FWIW, I'Ve switch back to mutt. i can't live without vi....
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:30:05AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Don't bother, Gary. > > The world is moving towards CMS systems for hosting websites. do we have such a mngnmt system tool in ports?? > > The ultra-cheapo people use godaddy's site builder and > put crap on a crappy-looking interface. HMmmm. it's ben my experience that if you keep a page *simple*, that serves best. now i'm not talking about "Sam's New and Used Dildos and Computers" that's got animations screaming at you. With 50 text and graphic ads/page plus flashing text. i'm talking about something more together. low-impact AND inventive. i've learned that if the content sux, all the bells and whistles won't help. > > The better hosting companies each have their own site builders > and look better, and are populated by acres of garden-variety corporate > and the occassional personal sites. > > Very, very few people custom-write sites in HTML anymore. > Most people use sitebuilding software (frontpage was the original, > it's deprecated now in favor of other newer tools) either running > on their PC or on the server. > > black text on blue is terribly hard to read for most people, > read up on how the human eye works to understand why. the why is simple, reduced contrast; that's why i have black text on a white bg. Or so i thought until i saw how konquorer (and opera) were munging my homepage. firefox displays a graphic [link] with a stylized "J"; it is not displayed by the other 2. that might be where to start looking. > > Put your time into loading a CMS system on your server then > create your site in it. Yes the learning curve is steep in > the beginning but it's not rote memorization of HTML tags. It > is understanding how all the things work together. you probably didn't start with the earlier markup. back then, '93-4, there was <BR>,<P>, <B>, and <EM>. i wrote a 2.2K-line program to handle "hi" -> ``hi'' and a couple other things. the code has evolved, of course, but still works. looks like what i need NOW is a debugger, :-) i have virtually zero design skills .... except "keep it simple" gary > > Ted > [[ save the electrons ]] > > -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"