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Money Management

I have recently noticed that you have reduced you trading activity and you are hardly opening positions. Even though you recently encountered some loses on your account, you shouldn’t let it reflect your trading capabilities. Most new traders quickly become discouraged due to a few losses, giving up on this potential market. To help you develop a strategy and allow you to overcome problems experienced by beginners, I have listed a few points below that I would advise you to take into consideration, especially as they helped me tremendously, when I first started to trade. STEP 1: Motivation and Determination Remember that all successful traders start from scratch. No one is born a trader and all novices go through a learning curve overcoming losing trades. The difference between a long term profitable trader and an unprofitable one is motivation and Determination. STEP 2: Get to Know your Strengths and Weaknesses When starting out, make a list of your strengths and weaknesses. F...

Web Design Basic 2

Web Layout Basics When people think of Web design often what they mean is the layout. Layout is the organization of elements on a Web page. First you need to start with basic design principles. Once you understand them, you can move through how to place elements on your Web page. These links and resources will take you through the steps to learn good Web layout design. Tackling Web Navigation Navigation is how your customers get around from one page to another on a Web site. Navigation provides movement and gives your customers the chance to find other elements of your site. You need to make sure that the structure of your Web site (the information architecture) makes sense so that your customers aren't forced to simply use search. Accessibility and Usability Accessibility and usability are often seen as a detriment to Web design, but a good designer focuses on making their site useful to as many people as possible. The links below take you through the basics of making an ac...

Web Design Basic

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Web design uses all the same elements as print design. You need to explore the space and layout, handle fonts and colors, and put it all together in a format that puts your message across. These resources will help you learn Web design whether you are already a professional Web developer or just getting started in the Web arena. -Elements of Good Design -Fonts and Typography -How to Use Color -Graphics and Images -Web Layout Basics -Tackling Web Navigation -Accessibility and Usability -Web Design Software Elements of Good Design Good Web design is the same as good design. If you understand the elements that make up good design, you'll have a Web page that works well. These elements of good design apply whether you are writing a Web page, a business card, or a t-shirt and once you understand them you'll have the skills to be a great designer. Fonts and Typography Fonts are the way your text looks on a Web page. And most Web pages have large amounts of text. When y...

Accessible Web design

To be accessible, web pages and sites must conform to certain accessibility principles. These accessibility principles are known as the WCAG when talking about content. These can be grouped into the following main areas.[3] * Use semantic markup that provides a meaningful structure to the document (i.e. web page) * Semantic markup also refers to semantically organizing the web page structure and publishing web services description accordingly so that they can be recognized by other web services on different web pages. Standards for semantic web are set by IEEE * Use a valid markup language that conforms to a published DTD or Schema * Provide text equivalents for any non-text components (e.g. images, multimedia) * Use hyperlinks that make sense when read out of context. (e.g. avoid "Click Here") * Don't use frames * Use CSS rather than HTML tables for layout * Author the page so that when the source code is read line-by-line by user...

Web design

Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers. The intent of web design[1] is to create a web site—a collection of electronic documents and applications that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text, bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs) and forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags. Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML i...