Is Web Design the Next 'Must Have' Skill?
It wasn't so long ago that it started to become evident that everyone and their Grandmother would need to get comfortable with the use of computers just to survive in the world. Well that definitely came true as today, even placing a call to your local government offices requires interaction with a computer.
PREDICTION: The time is fast approaching when everyone will need to know at least the basics of HTML. (That's assuming, it hasn't already happened to some degree.)
If you follow business magazines and their predictions for the future, you will already know that the internet has only begun changing how we live. Yes, the internet itself is changing, looking quite different now then it did 10 years ago and what it will look like 10 years from now will likely not resemble what we are using today. With over 800,000 pages being created every single day, the internet is definitely here to stay for a while.
The general consensus as far as predictions are concerned is that 10 years from now we will see a whopping 70 - 80% of the population earning their living in some way through the internet. Today, while it looks like half the world is earning their way through the internet, it is actually less then 5%.
Finding Your Way Around
A Map Of What's Available Here
- HTML and Web 2.0
- Some Important Questions
- Count Down To Price Increase
- HTML is the spice on the internet. :-)
- A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
- Hosting Companies
- HTML Books
- Wayne's Tips # 1
- Free HTML Editors and templates
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Learn HTML Tutorials 1
- Fonts, Font Tools and Other Writing Related Things.
- Learn HTML Tutorials 2
- Website Design Books
- Digital Website Design/HTML Books and Courses
- HTML for Dummies
- Wayne's Tips # 2
- HTML and Website Design Resources
- Learn HTML Tutorials 3
- Adobe Fireworks
- What's Your Opinion?
- Graphics and Clip Art For Your Website
- Learn HTML Tutorials 4
- Making Money From Your Website
- A Review of A Beginner's Guide to Website Design
- Automated Content and Website Builders
- HTML Products on Ebay
- Killer Audio and Video For Your Website
- Wayne's Tips # 3
- Miscellaneous Website Tools
- We Would Love To Hear From You!
- Tools For More Advanced Beginners. :-)
- Featured Lenses That You May Find Of Interest
- Blog Posts from Google About HTML and Website Design
HTML and Web 2.0
As we move farther into the Web 2.0 phenomenon, HTML becomes more important.
Another consequence of Web 2.0 is that more and more employers are and will continue to require HTML as a common skill set for their employees. Learning HTML now and adding it to your resume will actually give you an advantage in the world of job searches.
The death of the paper directory is another prediction that is being spoken louder with each passing month. It actually takes less time to look up something on an internet based directory then it does a paper directory. Therefore, even the brick and mortar businesses will need to get with the times and do some of their business on the internet.
So what does all this have to do with HTML becoming the next 'must have' skill?
Some Important Questions
HTML is the next 'must have' skill.
Will you do it now with lots of time to practice? Or scramble to get it done when your job/business depends on it?
Will you do it the easy way with a great teacher and a step by step guide? Or piece it together bit by bit over months of frustation by yourself?
A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
(Ebook Price Increase is May 1, 2008)
HTML is the spice on the internet. :-)
-Why do you need to know how to use the spice?
Whether you are participating in the social atmosphere of Web 2.0 applications, writing an ad for your business or have a website, HTML is the spice that will make your public entries appealing, easy to read and eye catching. Even looking for a job is being done more and more often through the internet.
Did you pay to have a website created? Are you getting the search engine ranking you want? Have you noticed how difficult it is to get changes made to your website? What if you could do both for yourself in just a few minutes a week?
In order to maintain a reasonable ranking within the search engines, it is important to adjust and/or add content every single week. It only takes a few minutes - if you can do it yourself. If you are relying on a webmaster, it likely isn't happening with the ease, frequency and speed that it should be.
Everyone will, or perhaps does, need a basic understanding of HTML. Will you do it now? Or catch up later?
A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
By Wayne Parker
Below, you will find a selection of some of the very best resources available for learning HTML. I hope they assist you in learning what you want and need to know. If you get stuck, take another look at Wayne Parker's amazing ebook for beginners and take advantage of this master's willingness to share his secrets with you in a forum. He will also give you a free 'HTML cheat sheet' that you can print out and keep beside your keyboard where you are going to use it. Also, there is his biweekly tips and tricks newsletter. It's a hell of a deal if you ask me.
