Navigation Menus with List Styles This is our 3rd installment for our HTML 101 series. Today we will be adding the navigation menu for our website. We will accomplish this by creating a list menu. We will also create a placeholder page to link to from the navigation menu. Let’s get started.
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Create an XML Sitemap for Your Website
What is a Sitemap? Before we jump straight into creating a sitemap let’s just briefly review what a sitemap is. Sitemaps are basically a map of your site. It defines the URL structure and helps search engines know what is contained in your site so search engines can find those pages.
Google Results Bookmarklet
Nice Link Gathering Tool Here is a great tool I found that allows you to gather links for search terms in Google that you can use to help plan out a link campaign. It is a slick tool created by Liam Delahunty of Online Sales. He calls it the Google Results Bookmarklet. Check it out.
9 Free Tools That All Web Designers Should Have
Every web designer needs a good tool palette consisting of the essential tools to assist him or her in creating a great web design. If those tools are free, then even better. Here is a list of 9 essential and free tools that every web designer should have in their tool box. 1) Firebug Firebug …
How to Sign Up and Verify a Yahoo Site Explorer Account
What is Yahoo Site Explorer? Yahoo Site Explorer allows you to submit feeds or sitemaps for your site, check your pages that are indexed, check internal and external links plus more. You will need a Yahoo account before accessing the Yahoo Site Explorer. If you do not have one, create a Yahoo account.
How to Attach an External CSS Style Sheet
Why You Should Link to an External CSS Stylesheet If you incorporate all of your CSS into your HTML, your web design it becomes bloated which causes the files size to increase, which causes your page to load slower, which causes people to leave your website in a mad fit to opt for a faster …
HTML 101 for Beginners – Part 2 – Links and Images
HTML 101 – Links and Images Welcome back to lesson 2 in the continuing series of HTML 101 for Beginners. This lesson will be on inserting links and images into your web page. In HTML 101 for Beginners Part 1, we talked about the basic HTML tags so now it is time to move on …
HTML 101 for Beginners – Part 1 – HTML Tags
HTML 101: HTML Tags Hello everyone! So far I have only talked about search engine optimization so I thought I would take a moment and talk about web design. I could write the world’s longest blog post ever and cover all of the elements of Beginner’s HTML but who would read through all of that? …
How to Verify Your Website with Google Webmaster Account
What is a Google Webmaster Tools Account? It is a site dedicated to providing webmasters or individuals who run their own website the tools for getting them indexed. It also has troubleshooting tools and provides great information for creating a Google friendly site. With the mass majority of searches coming from Google search engines, you …
How to Submit URL to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask
Submit Your Site for Free The first step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in Google is to submit your URL to search engines. An example of an URL is www.yoursite.com. Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite the process. Once you submit your URL, …
