ƒ. This doesn't have a number, its more important than anything else. What is it? MAKE YOUR WEB PAGES IN A WORD PROCESSOR! WYSIWYG programs are great for designing things like complex table layouts, but don't make your pages in them. Why not? They generate horrid HTML code (name one site that uses the X-SAS-IMAGE-WIDTH value that was made in simpletext), and just plain aren't cool. This site, I am proud to say, was generated entirely in simpletext.
1. Don't make your web pages require new web browsers. In general, most sites can be made without Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, Cascading Style Sheets, and Inline frames. The one exception to this is plain old ordinary frames. If you make a site with frames, at least include a message that explains why they can't view your page, but preferably a whole non-frames version of the site.
2. If your web page is large, use frames. This allows users to navigate through your site quickly and easily. The best method is to have one frame for a table of contents, and one for content. Look at this site for a good example.
3. If your page uses frames, make them resizable. When I made this site, I was working with an 800x600 monitor, and therefore had a larger-than-normal web browser window, which makes this site look better. To get more viewing area on this page however, you can just shrink the table of contents frame.
4. Don't use background sound. This is just plain annoying, and takes a while to download.
5. After you save your GIF files, open them in a program like A Smaller GIF, and save them again. Depending on the file, you can get a little, or an insanely large amount of additional compression without changing what the file looks like. Soon, 'WebCharger' will come out, which will make your graphics "really, really small." Nobody is sure how though.
6. Use beta versions of Internet Explorer as your browser. They can view the most of any browser (see my 'how new html tags are added' part of the main HTML page), and only take 4 megs of RAM (unlike a certain bloated browser whose name begins with N). They are quick, and if you add all your favorite sites to the favorites menu, you can go to them by only typing the first few letters of their name (to go to www.macaddict.com, I only type m and enter). Don't buy any other Microsoft products though.