Visit Wayne's Book page for more information: A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
You can have your very first webpage created and launched in just a couple of hours following this step by step guide through the basics. No confusing advanced information - just the basics, you, your computer and the amazing teacher - Wayne Parker.
Hosting Companies
Places to put your website
- Site Ground
- Plug and play hosting. Wordpress module. One domain name comes with your membership. Very affordable!
This is our all time favorite. We've been working with siteground for a couple of years now and we really like their set up in that most of it is module based like squidoo.
They also have an affiliate program and bringing 3 people in will get your space free for the whole year. - Pair Networks
- We've been using Pair since the beginning of our internet adventure and as an all purpose, old fashioned hosting set up they've been absolutely reliable and consistant. They have really great support and they are very affordable.
- Square Space
- This system is far more then a hosting company. It is the most 'plug and play' of any hosting company we've seen, but they also have the price tag to match.
I would consider this program only if you are a professional with a bit of a budget and not a lot of time to get your web presence created.
Everything is included - squarespace replaces the need for forum software, blog software, a web host, databases, statistics software, and a host of other development and content management programs you'd need to integrate to get a similar website.
HTML Books
Wayne's Tips # 1
Have a folder created on your computer to store all your HTML pages along with associated images etc. Make sure there is a folder for each of your projects that are clearly labeled.
It is unbelievably frustrating to search all over your computer looking for the files needed to make your page work right. When they are stored in one place, it saves you a ton of searching time.
Free HTML Editors and templates
(More to come)
- Website Design Software India
- 250 Free Templates
- Coffee Cup
- Free Trial HTML Editor
- Alley Code
- Free HTML Editor
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Amazon Price: $398.99 (as of 07/19/2008)
The Grand-daddy of all HTML editors. For the serious web designer or dedicated entrepreneur/internet marketer.
The ideal solution for quickly and easily designing, developing, and maintaining websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment. Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts. Build and maintain web applications using the latest development technologies, including Ajax, PHP, and Adobe ColdFusion. Incorporate Adobe Flash Video into websites and applications with five clicks of a mouse. Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow.
Fonts, Font Tools and Other Writing Related Things.
- High quality fonts
- Download the fonts you love. :-) Free!
- Font Tester
- Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. Free!
- Better Fonts
- 10,000 free fonts and counting!
- What is Lorem Ipsum?
- Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Learn more here.
- Word HTML Cleaner
- A tool to strip Microsoft's proprietary tags and other superfluous noise from Word-generated HTML documents, leaving all the basic goodness intact. File sizes are greatly reduced, and the returned markup is easier to read, revise and employ.
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
- The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
- TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts
- Download free fonts at TypeNow.net - The Web's BIGGEST Typography Resource. Over 6000 free fonts for you to download
- Abstract Fonts - your type - 10 000 Free Fonts
- Abstract Fonts
Website Design Books
Digital Website Design/HTML Books and Courses
- A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
- This inexpensive digital book takes you step by step through the basics by master website designer Wayne Parker. If you want to build a website or just learn HTML for Web 2.0 applications, then this book is exactly what you need.
Those who purchase the book also receive a free printable HTML cheat sheet, Wayne's Tips and Tricks bi-monthly newsletter and access to the author himself in a private forum to get your questions answered by the master himself.
You just can't lose with this offer; get taught by the best in a language you can understand and never feel alone in trying to figure out what seems confusing.
100% 30 day Money Back Guarantee - Web Design Mastery
- Professional Web Site Design Made Easy.
Become a master yourself with this intense comprehensive program. - One Hour HTML
- A digital course that teaches HTML in one hour. :-) 8 Week Money Back Guarantee
- Web & Graphics Design Video Tutorials
- Learn Website Design and the Graphics needed to brighten it up in one fell swoop!
