Fundamental HTML and CSS Website Designing for a Firm

Web design is an amazingly versatile business around the globe and some try and do it alone, other will simply hire a coorporation to do it, but why is it so popular? I will tell you…





Websites are a gateway to customers, they allow your customers to interact with your company without the need of any employees, or effort, in fact your website can even be your biggest asset!





So you have decided you want a web pagee, but now what? The first road to mull over is a good website design company, obviously I am going to vouch for my site, Baker Designs (Link at the end) but it is totally up to you. Take a look at the packages on my site and look at the deals on the design page. Web design companies are a better way to get a website than to study all the code yourself, and is, in most cases, it costs less then hiring a web designer on contract.





OK, so you have got to this part, which means that you are going to stick it out to try and learn some basic rules, tips and tricks about web designing by yourself.





To get going with you need to look at a code called HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language). This is what your web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome etc.) will read at first and this code will command the layout of the page, links to various pages or sites and the text on the page. A website can be made from 100% HTML if you want, however if you have ever seen one of these, they do not look very eye catching. This is because there are not numerous styling commands in the HTML code, by this I mean colours, fonts, background images etc. Please don’t get me wrong, all of these things CAN be achieved by HTML but it is not very capable and there is a better way…





CSS. Cascading Style Sheet. It does what it says on the tin. It styles your document. It is a lot more efficient then styling with HTML and is easy to learn. CSS basically tells your browser how to show the HTML. For example if the HTML tag was"

Hello

" which would be displayed as "Hello". A simple paragraph tag. Now to adjust the way the hello looks we use CSS. The first thing to do is to say to the style sheet what we want to target. In this case the "

" tag. So we write "P(open curly bracket here)" Now inside the curly brackets we can place things that will adjust the way the text looks. Commands like "font-size:16px;". At the end of the list of commands we close the curly brackets.





Of course if you don’t want all your paragraphs to look identical there is a way…





Putting a "." In front of any name will tell CSS that it is not to style the HTML tag with that name, but it is to locate a HTML tag with that "Class Name". I will demonstrate: "

Hello

". The CSS for this would be: ".hellotext(Open curly) font-size:16px;(Close Curly)" just to change the font size.








If you do decide to want a web design firm, please consult my site,





Baker Designs - Web Design Halifax