Curious how much web design changed in last 6-8 yrs

acharris

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Hi all, I was wondering peoples opinion on how web design has changed over the last 6 - 8 years? Reason I ask is cause back when I 1st start on pc and the like, I was not bad at designing web sites and created a page on the Space Shuttle program using frames and the like. Also help my M8 with a band site back 2000/01. and got an OCN for my site.

I took a break from web design and have been trying to get back into it in the last 6 - 8 months. I just can't seem to get my head around stuff like CSS and these days HTML in general, as I am struggling to remember the tags and stuff of basic HTML which I knew quite well then.

I have tried to create my own personal site with my retro console collection and put up photos, but all my tries at designing have lead to nothing being designed as I can't seem to get my head around it now.

Any tips or sites to help me get back to web design would be appreciated, as I feel frustated that I can't do web design anymore. Thanks.

Anthony
 
In brief:
Read:
w3c schools
html dog
Google is also your friend

Remember:
XHTML is content only
CSS is for the layout (styling) of your content.

That's it really.





(I said brief)
 
LeperousDust said:
In brief:
Read:
w3c schools
html dog
Google is also your friend

Remember:
XHTML is content only
CSS is for the layout (styling) of your content.

That's it really.





(I said brief)
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What he says is true, follow a few basic tutorials on CSS and you will be wondering how you use to design without it. Just remember IE6 has its own perverted rules for rendering CSS so design for FF / IE7 first then fix IE6.

If you get that far to fixing IE's CSS here is a link to previous reply I did about creating your own IE stylesheet.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17837536
 
If you're using Firefox, download the 'Web Developer Toolbar' for it.
This gives you some really good functionality. The ability to disable CSS, hide images, show page layout, change web browser screen size and so on.

Then go to http://www.csszengarden.com/

See what's possible with one site and many approaches to design using CSS.

When you turn off the CSS, you should be left with a site that is just text and images from top to bottom.

Forget about all the 'fancy' tags for now. As long as you remember headers, hyperlinks and paragraphs, you can build a basic site. Now start experimenting with simple CSS.
 
Back then the layout and the content were intermixed. These days you design the layout and drop the content in. i.e. do your content text, pictures, graphics etc.

And then do your layout - think of this as columns of a newspaper. the structure, if you like.

Then just drop your content in.
 
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