Website Construction
Website Construction Guidelines:
- Website Construction - Important
- Website Construction - Construct for Flexibility
- Website Construction - Construct to Standards
- Website Construction - Construct for Accessibility
- Website Construction - Construct for Reliability
- Website Construction - Reference
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Website Construction - Importance
After the website has been planned and designed, it is ready to be constructed.
Construction is the process of taking the design and creating the actual website. It is assumed that there are many different ways to realize the design. Creating a good technical website is desirable because it is easier to maintain and it will load faster.
It is quite possible to take one design and create very similar if not identical websites but produce quite different code.
Different products could be used, like Dreamweaver or FrontPage.
The HTML could be clean and well written, or the website could have wasted and bloated code.
If ecommerce is used on the site, there are a number of products and techniques that might look and work similar, but might perform quite differently.
Building well crafted websites will prepare for delivering websites to PDAs, Mobile Phones, and other devices.
Website Construction - Construct for Flexibility
Use CSS to separate out the visual component from the text.
- See The Beauty of CSS Design for A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
If using FrontPage, use techniques to made the code easier to maintain.
- Dynamic Web Templates
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Website Construction - Construct to Standards
Code the website to standards. It will give the best assurance the website will run well on any browser.
Use Standard HTML
- W3C HTML Validation Service - The W3C Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
- Web Design Group HTML Validator - Validate the entire site at once.
Use Standard CSS
- W3C CSS Validation Service - a free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations.
Website Construction - Construct for Accessibility
There are many techniques that are available that will make the site more accessible to those with physical challenges.
Provide Accessibility
- Cynthia Says™ Portal - is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 Standards and the W3C WCAG 1.0 Guidelines guidelines. The main purpose of this portal is to educate web site developers in the development Web Based content that is accessible to all. This online test only validates one page at a time.
Website Construction - Construct for Reliability
Provide Error Processing
- Code for errors
- Add default file (usually index.htm) to each subfolder
- Use the .htaccess file for error processing
Manage the Source Code
All the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and other code for your website is the source code. Usually the source code has taken many hours to create. It should be treated as an asset, and protected, backed up, and stored safely.
Website Construction - Tools
Profession Websites can be constructed using any of various tools.
Website Construction - Reference
Articles
Meta Tags
- DMOZ list of Meta Tag Tutorials
- Back to Basics: META Tags by Scott Clark
- A Dictionary of HTML META Tags
- Meta Tag Analyzer
HTML
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- W3C CSS Validation
- These test pages test every aspect of CSS 2.
- CSS bug table
- CSS Support History
- CSS Properties Chart - list of CSS properties as implemented by different browsers.
Browsers
General
- Website Construction Links - Links to Website Construction Information
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