- Dreamweaver Tutorials - Learn Dreamweaver Web Design
- This Is The Dreamweaver Course Specifically For Entrepreneurs! Take Advantage Of This Splendid Website Design Tool To Quickly Implement Your Business Ideas On The Internet. Make Money With Adsense, Commission Junction Or Selling Your Own Infoproducts.
- Step By Step Web Design Course Using Dreamweaver & Fireworks
- A great course specificly designed for Dreamweaver and Fireworks HTML editors.
HTML for Dummies
HTML 4 For Dummies, 5th Edition
Amazon Price: $19.59 (as of 07/19/2008)
If The Beginner's Guide To Website Design isn't for you, may we recommend the next best thing.
Wayne's Tips # 2
We've all experienced the dreaded computer crash. Just about finished an amazing project and bam, you lose it all.
Always save a copy of the latest version of your creation on an external source somewhere. Make duplicate copies - whatever it takes to ensure your creations are safe and protected against those nasty
crashes.
HTML and Website Design Resources
(More to come)
- A Beginner's Guide To Website Design
- Learn Website Design the easy way! From securing server space to adding photos.
- HTML Playground
- A handy tool to find code you need. Free!!
- W3 Schools
- The most complete source of website design Free!! tutorials on the internet.
- Web Developers Field Guide
- Tons of code, both beginners and advanced. Free!!
- HTML Code Tutorial
- Welcome to the HTML Code Tutorial. Our goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere.
- Tutorialized
- Where everything from HTML and flash to Photoshop and Paintshop are a tutorial.
- Web design from scratch
- A complete guide to designing web sites that work.
Ben Hunt has been a successful web designer and developer for over 10 years. He publishes this site to share his experience in making web sites that are appealing, easy to use, and successful. - HTML Tags
- HTML Tags, a free online cheatsheet by VisiBone I hope you find this HTML quick-reference useful. Here are all HTML tags with attributes and values for XHTML 1.1,
also known as HTML 4.01.
Adobe Fireworks
Adobe Fireworks CS3
Amazon Price: $297.99 (as of 07/19/2008)
The ideal solution for rapidly prototyping websites and web application interfaces. Create and edit both vector and bitmap images in one application. Optimize vector and bitmap images for the web. Offers tight integration with related tools, including Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flex. Ideal for Web and interactive content designers and developers, higher education faculty and students, and experienced graphic designers
What's Your Opinion?
We don't know everything. Neither do the experts. :-)
We wanna know what YOU think!
After all, what you think is the only thing that matters in your world. ;-)
Graphics and Clip Art For Your Website
- Web Graphics & Clipart Explosion
- 98mb Of Graphics, 1600 Quality Clipart, 100s Of Headers, Monthly Downloads - And More. Dont Thow Money Away. Get Instant Access To Our Huge Graphics Library Packed With All The Resources You Need To Sky Rocket Your Website Sales And Save Money Guaranteed.
- Web & Graphics Design Video Tutorials
- For the Adventurous: Learn Web and Graphics Design at the same time.
- Well Styled Color Scheme
- A tool that reduces color schemes to web friendly colors.
- Colr.org
- A tool to help you find colors in images for your website or graphics
- FavIcon from Pics
- the first web tool for creating still / animated favicons from regular images.
- curvyCorners
- curvyCorners is a free JavaScript program that will create on-the-fly rounded corners for any HTML DIV element, that look as good as any graphically created corners.
- Color Blender
- The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
- Tutorialized
- Where everything from HTML and flash to Photoshop and Paintshop are a tutorial.
- HTML Colors @ W3 Schools
- Learn about HTML colors
- VisiBone
- HTML Color Codes
- Buttonator
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Making Money From Your Website
- Magic Money Makers
- This course is good for both those who have a website AND those who dont. Learn not only the how's but also the where's and why's of internet marketing. This email course is free and will give you a deep understanding of how things work. With an understanding like that, you can begin to create your own plan for intenet marketing - with or without a website.
This course is offered by Kat McCarthy, 3 business degree holder and a successful internet marketer for over 6 years now.
Besides, it's FREE, how can you go wrong? - The Internet Marketing University
- This is the internet marketing university we attend. We love it because they lay everything out step by step and the whole internet marketing question becomes so easy that a 12 year old could do it.
