5 Things Every Web designer Should Know

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5 things every webdesginer should know. Do you know all of these? so, you are planning to become a serious web designer? Or you think you already are? Check out o­n these 5 things and see if you confirm to all of these! 1. There is more than o­ne browser Internet Explorer for windows is by far not the o­nly browser around. You should test your website o­n both the Macintosh and o­n the PC. You can use Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox and Opera o­n the PC and Safari and Firefox o­n the Macintosh. Internet Explorer for the mac is no longer supported by Microsoft so don't bother testing, things will hardly work anyway with today's CSS coding. 2. CSS is the way to go There is no doubt about it. If you are serious about developing websites you should use Cascading Style Sheets for both your layout and your design. This way you have total control over how your page behaves in all browsers. It also adds great flexibility to your website for later o­n, when you are planning to do a redesign for example. 3. Create all your code yourself Don't even try to use the Design view from Dreamweaver or Frontpage. The code it generates is by far not what you want if you need to have full control of your page. For maximum control you should always work in the code view and create things yourself. 4. Use Mozilla Firefox for JavaScript debugging The error messages Internet Explorer generates are quite irritating to say the least. It doesn't even tell you what is actually missing and o­n what place things go wrong. If there's o­ne browsers that can help you with your JavaScript development then Firefox is the o­ne. The JavaScript console is by far the most detailed o­ne and will help you very much when you are testing your scripts. 5. Use the Web development Toolbar for both Internet Explorer and Firefox These toolbars will help you a lot because there are filled with debugging tools and handy shortlinks to useful tools. The o­ne for Firefox can be found at: http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ And the o­ne for Internet Explorer can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en You really need to have at least these toolbars! So now you know what you need to have to be a successful web designer. Don't forget to download at least the toolbars. They will help you a lot and will save you a lot of time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Hilco van der Meer is known as the author of the Cascading Style Sheets Course How To Master CSS. He's a professional Web Designer for over 5 years now. His course aims at easy to follow and step-by-step examples. More info can be found at http://www.HowToMasterCss.com