Stylish design

1 Comment Written by Robert on February 19, 2008 – 2:02 pm

You don’t see many lists on the Internet anymore, because they don’t always fit in with a Web site. However, HTML has a feature for lists, which is awesome because it makes them extremely easy to use. There are two main types of lists: bulleted lists and numbered lists.You’ve probably seen these two types of lists. See the difference? In general, you use a numbered list when you want the viewer to follow instructions, or when you want to explain something that steps in a specific order. In contrast, a bulleted list is used to summarize information and give some explanations. You’ll see the difference between a bulleted list and a numbered list. Pretty basic, eh? These lists are great for summarizing information on a Web page, because they direct the reader’s focus towards the important points. Use them sparingly, though, because overuse makes them look bad. By the way, there’s one more type of list called a definition list. Definition lists are best used for explaining definitions. Use them when you’re defining words within your document. Okay, that’s all for lists. Next up, I ’ll write about forms.

The form is one of the most common elements within a Web page. Forms allow visitors to send information to the site, and they also allow e-mails to be sent from within the form.You’ve probably seen forms before, because they’re very common on Web sites. Forms are made up of a number of sub-elements: buttons, radio buttons, text boxes, image buttons, password boxes, check boxes, and file forms. These elements can create a form that does anything the Web designer wants. A form usually uses all of these elements in conjunction. Using only one of these form elements does very little. In fact, at least two of them are needed for the form to do much of anything at all. The major job of forms is to allow the visitor to send information back to the Web server.This means that you can ask your visitors to send comments to you through the site.

A form has to be attached to a certain kind of document, sometimes called a CGI script, before it can send out information, and this one isn’t attached to anything. Comment forms aren’t the only types of forms used on Web pages. Often, check boxes or drop-down lists are used. You’ll see radio buttons, check boxes, and drop-down lists. These elements work together to create a complete form. The visitor can use these elements to send information to the owner of the Web site. Using these forms, you can receive comments and ideas from your audience. Other elements can be used to make forms work in different ways. For example, visitors can send files from their computer to your site through a form. Forms can allow people to type in passwords.

There’s one more major element that I ’ll go over in this post: tables. Tables enable you to place data on a Web site, setting it off into columns and rows. You’ve seen tables before.They’re extremely important in Web design. In addition to simply displaying data in an organized format, invisible tables are used all over Web sites.These hidden tables allow you to organize a page so that data can be moved around on it. Well, tables make the organization scheme work in the document. Look at the difference! The first page is organized so that the navigation bar is to the left while the main section is in the center. But on the second page, without tables, there’s no organization. Everything is just dumped onto the page. Invisible tables play a huge part in developing a good-looking Web site. Organization makes a big difference in the aesthetics of a page, and tables make the page look good and function well. For this reason, invisible tables are used on almost all Web sites.

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