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Listing Material You Already Have - After planning, it is now to start collecting material for your web site. Before you go around collecting material for your website, make a note of what you already have.
If you already have most of the material, you can save a lot of time by not hunting for any.
Your Existing material could be anything :
Organising Site Folder
Now that you have your basic plan and a list of all the material you need, you have to do one more thing before getting down to the real exciting stuffs.You Have to organise
Your Web Site Folder.The Purpose of doing this is... well... to get organised.
The last thing you need right now is to open up every folder on your computer to look for one tiny Image file.Although it is true that for a small web site one single folder is enough, but your will find it much faster to work when you do a bit of categorizing.
The first step to organising is to create a new folder on your Desktop dedicated to your Web Site. You can always move this folder elsewhere later on. But while you're working on your web site in the next few days, you will save a lot of time if your web site folder was one click away.The Second step is to create an additional folder within your Site Folder for your Images.
Collecting Material
The First Thing you need to do, before you actually start to create your web site, is to collect some material.
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What sort of Material?
Keeping in mind the Left border Layout, we will be needing a background image. You will also need a logo for your page and some buttons for your navigation bar.Let's Start with a Background Image.
When you choose a background Image, your browser will repeat it over and over until it covers the whole of your webpage.In this tutorial, we will be using a left border background image that looks like this :
This is a reduced size Image. Note that the white area is also part of the Image. The White area extends way to the right. This is to cater for higher resolution displays. A display monitor with a lower resolutions will simpley see less of the white area.When you include this graphic as a background image, a browser will repeat it until it creates a left border effect.If you want to create your own Border Image then you can do so using numerous Image Processing softwares available. If you do not want to create your own left border, you can get ready-made royalty free background Images from
Just do a search for "Left Border Background" in the WebArt Category.If you already have a logo... use it! If you don't, you'll have to create one. Nothing major, just a simple logo to start out with. To create your simple logo, You Can use the free online creator atMake sure that you save your logo into the images folder. This will make finding your logo a lot easier later on.Button ImagesThe Next step is to collect button images for your navigation bar. Remember, for easy access to the images while creating your web site, make sure you save them in the Images folder.Before you start, take a look at the site map you drew earlier. From the number of pages in your map, list down all the buttons you will need.Here are some of the common buttons :
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You can create your buttons using Flamingtext.com as well. That way, your buttons will match your logo. Just choose a smaller font size. You may even want to invert the colors. Go on experiment till you get the look you want. But don't spend too much time on it..
If you are happy to stick with a plain navigation bar, you can use simple text links as your navigation links. This will again reduce the size of your webpage which means it will load faster. However, Your webpage might not look as visually appealing.
Alternatively, you can search for button images in the Webarts section of Clipart.com
One of your aim is to create fast loading pages. To do that your images must be small in file size as possible.
You can reduce the file size of your images using an online service offered by NetMechanics called GifBotThe Trick here is to choose an optimized image that is both small in file size and still good looking.
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