This summer I took a course through my university to learn a bit more aboutweb design. I previously had little to no experience with web design. I wasalso about to embark on a project requiring making a website about hipconditions for my medical school capstone project. I was initially not surethese two endeavors (the class … Continue reading A Short Reflection on Web Technologies →

This post represents a culmination of sorts from all I've learned about HTML and CSS in these past few weeks. The foundation of this post is a template that was sourced from W3schools.com. I manipulated this pre-made template slightly in order to better match my website. The template is simple, as is the content of … Continue reading Creating a Portfolio Page →

The most common way to make different pages on a site available to the user is to provide a navigation menu through which one can click through a site. Each page will have its own unique URL, of which there are two versions. One version is relative and can be used when accessing sites located … Continue reading Linking Pages on the Same Site →

Cascading style sheets (CSS) allows you to add style elements to an HTML script. CSS styling can be incorporated in one of three ways. Inline incorporation of CSS style elements lets you add styling elements to a single line while internal incorporation is included at the top of the HTML document, enclosed in the head … Continue reading Inline and Internal CSS →

Browser compatibility refers to how adaptable your website is to different browsers and devices. This is an important component of web design as compatibility ensures that all of your website's features are intact for users across devices. These features include clickable buttons and formatting that helps to make your website aesthetically pleasing and user friendly. … Continue reading Browser Compatibility →

In this post, I will demonstrate how to use an expanded set of HTML tags that are useful for formatting and design purposes. In the previous post about HTML, I demonstrated the usage of headings, links, lists, and some basic text formatting. This post will highlight even more ways to modify the appearance of text, … Continue reading HTML Round 3: More Tags! →

There are many additions you can make to a website in order to enhance the user experience. In this post, I present just a few things I have learned how to integrate in order to enhance functionality and create a more interactive website. The first thing I have added, which can be seen below, is … Continue reading Adding Media and Functionality to Your Site →

Making a user-friendly interface is the first step in encouraging people to visit your site. However, no matter how aesthetically pleasing and easy to use your site is, it will not get the attention it deserves unless people know about it. There are numerous ways to increase the traffic on your site, many of them … Continue reading How to Drive Traffic to Your Site →

In this exercise, I expanded on my previous knowledge of HTML in order to incorporate additional formatting attributes into the basic HTML script I used in the First Venture into Using HTML post. I have incorporated color attributes, examples of all of the headings that are available in HTML, and a few tags to change … Continue reading HTML Round 2: Expanding My Knowledge of Tags and Attributes →

Images make up much of the weight of a website. The quality of the image, as well as many other unseen factors, add to this weight. Often times, this excess data can be removed in order to decrease image load times and generally make the website more search engine-friendly. This process of improving an image … Continue reading Trimming the Fat Through Image Optimization →