On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:07, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paulo: >
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your email. > Try using PHP or Mason to create templates. That will save you a lot of time. > Also, b/c something is a GUI, such as WYSIWYG applications, does not mean you > can develop web sites faster in my opinion. I find that I had to always > debug the (X)HTML in both Dreamweaver and FrontPage to get it right. > OK, think I'm going to learn PHP and try it out. > Using CSS will help you make your web sites really cool. Check out my web > site and clink on the CSS themes below the left picture, > www.amerasianworld.com. Not only can you easily change the colors, you can > also change the layout (my next future task for my web site). The key is to > structure your (X)HTML document properly. The nice thing about XHTML is that > it requires less code and you can finally get rid of those bandwidth eating > tables. CSS can cut your web page file sizes up to around 50 percent. That > is great news if you are concerned about bandwidth. > Great! I'll try CSS out too. > If you want a server, you should definately emerge one of the Apache servers. > I have PHP and mod_php installed plus Perl. There are a lot of online > documents that can tell you how to set up an Apache server. > I already have those, just need to set it up and unfortunately after searching for apache 2 set up or apache 2 config I didn't find much. However I sent an email to the apache users ML and help is on the way. :D > I am in the same boat as you in regards to horrible ISPs. I am with Comcast > in the states. We are currently not allowed to run servers and they also > give us dynamic IPs. I am thinking about also getting Earthlink DSL just for > my server in the future who allow the purchase of static IPs. > If your IP is dynamic how were you able to host a homepage? How have you managed that huge problem? Best regards, Paulo Matos > Kevin > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 11:07 am, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de > Matos wrote: > > Thanks all for your help on this issue, I know XHTML and a little more > > for web page design but I'd like to know if there were any editor for > > rapid development since I have much to do and want to lose little time > > with this website although I want it to be cool. > > > > Ok, imagine I forget this WYSIWYG nonsense and I commit myself 100% to > > this website. Which tecnologies do I need to learn besides XHTML to > > create a state of the art website on Gentoo? > > > > I was thinking to host this website in my computer but it is completely > > impossible, since my IP is dynamic and my ISP limits my monthly uploads > > and downloads (acceptable values for me but it makes impossible to host > > a website here). So, how can I host the website? I'll have to pay a > > hosting service provider to host my site. The problem is I'd like to > > have a phpBB and mailman working for forums and mailing lists. Could any > > one direct me on these issues so I can learn more about it? > > > > Until now my state of the art webpage is my academic page and little > > more so I think I need some help with 'where-to-start' on this one. > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Best regards, > > > > Paulo Matos > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/mrvOP2TQUAjSykARAmT/AJ9+rH3QRs/o82em0aYUFSAYzTpWFACfZz8I > sPj1xvMDqb45TMrPlllAYYk= > =BfKk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paulo J. Matos : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm --- -> God had a deadline... So, he wrote it all in Lisp! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
