HTML
When designing a website three factors should be taken into consideration:
- Target Audience; this would determine the visitors needs
- Website content and the site map structure and wireframe
- Visual Hierarchy
- Grouping similar content is effective
- It’s important to have a consistent themed design
- Site Navigation should have clear, concise and selective text
- HTML builds the skeleton, the structure of a website
- HTML syntax mainly consists of tags; opening, closing..and single tags for some content elements.
Layout should contain main elements:
- Header <header>
- Footer <footer>
- Main section
- Navigation <nav>
- Figures
<figcaption> - Title
- Headings <h1> <h2>…
- Division elements <div> ; to group elements in a block
Additional Remarks:
- To write a comment in HTML
- ID attribute is used for the unique identification of an element id=” “
- Class attribute is used for the unique identification of an elements group
- Use escape characters a to include special
- characters in your pages such as <, >, and ©.