chiiyo

Lovely tutorial, will definitely look into making my site XHTML... I'm already following a lot of the rules so it shouldn't be that big a problem.Question 1: The thing about name and id, I look at your example and I only see it being used in the input and form tags. How about anchor tags? When you specify an anchor the attribute is also "name", so does that mean I have to do < a id="anchor" > now, instead of < a name="anchor" >?Question 2: Just checking, is XHTML more compatible with all browsers than HTML?

And don't forget that any colours you use should be from the 216 web-safe colour palette, otherwise some colours would look different on different systems and browsers. I use the one in Photoshop, but there are websites like webmonkey.com that show the web-safe palette.Also, when you have a page that has white backgrounds, and coloured backgrounds (maybe the menu), make sure that the active link, unvisited link and visited link colours don't blend into either of the backgrounds. CSS gets around this easily, but always a good thing to keep in mind.

Hmm, another viewpoint to add.The other way you can do a layout is to decide where certain "blocks" of content go. Usually you would have a header/footer of some sort that advertises the name of the site, then you have a block which is the navigation bar, where all the links are chained up in a menu, and then you have the main content block, where all the information for that page goes, and then if you want, a small block at the bottom for copyright information and bottom text links.The way I usually come up with interesting layouts is to shuffle these blocks around. I may decide, for example, to put the header/footer block in the middle of the page for impact, and then structure the rest of the blocks around that focal point. Or I might put everything in one straight vertical line, one after the other. Sometimes you can fool around with the blocks themselves too. One of my old designs included a navigation block that wasn't just a list of links, but formed in a way the entire block had a cube of words.Most of the time I design without use of pictures, so it makes the basic layout structure very important. Without an interesting layout, the site would fall apart.