HWG-News Tips

Previous Tips:

• Late August 2000: Cross-platform Compatibility
• Late August 2000: Design tips for handheld devices
• Early August 2000: Speeding Up Download Time
• Late September 2002.: Using Frames Effectively
• Early September 2002.: Effective Site Navigation
• Late June 2000: Taking over another author's site
• Early June 2000: Member Tips Categories
• Late May 2000: XHTML Transitioning
• Early May 2000: Solutions for CSS Compatibility Problems
• Late April 2000: Web Accessibility
• Early April 2000: Effective Use of Color
• Late March 2000: Finding Web Design Clients
• Early March 2000: Site Management Strategies
• Late February 2000: Creating Effective Forms
• Early February 2000: Worst Web Design Mistakes
• Late January 2000: Search Engine Placement
• Early January 2000: Optimization Techniques
• Late December 1999: Cascading Style Sheets

Rules

The Guild's foundation is members helping members, sharing our expertise and knowledge to improve our skills in the craft of web design. Everyone has something to teach, and something to learn!

HWG-News features member-submitted "tips" in each issue, in the space between articles and announcements.

Submitted tips MUST meet the following criteria:

1. They should be no more than 8 lines (500 characters, about 80 words) in length.
2. Tips must be quick, direct, and to-the-point. They should be able to stand alone without further explanation. (URLs to more information are acceptable.)
3. They must address the broad topic announced in the previous newsletter.
4. Commercial advertisements or endorsements ("Use product ABC! It's the best!") will most likely be rejected. In general, tips should follow standard W3C specifications on HTML, CSS, and accessibility whenever appropriate.
5. Tips must be received by the posted deadline, a week from the release of each newsletter.
6. The HWG-News editorial staff are the final judges of which tips are selected for publication.

What happens if your tip is selected? Each issue, the first-place winner will receive a free HWG t-shirt; runner-up tips will be also listed in the HWG-News newsletter as space permits!

You can also send your suggestions for tip categories to hwg-news-tips@hwg.org.

Here's an example:

HWG-NEWS TIP: An easy way to get more hits to your site is to use meta tags to add keywords to your page. The syntax is:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3">

--Submitted by Marshall Jansen <marshall@hwg.org>