wait weeks - even months - before your site gets accepted.
Click here to read on.
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