Quick Start Guide to Website Design

Web Design Mastery Volume 1 (55 pages)

Planning Your Website

Developing a strategic plan is an essential part of designing a successful website. Planning Your Web Site will provide you with the information you need to develop your plan including:

• An Introduction to Website Design
• Your Web Sites Load Time and How it Can Affect Your Traffic
• Optimizing Your Web Pages to Obtain High Rankings in the Search Engines
• How to Design a Profit Generating Mini-Site
• How to Network Your Web Sites and Share Your Traffic
• Your Website’s Appearance and How it Will Affect Your Sales
• Web Design Tips to Give Your Site a Professional Appearance
• Writing Effective Website Sales Copy
• Secret Headline Formulas Used by Professional Copywriters
• How to Build Your Credibility and Increase Your Sales Considerably
• The Importance of Providing Quality Content and Where to Get it, free
• How to Get Prepared to Design Your Website
• Designing Your First Website

Web Design Mastery Volume 2 (171 pages)

HTML Tutorial

A step by step guide to writing your own HTML code including:

• An Introduction to HTML
• How to set Color Attributes Within Your Web Page
• Working with Text
• How to Format Characters Within Your Web Page
• How to Create URLs (Links) and Anchors
• How to Display Your Text as a List
• How to Display Images Within Your Web Page
• Working with HTML Tables
• Using an HTML Table to Format Your Page
• HTML Table Examples
• How to use HTML Forms Within Your Web Page
• Advanced HTML Form Tips and Tricks
• How to Set Your Website up in HTML Frames
• Adding Audio to Your Web Page
• Adding Video to Your Web Page
• Placing META Tags Within Your Web Pages

Web Design Mastery Volume 3 (15 pages)

Creating Your First Web Page

A step by step beginners tutorial to assist you in designing your very first web page.

Web Design Mastery Volume 4 (23 pages)

Working with Graphics

A step by step graphics tutorial that will teach you some basic graphic design techniques, including:

• Graphics Editors and Tools
• Working with Images
• Resizing Images
• Image Formats
• Rotating Images
• Working with Text
• Creating a Drop Shadow Effect
• Cropping Your Image
• Saving Images
• Cutting Image
• Working with Layers

Web Design Mastery Volume 5 (86 pages)

Advanced Web Design

Step by step tutorials that will take you through the entire design process of a sample web page template, including:

• Web Page Template Design – A six part, step by step guide to designing a professional web page template.
• Image Dicing / Manipulating – A step by step tutorial that will assist you in dicing and manipulating images.
• Image Rollovers – A step by step tutorial to assist you in creating image rollover effects.
• Advanced Tables / Codes – Several example tables and codes that can be used to spice up your web page.
• Email Forms/Opt-In Lists – A tutorial to assist you in developing an opt-in list, publication and form.

Web Design Mastery Volume 6 (8 pages)

Web Hosting

A guide to selecting a quality web host, including:

• What is a Web Host
• Free Verses Professional Web Hosts
• Selecting a Quality Domain Name
• Selecting a Quality Web Host

Web Design Mastery Volume 7 (15 pages)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

A tutorial to assist you in using FTP to upload and download files to and from your web server.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) (47 pages)

A step by step tutorial to assist you in learning CSS, including:

• An Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
• Getting Started – Creating a Basic HTML Webpage
• Using Cascading Style Sheets to Specify Webpage Formatting
• Formatting Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Formatting Hyperlinks
• Creating Tables within a Webpage
• Cascading Style Sheets Classes and ID’s
• Cascading Style Sheet Codes Chart – Property Index

JavaScript (26 pages)

A step by step tutorial to assist you in learning JavaScript, including:

• An Introduction to JavaScript
• The Basics
• JavaScript Objects
• JavaScript Properties
• JavaScript Methods and Functions
• JavaScript Events and Event Handlers
• Writing Your First JavaScript
• Writing to an HTML Document
• Specifying the Script is JavaScript
• Hiding the Script from Older Browsers
• JavaScript Object and Method
• JavaScript String
• Dealing With Non-JavaScript Enabled Browsers
• Using the <noscript> Tag
• JavaScript Events
• Changing the Browser Status Bar
• JavaScript Variables and Arrays
• JavaScript Functions and Methods
• Dealing with JavaScript Errors

Design Tips and Tricks (128 pages)

Tips include HTML, DHTML, JavaScript code snippets and CSS codes. This is my own personal collection of JavaScript, DHTML, HTML and CSS code snippets. These are the exact codes and techniques I use to create special effects within my pages here at Web-Source.net. Simply open the ebook to locate the code you need and copy and paste it into your page.

Here is an example of some of the tips you will receive:

Creating A Status Bar Link Description

Auto Fill an Email Subject

Creating A Status Bar Link Description

Auto Fill an Email Subject

Creating a Mouseover Text Description

Setting Web Page Margins

Creating an “Escape From Frame” Link

Linking within the same Web Page

Customizing Link Styles

Displaying Empty Table Cells

Replacing Bullets With Graphic Bullets

Creating a Stationary Background

Mouseover Link Effects

Displaying Tables with Image Backgrounds

Using an Image to Create a Line

Open a Web Page in a New Window

Adding Color to Table Cells

Adding Color to Table Borders

Setting Table Widths

Customizing Your Lists

Preventing Search Engine Indexing

Preventing Browser Cache

Using META Tags to Redirect

META Tags for Search Engine Indexing

Creating A Customized Marquee

Changing the Style of Your Bullets

Reference Charts (64 pages) 

Reference charts to assist you in designing your website:

• HTML Chart – Commonly used HTML codes, including names, tags and examples.
• Deprecated Elements – Outdated HTML elements that have been replaced by a better alternative code.
• Deprecated Attributes – Outdated HTML attributes that have been replaced by a better alternative code.
• CSS Chart – CSS properties including background, border, classification, font, margin, padding and text.
• Color Chart – 216 Safe color chart containing each color, the hexadecimal values and the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) Values.
• Symbols Chart – Special characters and symbols.
• JavaScript Chart – JavaScript references, including Object, Event, Functions, Math Object, Array Object, String Object and Date Object.
• Troubleshooting Chart – Common web development problems including graphics, text, tables, HTML, forms, JavaScript and CGI Scripts.

Marketing and Promotion (50 pages)

A guide to marketing and promoting your website, including:

• Accepting Payment Through Your Website
• Developing Your Website’s Promotional Strategy
• Paying for Traffic
• Advertising on Your Website
• Purchasing Advertising
• Email Guidelines
• Working with ZIP Files
• Working with Text Editors
• Working with Autoresponders
• Publishing an Ezine
• Marketing with Ebooks
• Creating an Icon

Resources (7 pages)

A reference guide containing links to a variety of Internet resources to assist you including:

• Web Page Templates
• Website Analysis
• HTML Editors
• Browser Compatibility
• FTP Programs
• CGI Scripts
• JavaScripts
• Graphics
• Graphic Editors
• Fonts
• Zip/Unzip Utilities
• Freeware
• Reference
• Resources

Glossary of Terms (11 pages)

A reference guide containing commonly used Internet terms.