Your Personal Web Site

An Introduction to Personal Web Design
Bob Richmond

Your audience: What I think a personal Web site is. Browsers (Explorer, Netscape etc). Text only browsers. Look at your pages with every browser you can. Disability issues: presbyopia, low vision, color vision deficits, attention deficit problems. Security issues. Control issues.

Editing for the Web: Text editors (BBEdit) and page editors (Dreamweaver)

Text on the Web: Text should display before graphics. Make your type big enough! Fonts. Character entities - special symbols and foreign languages.
Links on the Web: Two link types, in and out of site. "Look and feel" of a site. Conventions. Why not to use FRAMES.
Graphics on the Web: There are ordinarily two graphic formats:
- JPG (JPEG) for photographs
- GIF for everything else
Coding a graphic: <IMG SRC =kazooscom.jpg width="135" height="78" hspace="0" vspace="0" alt="[kazoo from kazoo.com]">

Adobe's PhotoShop Elements 2.0 is a little hard to learn, but will convert graphic types and will crop graphics. Don't let it make your graphics too big. Digital photography. Scanners.

Color on the Web: "Web safe colors". Hex. Text and background colors.
Sound on the Web

Uploading to the Web: AOL's FTP (formerly "Myplace").
Dartmouth's Fetch File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Publicizing your pages: Tell your friends. Ask for links from related sites. Making yourself accessible. Dating pages.
Enter URL's into Google and Alta Vista's Add URL sites. META tagging.

Some indispensable reference books:

Laura Lemay, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days,2001. Sams.net

Jennifer Niederst, Web Design in a Nutshell,2nd ed. 2001. O'Reilly.

Jakob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability, New Riders 2000.

Joseph W. Lowery and Kevin Lynch, Dreamweaver® 4 Bible, Wiley, May 2001.

Bob Richmond's Web site:

site map| index page| Germany links| poetry| man piaba song| shape notes| Kokopelli| 242nd General Hospital| Equestrian Pie| Shaw Alphabet|

Dionicio Rodriguez| my aortic valve replacement| Sir John Harington| my teddy bear|

Some personal Web sites

Ed Friedlander (pathologist)

Ed Uthman (pathologist)

Akio Hasegawa (pathologist in Japan)

Phil Butler

Richard Harter's World

E-mail Bob Richmond

Return to links page (site map).

Presented to the Knoxville TN Macintosh users group ETMUG (formerly MacClique)
posted to the Web April 27th, 1999
updated January 21st, 2003

Your Personal Web Site

An Introduction to Personal Web DesignBob Richmond

An Introduction to Personal Web Design
Bob Richmond