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The ABC's of Layout
Interactivity and Images
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Every website is made of different
kinds of computer code and how your webside looks in your
browser and what interactivity is built into your website
determines what kind of code you will generally have to
use. There can be more than one way to do things and some
ways are better that others depending on what look and results
you are trying to acheive.
This is a 'graphic' image.
The code used to display it is as
basic as it gets in web design. It's called HTML and the
only thing this image can do right now is be seen.
Always call your pictures and graphics
'images' because that is what the code calls them and so
will anybody else that you will ever be dealing with regarding
your website.
There are different kinds of image
formats and each have different abilities to display your
content in your website depending on whether your image
is a graphic, like a logo, or a photograph of GrandPa. There's
a few things to know and this is where 'file size' and 'Speed
Loading Pages' comes into play bigtime.
This image has code applied to it. Mouse over
it and it will change to another image. Click on it and
a really cool popup page will appear. Now were getting
into website 'interacitvity'. Anytime a visitor
causes something to happen on the website that looks animated,
moving or makes a change it's called interactivity.
Interactivity is a good thing. You can determine
alot about your visitors from the interactivity they've
selected. This helps you know visitor preferences and
what's working on your website, and by providing several
methods of interacting to your website designs you've
just raised your score in the game of search engine optimization.
There are many, many way to accomplish interactivity
and an image rollover is just one. Websites with no interactivity
are pretty boring. Knowing how to optimize your interactivity
is a good way to increase your score in the search engines
and you will be ranked higher in search results everywhere.
'The ABCs of Layout' tutorials on Tables and
Frames are about webpage 'layout', the term used when
describing how the page is structered to display your
content. This is simple. The main elements are called
either 'Tables' or 'Frames' and both look alike and which
to use is a hotly debated subject in web design.
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