Use lowercase letters in tags to save time because HTML is not case sensitive.
D@rkAngel
Make a system of indenting and line breaks to make your HTML more organized and easier to edit.
D@rkAngel
If you're looking for new HTML tags, techniques, and effects, surf the web and view the HTML sources of various websites.
Kal'Dun
Find an HTML editor, like Arachnophilia, that you like. Notepad works, but its features are limited.
Trekker
Check that your tags work with as many versions of HTML as possible. You can include tags that don't work with every version, as long as it doesn't mess up your layout.
Trekker
Start small, and as you become more familiar with HTML, make your websites bigger and better.
Trekker
Layout
Make sure you page colors go together well. You don't want similar colors for text and the background. You also don't want a complicated background image, for it will distract from the content of the website.
D@rkAngel
On your main page, make sure the links to your other sections are clearly visible.
D@rkAngel
Make sure your images don't take too long to load, and don't use too many animated GIFs. They the webpage slower and too many GIFs are distracting.
D@rkAngel
Take advantage of tables because they are essential to a good layout.
D@rkAngel
Make sure you use the same layout on every page. Make a template HTML file and copy and paste the layout from it on every new page.
D@rkAngel
Have a picture in your mind of what you want you layout to look like before you start making the webpage.
Kal'Dun
Try to make pages as interactive as possible with things like Javascript and style sheets.
Kal'Dun
Use named colors like "red" and "green" instead of hexidecimal colors like "#45A2F0" because hexidecimal doesn't always work on 256-color systems. You can use hexidecimal colors, but don't use them unless necessary.
D@rkAngel
Update often and stay user-friendly.
Kal'Dun
Keep your site simple so it doesn't take too long to load.
Trekker
Ensure your website works with both Internet Explorer and Netscape. If it only works well with one, you've lost half of your customers.
D@rkAngel
Make sure that your font (including size and style) works out on all systems. Example: I made size=5, and on my computer it was perfect, but on another computer the font size was large and horrible, and everything was off.