Web Design: How do I get the browser to automatically redirect to another page if a certain condition is true?

Posted by admin on November 13th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 2 Comments »

I know I need to use an if-statement but what do I need to use so that the browser redirects the user to another web page? Please help.

It depends on what you are trying to do.

If you are trying to make a site redirect, use Javascript to detect the user agent and redirect to your other site.

If you are trying to redirect a mobile device, you have to use PHP, because many mobile devices do not have Javascript enabled on them.

If you are just trying to redirect IE or a version of IE, use this:
<!–[if ie]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.example.com/"><![endif]–>

I cannot provide the specific code we use where I work but if you google for ‘detect user agent’ and ‘redirect’ you should be able to come up with something.

I am a Myspace Artist and want to design a web page on myspace, where can I get help designing one?

Posted by admin on November 10th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 3 Comments »

All the TOP ARTISTS have professional web pages, where can I find a place where I can design my own html code and put it in the page? I am using a pimpmy space code and there logo is there and it looks very unprofessional.

Learn it yourself at w3schools.com or else you may contact a web designer at websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ to code it for you.

What is the function of web-page design software?

Posted by admin on November 7th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 3 Comments »


It helps you design web pages by showing you what your code will show up as before you upload – WYSIWYG. Some, like Dreamweaver, will give you templates to choose from that you can then edit.

Some web design software is:

Microsoft Frontpage – not free
Adobe Dreamweaver – much too expensive
Nvu – free but for more advanced users
Kompozer – forked from Nvu, is free, and looks and feels a lot like Dreamweaver

I need help with my review questions for my web page design class?

Posted by admin on November 4th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 3 Comments »

I’m majoring in web page design and I have some review questions that I can’t seem to find the answer to. Hopefully someone can help me.

1. The code for HTML title "Elements of Design" would look like
A.<Title>Elements of Design</Title>
B. <Center>Elements of Design</Center>
C. [Title]Elements of Design[/Title]
D. [Center]Elements of Design[/Center]

2. Designers sometimes must adjust the spacing between letters so that the result looks right to them. Is called
A. optical spacing
B. closing a line
C. justifying
D. leading it out

3. If a line of type measures 5 inches (12.5 centimeters) in length, how many picas long is it?
A. 15
B. 25
C. 30
D. 60

4. HTML documents are created by adding what to text?
A. Tables
B. Graphics
C. Links
D. Tags

5. Computer files designed to simplify the layout process and stored electronically as part of a desktop publishing software program are called
A. style manuals
B. style sheets
C. reference files
D. specification sheet
First of all I haven’t been in class cause I’ve been sick and the teacher he’s pretty hard and he won’t help you if you haven’t been in class even if your sick. Most of this stuff was discussed in class and I haven’t been there since last friday. I’m recovering from an illness and I’m contagious and I have a fever so the doctor is making me stay home.

1: A. However, the question as presented does not conform to best practices.

The HTML 4.01 specification recommends that all tags be upper-case, and the XHTML 1.0 specification recommends that all tags be lower-case, so it would properly be <title>Elements Of Design</title> (XHTML) or <TITLE>Elements Of Design</TITLE> (HTML)

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-TITLE
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xhtml-basic-20070713/#s_conformance

2. The spacing between lines is called leading; the spacing between characters is called kerning. So there’s no right answer presented here.

As written, the closest correct answer is C, since the other terms are made up or completely inappropriate.

However, "justifying" suggests monospacing the distance between all characters on a line so that the line takes up the entire line length (area between margins). Kerning is the practice of repositioning characters so that the space between them appears appropriate.

Your professor may have confused leading and kerning. Point that out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/leading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kerning

3. There are 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch. So, if something is 5 inches long, it is 30 picas (or 360 points).

As a totally unrelated aside, the basic measures of 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch is why computer monitor resolution is 72 dpi.

A point is a pixel is a dot. Therefore, whenever someone talks about points, pixels or dots (dpi), they are talking about the same-sized element.

Since there are 12 points to a pica and 6 picas to an inch, that means that 72 points is an inch. You’ll notice that it’s not often a 72-point character is actually an inch tall or inch wide, due to the way fonts are actually designed; but the point is, the character is expected to take up one inch when it is at 72 points.

Since a point, dot and a pixel are the same thing, 72 dpi is also a 1 inch = 1 inch measurement.

So, at a screen resolution of 72 dpi, anything that is supposed to be an inch tall appears to be an inch tall on your screen.

And that’s why, when you work with a 300 dpi image on screen, it wants to show so much bigger than its actual dimensions. In fact, an image at 300 dpi appears about 4.2 times bigger on screen than it actually is.

So, if you scan in a 4in x 5in snapshot at 300 dpi, it will actually appear on screen to be about 17in x 21in. It’s really only 4×5, but because the screen renders 72 dots per inch, it displays an image with a higher resolution much larger than it actually is; because it can’t cram 4.2 pounds of dots into a 1-pound bag, basically.

The same works in reverse. If you scan a 4×5 photo in at 35 dpi, it will show on the screen at about 2×2.5 inches.

