Tips on Using Content

Designing a Website is an important aspect of your Internet venture and approaching it correctly can make all the difference in how visitors - and search engines - view your website.

As commercial news publishers, we have put together some of our best design tips to help you in your site development plans.

Remember if you use copyright free images, videos, sounds etc you must provide a reference list; you may not use copyright material (that's everything that does not state "copyright free" ) in any public document, including websites, without having actual written permission from the original web author to do so. The sticky content found on this Site has been organized for your use. It is top quality content you can trust.

Eyetracking: Studies reveal that people look at webpages differently than a print page. Here is an interesting article by By Laura Ruel and Nora Paul with the Online Journalism Review on an in-depth look into how people scan webpages by usability expert, Jakob Nielson who conducts eyetracking research, titled "Eyetracking Points the way to effective news article design - March 13, 2007."

Just to show you that good site design is timeless, here is an article by Charlie Morris on the Web Developers Virtual Library - which he wrote in 1999 - and is still just as accurate today, entitled: Designing Attractive Web Pages.

Using content on your website varies depending on the type of code used. Here are links to Tutorials courtesy of WDVL.

ASP
Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology provides a framework for building dynamic HTML pages which enable Internet and Intranet applications to be interactive.

Cascading Style Sheets
Style Sheets allow you to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure.

DHTML
"Dynamic HTML" is typically used to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated.

HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the fundamental building stuff of the Web.

PHP
An open-source server-parsed embedded scripting language.

XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a human-readable, machine- understandable, general syntax for describing hierarchical data, applicable to a wide range of applications (databases, e- commerce, Java, Web development, searching, etc.).

Working with Images
Below are several programs used for working with images and links to Tutorials on using them.

An introduction to Paint Shop Pro 5
Introduction to Photo Shop

Basic Web Page Layout & Design
By Roger Lipera Interactive Media Center University Library, UAlbany, SUNY

Writing HTML
A tutorial for creating web pages.

Designing Web Pages with Color
Color on the Web is an excellent way to improve your Web designs. Learn to use color in your Web designs effectively with the color wheel, HTML color codes, and color charts.

Adding Custom Content to your Web Pages
Few website owners can afford to overlook the brand-developing capabilities their site affords them. NewsSticky users can access one of the few resources online to obtain custom content - for free.