Webpage Tips & Tricks
Everybody has their own opinion on how a web page should be setup. I offer some of my thoughts as to things you should and should not do when setting up your web page.
Issue: Underlining text on a web page
My Thoughts: Never Never Never, unless the text is a link. When you setup a link to another page using text, the text is underlined by default. Over the years everybody has gotten use to the idea that underlined text is a link so if you underline text to highlight it for others people think it's a link. If they click on the underlined text and it doesn't take them anywhere they think you have a sloppy website and you have a broken link.
Issue: You go to a web page that has images mixed with text and the text is almost touching the image
My Thoughts: This is a very common problem. I see it all the time and it drives my crazy. Most website tools offer easy solutions for adding some space between the picture and the text. Normally you will find a place in the picture properties window. Spend the extra 10 seconds it takes to add margins to the pictures. Your website will look a lot nicer.
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