have learned are the basics and there is still a lot more to be mastered. But you now have a good
foundation from which to build on.
First, it is a good idea to maintain order and structure in your HTML documents. By posting
well arranged documents you will not only show others your mastery of HTML but will also
make it considerably easier for yourself to keep an overview.
Stick to the standards and validate your pages. This cannot be stressed enough: Always write
clean XHTML, use a DTD and validate your pages on validator.w3c.org.
Give your page contents. Remember that HTML is a tool, which enables you to present
information on the Internet, so make sure that there is information to present. Pretty pages
may look nice but most people use the Internet to find information.
Avoid overloading your pages with heavy images and other fancy stuff you have found on
the Internet. It slows down the loading of the page and could be confusing for visitors. Pages
that take more than 20 seconds to load can lose up to 50% of their visitors.
Remember to add your website to search engines/directories so people other than your
closest family can find and enjoy it. On the front page of all search engines, you will find a
link to add new pages The most important is Google, but there are also others
like DMOZ, Yahoo, AltaVista, AlltheWeb and Lycos.
In this tutorial, you have learned to use Notepad, which is a simple and very easy to use
editor, but perhaps you will find it helpful to use a more advanced editor which gives a
better overview and more possibilities.
CSS can be used for much more than specifying font types and sizes. For example, you can add
colours and backgrounds. Here are some examples for you to experiment with:
<p style="color:green;">Green text</p>
<h1 style="background-color: blue;">Heading on blue background</h1>
<body style="background-image: url('http://www.html.net/logo.png');">
GIF images are usually best for graphics and drawings, while JPEG images are usually better for
photographs. This is for two reasons: first, GIF images only consist of 256 colours, while JPEG images
comprise of millions of colours and second, the GIF format is better at compressing simple images,
than the JPEG format which is optimized for more complex images. The better the compression, the
smaller the size of the image file, the faster your page will load. As you probably know from your
own experience, unnecessarily 'heavy' pages can be extremely annoying for the user.