We spent thousands of dollars over the years on programs and books. We found all of that information and so much more contained in this one place for the cost of a single book per month. Not only that, bring 2 friends and your tuition is paid.
It's a hell of deal compared to the programs out there that cost thousands and only tell you one or two pieces of the puzzle. - Super Affiliate Handbook
- If you're tired of the B.S. and want the truth about working as an Affiliate marketer - stick around - the Super Affiliate Handbook's step-by-step business plan could do for you what it has done for thousands of others - change your life for the better!
A Review of A Beginner's Guide to Website Design
Allow me to start by saying:
Yes, I am Wayne Parker's partner!
And...
Yes, it is unconventional of me to write a review for my partner's new ebook!
And...
I have very good reason.
Hi. My name is Kat and I want to tell you a story about how Wayne's new ebook impacted me.
I've been working on the internet for a dozen years or so now; yet, I could never wrap my head around using HTML. It seemed difficult, complicated and way too much effort. Of course, I had Wayne so if something really needed to be done, I would ask him to do it.
I was an HTML dork. :-) Simple tags like bold where beyond my ability to remember and apply with ease. But not anymore!! Here's how it happened:
A while back he told me he was going to write an ebook for beginner's who wanted to learn HTML but found the sources available to confusing. He was going to write the whole process right from securing server space, through basic search engine optimization all the way to a finished product - and he was going to write it in everyday language anyone could understand.
Great! Off he went and he wrote 'A Beginner's Guide To Website Design.' It wasn't that long before he was finished - he really knows his stuff!!
The time came for me to edit his ebook. Like I depend on him for developing our web content, he depends on me for most of the writing and for editing everything he writes. Fair trade don't ya think?
It took me a bunch of days to edit the ebook and during that time, something amazing happened...
Suddenly...
Yes! Suddenly...
I understood and could write most of the basic HTML he was teaching in his book - comfortably!!
I could probably create a basic webpage now. :-)
Admittedly, some strings of code are a little difficult for my brain to remember more than 5 minutes.
But... Now I have his handy dandy cheat sheet (one of the wonderful bonuses he gives with every purchase) printed out and sitting beside my keyboard - problem solved.
Pretty cool eh?
Now if my word isn't enough for you, please drop by the webpage where Wayne is selling his ebook. He has a whole page of testimonials there from other excited readers.
A Beginner's Guide To Website Design.
From this HTML dork to anyone willing to listen: Ya gotta buy this ebook if you want to learn HTML and website design in the swiftest, easiest manner possible!
What a trip!!
Kat McCarthy
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Automated Content and Website Builders
These products either create content rich websites or automatically feed original content onto your website.
- CaRP: Rss To Html Converter
- This converts any content (like blog content for example) into html for use on a website.
- The Rss Evolution
- Create Full Websites, Filled With Completely Unique Content And Laser Targeted To Any Keywords You Want, In Less Than 2 Minutes.
- SiteBuilder Elite.
- Build Dozens of Webpages In Minutes.
Killer Audio and Video For Your Website
If you are wanting a professional look and feel to your website - especially if you are intending to sell your own product or service, using youtube is probably not the best solution.
There are other options out there that are affordable that allow you to be in complete control of the audio and video on your site while maintaining that professional look. Here are just a few that we recommend...
- Audio Acrobat
- We use this one and we find it to be the simplest way to create, host and post audio and video on a website or anywhere for that matter. An absolute beginner to running a website would find this to be a really easy to use tool with great free training calls and wonderful support.
It is based on the web and so there is it accessible from anywhere.
Audio is created by calling into a phone line or uploading something that has been previously created.
Video can be created through on site software though we find the quality better if we create our video through the system that came with our web cam and then uploading the video for hosting.
You can also create (multiple) testimonial lines that your clients can call in and leave you feed back that you can later post on your website for potential clients to hear. - Easy Web Audio Wizard
- Put Streaming Audio On Your Website! This is a software package for creating and posting killer audio for your website.
- Video Web Wizard Software
- Put Streaming Video On Your Website! This is a software package for creating and posting killer video for your website.
