Day 23: A Post A Day (Website Building Tips For Dummy Heads)

Mister Viddy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:54:16 +0000

Wait, somebody told you that building a website was easy? And you fell for it? Now that the damage is done and you have come to the realization that you have gotten in way over your head let me give you a few tips that will help you learn the basics of website design.

Ok, I was kidding. You are hosed. That burning feeling, it’s the stupid. If you’re in luck then you can cancel your web hosting account and get your money back. If not, then you are really fucked. Seriously. You must have known that it was too good to be true. How can designing a website be easy when you don’t even know what HTML stands for. I hate to break it to you but the only way you are going to have a decent looking website is to pay someone to design it for you. Reality bites.

Let’s be real. Before you even consider trying to build your own website maybe you should start with something easy like learning the difference between the address bar and the search bar in your browser. And that is another thing. Do you even know what a browser is? Exactly. I cannot stress this enough, you DO NOT WANT TO DESIGN YOUR OWN WEBSITE! It will only bring you misery. And, by some stroke of pure luck, you do manage to put together a few, very poorly designed web pages the next thing you will experience is the agonizing reality that you’ll never turn up in any of the search engines. Listen to me folks, I am an expert. You do not want this much misery in your life.

If I can persuade even one person to not design their own website then I feel that I have helped make one life better.

How To Display An Image On Your Web Page

Mister Viddy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:41:08 +0000

You have a website or online store and you want to display an image but you are asking yourself how do you do it? Magic. No, not really. Just a little bit of HTML and you’ll be all set.

In HTML, images are defined with the tag. The tag is empty, which means that it contains attributes only and it has no closing tag.

To display an image on a page, you need to use the src attribute. Src stands for “source”. The value of the src attribute is the URL of the image you want to display on your page. The syntax you need to use is:

You are telling the browser that you want to display an image that is stored in whatever URL is located in between the quotes. For example, you want to display and image named “familyphoto.jpg” and you have that image stored in a directory called images on the server hosting your account. You would use the following syntax in order to get that image to show up on a page of your website:

The browser will display the image based on where you insert the code above into your web page. If you are trying to insert a logo for example, you would insert the code into the section of your home page. Or if you have several paragraphs of written text you would be able to insert the code between two of the paragraphs and the image would display there instead.

You can follow the same syntax above to insert multiple images in multiple locations by changing the name of the image file to whatever image it is you want to display.

This is a simple way to display an image but by no means is it the only way. We’ll discuss more options on how to display images on a web page later.

In the meantime, if you have a question on this subject feel free to contact me using the Contact Mister Viddy link on the upper right portion of the sidebar. I try to respond to all questions or comments within 24hrs.

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Day 23: A Post A Day (Website Building Tips For Dummy Heads)

How To Display An Image On Your Web Page