Page Content: The Long and the Short of It - Web Design tutorial

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You've decided to have a website for yourself or your business. Great! You know what you want to say, how you want it laid out, what pages you need, and all the other good stuff that goes into a great website. But what about graphics? Where do you get buttons, banners, title art, photographs, animation, bars, backgrounds and all the other things you need to make your website look visually interesting?

How to scan or find pictures to use on your web page or in Flash. Including the different file formats and how to compress pictures.

Information architecture is the practice of designing the infrastructure of a Web site. In the conclusion of this article, Alan covers accessibility and usability, the home page as site map, and compromising between too little and too much.

The web today is a much different place than it was just 5 years ago. Technology for the web has grown in leaps and bounds and is reflected in the sites we see and the way they are built...

This tutorial shows you how to build your very own favicons and how to incorporate them into your websites. For those of you who are unsure what favicons are you can see an example in the attachment above. Favicons are supported in most of todays browsers and are an attractive feature to any website making them stand out from the crowd. They are by no means a necessity but really do help to enforce your sites theme.