Monday, 25 April 2011

UNDERSTANDING WEB DESIGN

 Website design is the skill to beat in this modern age of information technology. Most businesses now run online and have a wide range of viewership around the world. This is the power of the internet. You cannot become a player in the fast-growing world of internet business if you do not know how to build a simple website . This piece of article is to guide through the beginning stages of  the web-design  program and to ensure mentoring if you intend to build yourself.
There are a number of useful softwares that can be used to build web pages. A website is a collection of web pages saved on a computer server and displayed on web browsers like Navigator , Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox etc. Hence , a web page is  designed independently and linked with other web pages to form a website.
To effectively design a web page , you need to know one of the following ;
1-HTML  Hyper Text Markup Language
2-Dreamweaver
3-Microsoft FrontPage
4-Macromedia Flash and Fireworks
For the purpose of  this tutorial , we shall be discussing the use of Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Macromedia Dreamweaver is a simple-to-use  computer software which adds graphics , animations ,texts ,and other media objects to your web pages. You can use Dreamweaver to create a user-friendly websites that have good compatibility with various web browsers. If you must use Dreamweaver , you should go to a near by software vendor and ask for a software. Once you have it installed and   ready to use, then you can practice some of the exercises we shall be discussing. The software usually comes with other Macromedia packages such as Flash and Fireworks.

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