Web Design Resources
Improve your skills at site design
Blogs
Reading blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest ideas/trends etc. Reading web design blogs is no different, if you subscribed to the 5 most popular design blogs you would probably learn a new thing related to web design every day!
Smiley Cat - top quality blog discussing all areas of web design, new posts at least once a week with plenty of archived posts going back to 2003 to read!
CSS
CSS is an abbreviation of Cascading Style Sheets. It is a mechanism for defining style (font, size, color, spacing etc) on web documents. Using a stylesheet for your website has two benefits; it is quicker to edit style on your website & it reduces the size of web documents meaning they load faster using less bandwidth and improving users experience.
W3.org - Overview of CSS and main info about it.
w3schools - Free CSS tutorials, learn how to use CSS on your website.
HTML
HTML is an abbreviation of HyperText Markup Language. This is the format of files published on the World Wide Web, it is surprisingly easy to learn the basic features.
w3schools - Free HTML tutorials showing you how to use HTML on your own website.
SEO
SEO is an abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization. This is the process of designing the website to attract search engine spiders and improve the site's ranking for relevant keywords within a seach engine's results.
Wikipedia - Everything you could want to know about SEO.
seocompany - 136 tools to help you get high rankings & design a search engine friendly site.
Books
There are lots of books published about web development. Reading offline is a good way to get your eyes off the computer screen but still learning allowing you to continue to grow your business.
Amazon.com - They have over 24,000 books in their web development category so plenty to choose from!
Website Templates
If you are on a small budget and don't know how to design your own website you could use free templates, although a negative point is that hundreds of other websites may also have the same design as yours. You could download a free template, learn basic HTML and CSS skills and then edit the template so it is unique and what you want!
Search - there are tens of thousands of free templates to download, search yourself on Google to find the best providers.
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