Friday, February 19th, 2010
The initial series of tutorials on using NVU to create standards compliant web pages comes to an end with this eleventh tutorial which covers how to actually publish the pages that you have created to your web site. At this point if you have worked your way through from tutorial one you will know how [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Apart from the text, the next most commonly used elements in web pages are images. We have already dealt with attaching images into our page template so that they appear on all our pages but these are not the only images we will want on our site. In the tenth tutorial on NVU we look [...]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
More additions to my series of tutorials on using NVU. In this ninth tutorial we look at how we can update a web page to add lists and links into our content so as to break up the text and provide in content links to other pages in addition to the standard navigation built into [...]
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
For the search engines to display something meaningful for your web page in their search results, your page needs to have a meaningful title and a brief description in the meta data. The eighth tutorial on how to use NVU looks at how we can access these fields in the page source via the WYSIWYG [...]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
In the seventh tutorial on using NVU we finally look at what we need to do to start creating web pages based on the template that we have customised in the prior tutorials. Creating Pages from your Template
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Updating the background colours and images is the final step in converting a generic template into the custom template that you will use as the basis for all the pages on your web site. Exactly how you do these background changes depends on whether you have selected a template that does things properly using a [...]
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
With the text and links in your template set up to what you want, the next step in customising your web page template is to change any foreground images. In the fifth NVU tutorial I go step by step through how to do that. Replacing Foreground Images
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Once you have the template you found loaded into NVU, the first thing you need to do is to modify it so as to create the actual template that you want to use as the basis for the web pages for your site. Hopefully the actual layout of the page will be what you want [...]
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
The easiest way for a newbie webmaster to create web pages in NVU is if they first find a page template to use as a starting point. Obviously they will not find one that has all of their content filled in (not even the basic content that they want in all their pages) but as [...]
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Once you have NVU or Kompozer installed then the next step is to configure it properly. If you don’t then you will end up with garbage instead of valid HTML. Configuring NVU
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The first in my series of tutorials on how to install and use the NVU web editor (also applicable to the Kompozer web editor that developed from NVU). Installing NVU
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