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Let's Make a Layout Alright, so now it's on to the finishing touches. The Finishing touches are quite simpley where we tweak the layout and add in our content.A lot of the time the finishing pieces involve going back and double checking to make sure things are as you want them, testing to make sure the scroll bar looks as you want it to look, and that everything is legible. As far as elegance, it might LOOK nice to have fonts that almost blend with the background but in quality... it's hard to see and doesn't really appeal to a reader. What you want to do now is add in content and links. Your main content would go in the main.html file. Whenever you create a new page like perhaps a credits page you would use the main.html page as your template.
Normally to make a link I'd just send you over to HTML 101, but in this case, because making a link involves getting it to appear into the content section we'll go over it.
To do this we use the target property.
These just go inside the <a href="/"> tag. So a link that we wanted to open in the main frame (that credits page we talked about) would look like this <a href="credits.html" target="main">
Once you have your content and links, you'll be ready to go live. Now if you haven't been using the internet to view this anyway...
Now every site is different, the best is FTP, which will only come from owning a domain or being subdomained by someone. If you don't have an FTP program you CAN use your IE browser though I would suggest that you download a free program such as SmartFTP.
Sometimes when you upload you'll notice little quirks, be sure to work them out, perhaps a div isn't inline as it should be, change it and reupload and check.
Check it out: What My final product looks like!!!
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Let's Make a Layout(iFrames!) Part One :: Getting Started
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