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Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - NOS2Go4Me - 02-18-2006
I know a decent bit of "old school" HTML coding, none of the newer stuff tho.
I've finally gotten around to getting a domain name, and it'll be a multi-purpose website.
I'm hoping someone can point me to some free templates that can be customized fairly painlessly with basic HTML code. I'm using a neat free HTML editor I've used for years called 1stPage, none of that FrontPage bloatware here.
My current content is horribly obsolete and pointless, but I find myself haunted by the old schemes and unable to dream up a new idea.
Help?
Oh, the how-tos will be back tonight unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong in the next 5 minutes.
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - ZX5focused - 02-18-2006
i dunno about sites, but i took an intro to internet class last year, and learned a good amount of html. that i mostly forget now.
the text book that we used was really good, and it explained how to do a lot of things. it handles all the basic s***, but gets pretty indepth on some other things.
heres a link to it that i found on amazon.sams teach yourself HTML
id recomend it for anyone who wants a basic grasp on HTML coding and would like to learn some more complex stuff.
edit---they seem to have it in digital (pdf) also for sale for 13.59.
meaning you could probly "acquire it" somewhere else.....
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - jcarle - 02-18-2006
I can give you a hand if you need it.
Here's some of the sites I've built entirely from scratch:
http://www.enhancedhealthcenter.com/ (Customer's)
http://www.theultimateguide.ca/ (Mine, going offline in a couple of days)
http://www.msninformatique.com/ (My work, I still develop it)
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - Phantom - 02-18-2006
jcarle,Feb 17 2006, 11:09 PM Wrote:I can give you a hand if you need it.Eeek french website don't trust the frenchie...... Just kidding :D
Here's some of the sites I've built entirely from scratch:
http://www.enhancedhealthcenter.com/ (Customer's)
http://www.theultimateguide.ca/ (Mine, going offline in a couple of days)
http://www.msninformatique.com/ (My work, I still develop it)
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but seriously the french..
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - darkpuppet - 02-19-2006
it's easy enough to find information on HTML coding, a quick search will get what you need. But you should probably read up on XHTML as well since it's the latest and greatest..
If you want to buid a website, find one you like the look of, capture a page to your hdd, and edit away... sure it's plagarism, but it's the quickest way to get started.
I recommend staying away from WYSIWYG editors as they build overly complicated HTML that will be more difficult to debug. Just get a simple context sensitive hilghlighting editor and you're good to go.
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - NOS2Go4Me - 02-20-2006
darkpuppet,Feb 18 2006, 02:22 PM Wrote:Just get a simple context sensitive hilghlighting editor and you're good to go.
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Was waiting for you to post :)
Yeah, 1stPage is just that... all code is your own, nothing hidden or auto-generated at save time.
As for the rest, I'll consider it. I'd genuinely feel bad doing it, because I'd s*** if someone took one of my ghost images for an "uber server" as it were and then just renamed the box.
Sorta outta context, but you get the idea. Jcarle, I'll let you know man. I appreciate the offer and I appreciate the links guys.
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - darkpuppet - 02-20-2006
Everyone in the web business has plagarized at one point or another. There are so many businesses that are running pages stolen from their competitors, it's not even funny.
And it's one of the best ways to learn HTML. You'll see both the cause and the effect.
Eventually, you'll be able to look at HTML like it were the matrix, instead of embedded tables and jibberish, all you'll see are perfect porn layouts. If you rely on a WYSIWYG editor, you're going to end up with a mess.
I wish I could show you the differences, but on the aircanada website, there were JSPs I was working on that were previously made with a WYSIWYG editor... I cleaned it up, and the pages would end up being upwards of 15-20Kb smaller..not to mention infinitely easier to read!
Need A Hand With Basic Website Design - nass - 02-21-2006
I am in the same boat as Nos. My friend just started up his own wholesale tools business and asked if I could make him a site and of course I was like sure I can try. I borrowed the source code from a website he liked but it seems to have a lot of scripts and whatnot that is being called in the code.
All the html stuff is coming back to me slowly so it should to you too Nos. Letme know if you get anything worth while for your page.
Thanks