Making your own website that works? Here is some tips from web design experts. I came across this while reading the Entrepreuner.com April 2007 magazine about designing a good website titled “The Right Stuff” by Melissa Campanelli.

The article provided ten tips about creating a good website. (more…)

Days are getting busier with the looming AGM coming into view in early April. Work at the office was filled with checking the arrangement of hotels and booking room reservation coupled with pre-checking of dinner menu. Because the head honcho of the company is coming over and we need to ensure everything goes smoothly according to request and arrangement. (more…)

You may want to make a list for easier presentation of information on your website. There are two types of list, unordered bulleted list and ordered numbered list.

To create the unordered list, you will use the “UL” tag together with the list item “LI” tag. There is no need to close the “LI”, as mentioned previously, not every tag will require a closing tag. However, you may still want to close the tag by using “/LI” for the sake of XML convention which requires a closing tag.

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The default text alignment for content in a paragraph is left side. Sometimes you may want to make the text align to the right or in the center. To make the text align to the left or right you include the align attribute to the paragraph tag.

Example, align to left: (more…)

When writing your content for your website, you may want to format your text to emphasize a point and make it stand out from the rest of the content. This is easily done by using the bold tag, italics tag and underline tag. (more…)

The HTML web page is separated into two sections: the head section and body section. Both these section is nested within the HTML tag which identifies the file as HTML code for browsers to recognize it as such.

The HEAD section is where you will provide the TITLE of your web page as well as where you will code the meta tags for search engine robots to determine how they should classify and categorize your web page. The HEAD section is also where you will insert your CSS and JavaScript code to further enhance the webpage. (more…)

You can create a HTML document using any text editor like Notepad, Wordpad for Windows, or Simple Text on the Mac. There is no need to buy any sophisticated HTML software like Microsoft Frontpage or CoffeeCup HTML editor. However, as your needs progress you may want to consider getting one. But meanwhile, any simple text editor will do just fine. (more…)

Let’s face it, even if you are planning to use the provided installation script to make a CMS website, blogging website or use the provided web builder from the web hosting provider, you still have to learn some HTML. There is no escape from getting your hands dirty into coding a web page. Programming a web site is a tedious affair. A page may not look the way you want it to, and you have to spend some time searching through the code to look for the source of error. (more…)

Yeay! Finally, I’m getting a new bed for my bedroom. Lena and I have been sleeping on the floor ala Japanese style for the pass several months. Having shifted our previous bed to the condo for full furnish rental. We had already scouted out the mattress and bed frame at Harvey Norman and just today, it was the last day of sale! Yes, we managed to get 20% off the sales price. (more…)

Either I enjoy just tweaking the website instead of really building it or I’m just plain old procrastinating from writing articles. Whatever, it is not good to do just that because I’ll not be adding additional articles. And search engines are just that, they love articles addition to your web site. Content is king as they say and Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc are just that. It means that your web site is alive and kicking when articles are constantly being added. (more…)