- Video Pop-In Genius!
- Catch The Online Video Wave Today and Offer Visitors To Your Website a Pop Up Video!
This is a software package that is unique and cutting edge. - Easy Web Video
- Another Software Package Option for Placing Video on Your Website
- Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
- Editor Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Wayne's Tips # 3
Accuracy is very important when building a website. While some HTML editors have an HTML checker, others don't. For those who don't you can use a free one at
W3 Consortium called HTML Validator.
Check your code every time you complete a page and save yourself a lot of grief!">
Miscellaneous Website Tools
- Auto Responder.
- Having a newsletter is a very important part of monetizing your website. A newsletter allows you to build the all important list and create a relationship with your subscribers.
This one is the best that we have ever found, reliable email, unlimited autoresponders, flexible, sophisticated, affordable and all this rolled into a great support team.
There is also an affiliate program attached and you can easily earn yours free in a short period of time. - HTML Validator
- A free tool to validate the code on your new website. Saves you tons of frustration over mistakes. Free!!
- script.aculo.us
- script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
- Web Form Factory
- A tool that generates the HTML code for a web form for you. For example, to collect email addresses and other data.
- htm2pdf
- This site is a service to convert your webpages to pdfs. A great way to back up your web content.
- Create site tours with Amberjack
- Amberjack is a lightweight Open Source library, enabling webmasters to create cool site tours.
- Crazyegg - Visualize your visitors
- Supplement your analytics with stunning visuals and actionable data
- How to keep bad robots, spiders and web crawlers away
- Many so called webbots or web spiders are currently used for many different things on the Internet. Examples include search engines that use them to catalog the Internet, email marketing people that search for email addresses and many more.
- How to Create and Submit Websites to Search Engines like Google
- Automatically add your URL for FREE to over 70 of the most important indexes and search engines! Learn how to apply to Yahoo, win awards, and improve search engine ranking.
- 15 Website Elements That Attract Visitors
- A quick list of website elements and components that make a website attractive and effective.
We Would Love To Hear From You!
Please leave us a comment. All are welcome - Kudos encouraged. :-)
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richgerman
i really appreciate your lens. good source of information. 5 stars! Posted July 14, 2008 |
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Michaud68
Thanks for the information I'm think about starting my own website 5*'s and a favorite Posted June 29, 2008 |
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mulberry
HTML and website design are critical...and I should know because I knew absolutely NOTHING about them until recently. Posted May 16, 2008 |
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flowergardener
Excellent resources! It must have taken you awhile to build this lens, and it shows :) Posted March 22, 2008 |
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JaguarJulie
Hi Wayne and Kat! I totally agree with you about HTML becoming a necessary skill ... I'd go so far as to add to that JAVASCRIPT and CGI scripting. I think, in addition to Microsoft Word type programs, that everyone will buy a computer in the future with HTML building software. Thanks for dropping by my LOTD lens today! I sure do appreciate it. Trust me -- hours and hours of work have gone into my 300 lenses!!! Posted March 07, 2008 |
Tools For More Advanced Beginners. :-)
- CSS Cheat Sheet
- CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a new feature being added to HTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any Web page.
The term cascading derives from the fact that multiple style sheets can be applied to the same Web page. CSS was developed by the W3C. - Nice and Free CSS Templates
- This site contains free css templates for your website - Just copy and paste and there you have a stunning website !
- Free CSS Templates
- An assortment of free CSS templates, downloadable in .Zip format
- The Open Design Community
- The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing hundreds of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.
- CSSplay
- CSSplay deals with experimental CSS and that is exactly what you get - JUST CSS, no javascript or any other programming language has been used in any of the demonstrations.
- Clean CSS
- CSS Formatter and Optimiser
- Dynamic Drive
- Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!
- Dojo
- The Javascript Toolkit
- SimpleViewer
- SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.
- Flash Kit
- Flash Tutorials
- Tutorialized
- Where everything from HTML and flash to Photoshop and Paintshop are a tutorial.
- Vanilla 1
- Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!
- Ruby on Rails
- Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.
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