........1. Organize your site from the beginning. If you organize the folders, for your site, before you begin creating your.pages, then you will always be able to find your pages when you need them.
- Name your pages and graphics in a way in which it will be easy to find them later. When you have groups of pages or graphics that are similar, give them similar names. For instance, if you have a group of pages with stories about your son, start the name of each file with "son". The file names could be: sonpark, sonschool.
- Keep your graphics sizes small. When the pixel size of your graphics is too big, it takes too long for your page to load. Your readers may not stick around long enough to see you graphics if they are made to wait.
- Put large graphics on a separate page. Create a page especially for your large graphic. Link to it from your page and label the link with something telling your readers that it will take a long time to download. They will wait to see it if they are warned ahead of time.
- Use Pictures of Quality. High quality photos or images can make or break the quality of a website. Be sure to use the best ones you can get.
- Update your site regularly. When people come to your site, they are looking for information about you, or whatever your site is about. If they like your site, they will come back again. When they come back, they will be looking for more information. If you don't have something new for them to look at, they may not come back again. Give them what they want and add more information regularly.
- Test your page with different browsers and browser settings. Your pages may look different to different computers depending on the browser they are using and the settings they have set. Finding out how your pages look to others will help you create better pages.
- If using a non-default font, also use alternatives. If you are using a font, for your Web page, that is not a common font, you should specify a common font for your readers who don't have that font on their computer.
- Make your <title> description descriptive. Search engines key on these words so they should have words that are in your page. If your site is about sewing your title could be something like, "Sewing with Thread to Make Blankets Shirts Clothes Dolls". Don't use punctuation except a dash, if necessary.
- Don't use too much white space. If you put too much white space on your page it will just look uncompleted. Some is necessary because you don't want your page to look crowded, but too much will look, spacey.