Tips for the new web designer.

This first article is meant to provide some helpful tips for those just learning to build websites. I am not going to go into details explaining specific technology; rather I am going to point out a few things that many people just starting may find useful.

Learn (at least) some basic HTML.

Whenever I suggest this to beginners they always ask why should they learn to code HTML when you have programs like Dream weaver and FrontPage that do it all for you? The short answer is that they don’t, at least not all the time. While these programs are very useful (and I highly recommend that all web page designers learn to use one), they do have their limitations where it can be easier to hand code the HTML yourself. If you don’t know HTML, this can be a problem. You don’t have to learn everything there is about HTML, but you should learn the basics and some key tags that are used all the time: