I've put it off for long enough - web pages

[robp]

OK, now Broadband is in I have no excuse not to have a go at this website thing and stop being so lazy(I'm so cutting edge)

I want to learn how to build a simple site, host pictures and a bit of text (about cars I'm sure).

Whats the best way to go about this? Use software or read a good book or net pages? Trial and error?

I think my NTL account gives me some free space to use.

Any advice appriciated.

Thanks

[FourWheelDrift]

Probably the easiest way is to get a free HTML editor that displays the various HTML code in colour sections - links in green, image details in red etc...
So you can see what bit's of code do what are how they work & are set out.

Something like CuteHTML then.
Notepad won't work as all the text is of course black.

Then find a web page layout you like, save the webpage and load it into CuteHTML and have a look at how it's constructed, play around with it and see what happens if you change some of it around.

If of course you modify it to suit you don't use any copyrighted things just the layout as a template for your own use

[nevpugh308]

For an absolute beginner, wouldn't something like Microsoft FrontBottom (er, sorry, FrontPage) be better ? Okay, I know it's not the worlds best, but for simple pages it's okay, and it's easy for peeps to get up and running with without having to learn HTML ?

[robp]

Interesting,

I was hoping more along the lines of designing it in MS Publisher or something similar using the "web page wizard" then simply uploading it (dont know how to do that either!) to my webspace(if I have any!)

I'll have a look for FP, I'm sure I have it somewhere.

[RichB]

I used frontpage to build mine and it was relativly simple, well actually I stumbled around for quite a while but eventually got the hang of what I was doing.
YOur ISP should give you a URL then you can oipen your empty page and using the editor start to create something simple. Put a few pics and whatnot onthere to get the hang of it all. Rich...

[robp]

RichB said:

I used frontpage to build mine and it was relativly simple, well actually I stumbled around for quite a while but eventually got the hang of what I was doing. YOur ISP should give you a URL then you can oipen your empty page and using the editor start to create something simple. Put a few pics and whatnot onthere to get the hang of it all. Rich...

I'll drop NTL a line and see what my address is.

[RichB]

robp said:

RichB said: I used frontpage to build mine and it was relativly simple, well actually I stumbled around for quite a while but eventually got the hang of what I was doing. YOur ISP should give you a URL then you can oipen your empty page and using the editor start to create something simple. Put a few pics and whatnot onthere to get the hang of it all. Rich... Ummm... being internet and all that you should be able to do it on-line. R... I'll drop NTL a line and see what my address is.

[robp]

RichB said:

robp said: RichB said: I used frontpage to build mine and it was relativly simple, well actually I stumbled around for quite a while but eventually got the hang of what I was doing. YOur ISP should give you a URL then you can oipen your empty page and using the editor start to create something simple. Put a few pics and whatnot onthere to get the hang of it all. Rich... Ummm... being internet and all that you should be able to do it on-line. R... I'll drop NTL a line and see what my address is.

Sorry, just a figure of speech, I will do it online (have you ever tried ringing NTL!!!, it aint worth it!)

[nevpugh308]

robp, publishing from FrontPage is usually quite simple. You just need to find out what your URL (webspace) is, and what username and password to use.

[theexcession]

About 5 years ago when we were training as web developers we were made to use notepad - its the only way to really learn the art of HTML authoring - I guess there are better options now!

However if all you want to do is knock out a few pages with pictures on it then Microsoft Word will export to HTML.

But for your first attempt I'd still recomend getting notepad out and creating two or three really simple pages, learn how to author hyperlinks using the HREF tag, learn how to include pictures using the IMG tag and then learn the black art of the TABLE tag.

Once you have these three tags mastered there really isn't much you can't do - apart from codingFRames and they aren't difficult.

Check out Google for some HTML tutorials - there are plenty.

I did web design for a few years and was basically cr4p at - I've no artistic talent whatsoever, all my pages just looked flat and boring - I moved into the backend stuff developing java and VB script which I found more stimulating.


best
Ex

P.S. - once you get the hang of reading HTML don't forget that when you find a page you like you can always right-click and 'view soure' - and there it is for you to rip as you like!

>> Edited by theexcession on Thursday 28th August 18:26