On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Bill Christensen < [email protected]> wrote:
> > At 1:54 AM -0400 4/3/09, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >I recommend you study the HTML and other web lessons at > ><http://lynda.com>lynda.com. many of these are free and you can > >buy more. Student rates are available also. > > > >These are very informative and are used by pros and students at > >universities and elsewhere. > > > >A bit of knowledge about the importance of an index page and file > >structure will help your site look and operate at it's best. The > >digital imaging lessons will help you optimize the pics for web use > >and help you keep the pages loading fast and save space on the > >server for more. > > Agreed. Knowledge is good. iWeb does some wierd code, from what I've > seen. > > But it should be reasonably functional on nearly any ISP's server. > > >The program you use is not as important as structure. You can even > >do it in Word if you already have that. > > Gyah! No! Bad codemonkey! I assumed that the OP tonycd was just starting out and was not looking to spend much money on this yet. Of course if he gets serious he has many more considerations than just cost in selecting his authoring package. > > > Word continues to improve, but ye gods it puts a lot of unnecessary > garbage in there! I've cleaned up a LOT of "I did it in Word" sites. > They're often easier to just rebuild from scratch. > > In my latest Word rescue (last night) I found that the page which was > built in MS Word displayed properly in most browsers, but completely > bombed in .... you guessed it, MS IE on Windows. How ironic. But not as unexpected as we would have assumed a decade ago! > > > My favorite was the one that had something like 11,000 non-breaking > spaces ( ) on the equivalent of about two 8 1/2 by 11 sized > pages. It sure did run faster once we took them out! > > >But a WYSIWYG makes it easier to see the changes as they are made. > >Dreamweaver lets you see both the design and the code at the same > >time if that helps you learn. > >But anyway you do it it can be creative fun. > > > > The big problem with WYSIWYG (speaking as one who has hand-coded > since 1994) is that even the best of them (Dreamweaver and perhaps a > few others) put a lot of unnecessary code in there, as they are not > able to relate one code insert to the next. So after a few edits, > you tend to see things like: > > <span style="font-size:11px;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span > style="font-size:11px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> > </span></span></span></span> > > (in other words, you had some text there, and you changed the font > size three or four times, then deleted all but a space. Now you have > a big pile of contradictory code which basically does nothing but > slow down your load time. ) > Thanks for the tip. I will look to see if this is reduced by setting up CSS carefully. I will be more aware of decisions on styles to reduce experimentation during the page builds. I will also start looking at removing this extraneous code. Another item on the final checkout list, And I hope tonycd gets to like site building. For me it is an unexpected creative outlet coming from graphics and video. But these days you do what ya gotta do to get your stuff seen. So it is good there is a " fun " aspect to it. Sometimes I have so much fun my head aches real good! Regards Adrian D'Alessio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