Why? Because at 35 dpi, the image has half the resolution of the screen; therefore, it appears half-sized. It is still, in reality, 4×5, and will print out at that size, but the resolution is so low, your screen shrinks it; it tries to make a half-pound of apples fill a one-pound bag, but the same way it can’t stretch the bag, it can’t shrink it, so only the bottom half of the bag is filled.

Toss that out to your professor for extra credit if you want.

4. D. HTML stands for "hyper text markup language." The "markup" in that means "tags."

5. B. A style sheet is a series of instructions on how to render named elements. It applies to many programs, not just Web pages; for example, Word, InDesign and XPress all use style sheets.

Jobs for Web Page Design Major?

Posted by admin on November 1st, 2009 and filed under web page design | 5 Comments »

What type of jobs would one be qualified for or look for with a degree in Web Page Design. One of my children is interested in this field.

Hello,

Did he got already experience in designing? If so why cant he work as freelance programmer. Think about it. He can work independently if he has enough skill in that field.
To get in contact with the webmasters he can join couple of sites which I propose where he can find plenty of web designing/graphic designing/flash player projects out sourced from various parts of the world.
Registration to these sites are FREE and you can quote your price and can discuss the details over message board. Payments are made thru safe escrow on these sites.

Access these site links from my blog:http://geturjobneeds.blogspot.com/

Good Luck
Jennie

Web page design jobs?

Posted by admin on October 30th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 1 Comment »

I am going to a tech college for webpage design and I know its kind of late to be asking this but how good of a field is web page design. Can you make a lot of money if you have your own web design business? Is there a large demand for jobs in web page design? If there isn’t that, than can I get other computer jobs with my degree?

You would do better in consulting or contracting work then working for a company as a full-time employee. The work will probably be more interesting.

Make sure you have a good portfolio so that you can show off your talent.

Web page design, where to start?

Posted by admin on October 28th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 4 Comments »

I have no idea how to go about making my own website, but want to learn how. The site I have in mind would be for selling items. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

There are several ways to start creating your own website.

1) You should first have a registered domain for your website. If you dont have one, you can register it from your web hosting company or domain registrar.

2) Purchase a web space that will host your website contents from a web hosting company. There are several web hosting companies that offer domain registration and web hosting solutions as per your preferred location and budget.

3) See if your web hosting company offers any easy to use tools that will help you creating your website with the help of pre-defined templates. There are several websites such as http://www.webhost.uk.net, http://www.infrenion.com, http://www.rshosting.com etc that offer a tool called "Site Builder" that will help you design your web pages with the help of their predefined templates and wizards.

4) If you wish to create your custom design, you can create .html or .php or .asp pages with the help of good web site editing application such as Adobe Dreamweaver. Once you are done with creating your web pages, you will need to upload them to your web space.
Note: Using web site editing application such as Adobe Dreamweaver will need you to have basic knowledge of html coding.

Since you mentioned you wish to create a website that will be selling items, you can use ready to use CMS and Shopping cart systems that are available in market such as Joomla – http://www.joomla.org, Oscommerce – http://www.oscommerce.com
There are several other paid applications such as Magento – http://www.magentocommerce.com that will help you building and configuring your store.

Above mentioned applications are supported by almost all web hosting companies that support php and mysql database platform. Using above applications will help you to get your store ready in just a few minutes without you needing to do any kind of extensive coding.

Hope the above information helps you..

Where can I find find Web Page design templates?

Posted by admin on October 26th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 4 Comments »

I have this page Im building for a class project for a clock selling bussiness. I need it to have a shopping cart and stuff like that any help?
This page will never be put on the internet so I don’t have to worry about the copyright. I just need a template basically for the shopping cart part cause I can build all the other things I just don’t know how to create that

http://www.web-site-templates.biz

Where can I find find Web Page design templates?

Posted by admin on October 26th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 4 Comments »

I have this page Im building for a class project for a clock selling bussiness. I need it to have a shopping cart and stuff like that any help?
This page will never be put on the internet so I don’t have to worry about the copyright. I just need a template basically for the shopping cart part cause I can build all the other things I just don’t know how to create that

http://www.web-site-templates.biz

Is there any place online that I can go to learn HTML/Web Page Design better?

Posted by admin on October 24th, 2009 and filed under web page design | 6 Comments »

I already know basic html, but I wanted to learn more. Any site that is free or cheap and easy to learn from that you know of would be great! Thanks!

You say you already know basic HTML, so I don’t think that http://www.w3schools.com/html/ is what you need.

There is a website called Advanced HTML for Beginners http://www.ahfb2000.com/ , but again in my opinion it’s not what you need.

Now that you know basic HTML, the best way to learn HTML/Web Design is:
* Learn CSS – http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
* Look at other people’s designs at Open Source Web Design (OSWD) – http://www.oswd.org/designs/browse/

That’s how I learnt advanced HTML and CSS. The best way to learn is to learn from the masters. Just select a design you find appealing, and analyze its code (you can download the code at OSWD; for other websites there’s view->source).

Also there are some good tutorials at:
* http://htmldog.com/
* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LearningHtmlAndCss