Development
       
  Why do professionally designed webpages look the way they do?  
  Name and describe three elements that will make the difference between amateur and professional looking Web development.  
       
  Congratulations!
If, during the last lesson, you created and uploaded content to the Internet for the first time, you are undoubtedly the proud parent of your first webpage! However, you might realize that your efforts could be beautified by using images, colors, and appropriate fonts.

While it's beyond the scope of this course to teach you advanced programming, you can examine some of the elements that give professionally created webpages their look.

 
Improving your page's aesthetics
 

A useful reference for this topic is the Yale Web Style Guide. Contained within its contents are detailed explanations of each of the considerations addressed below.

To learn more about Font, Color and Graphics, click the appropriate term below.

 
Next lesson
  In the next lesson, you will learn how to organize the directory structure of your Web page (or e-Learning course).