On 24 Jul 2005, at 02:00, Joy Beeson wrote:
Here's a tip for those of you without a Web site:
Yahoo is still providing this service, and the files allotment
is more generous than ever. You could create a whole site
on your own computer and then upload it to the files area.
AFAIK a website on Yahoo Geocities has to be all at one level in the
folder; sub-folders to make organisation of the files easier/more
logical creates lots of problems with these sites.
Hand-coding is still the best way to create a Web site, by
the way.
If you can hand-code you can work around it when things go wrong in the
all singing-all dancing website creation software, but if you don't
understand the html you're snookered when something goes wrong.
I read recently that all the information you need to
write the latest and most-complicated descendant of HTML
can be written in twelve-point type on one side of a sheet of
letter paper. I never looked into it because I'm quite happy
with the pages I can create using only a pasted-in set of headers
and <p>, <br>, <hr>, , <h1> . . . <h6>,
and the occasional <em>.
You need tables if you are at all fussy about how the page layout goes.
You also need javascript for some things.
Personally I learned html using software that just did the common stuff
like <p> and <center>
(HTML Edit for RISC OS and then PageSpinner for Mac) I've recently
"upgraded " to Dreamweaver because I've been doing a website creation
course which used it, but I'm really glad that I'd got that background
knowledge of hand coding. During the exam it all went a bit pear
shaped because I hadn't set up the root of the website in the right
place and none of the page links worked but I was able to sort out all
the ../ bits by hand. Still awaiting the exam result.
I was shocked one day to catch myself pondering that HTML
would be an ideal medium for e-mail. The real thing had become
completely disassociated in my mind from the appalling garbage
churned out by "HTML" e-mail programs.
Quite right that you were shocked! It's plain text for email and html
for web browsers.
(When HTML is <em>real</em>, it's easy to read the source!
It's the javascript etc that makes reading the source difficult, or
frames!
Brenda
Just back from holiday with over 400 emails to wade through and a
poorly computer so I'm using the laptop which I find harder to type on.
The big mac had been acting up a bit just before we went away - the
spinning beachball had become more frequent and then I got several
kernel panics. Another one this morning but on restart the curser was
frozen so I couldn't do anything except force restart again, but to no
avail. I don't feel confident enough to restart holding down various
keys and then fiddle around with unix commands so it's gone to the mac
hospital. Hopefully it will be a software glitch rather than hardware,
but either way it will be expensive :-(
Fortunately I've got the mail preferences set to delete messages from
the ISP server a week after downloading so I've been able to retrieve
most messages onto the laptop, and anyway I went into the public
library once whilst we were away and looked at the emails via webmail,
and replied to the urgent ones and deleted a lot of spam; I don't have
many addresses in the laptop address book, but I don't think I've lost
any important messages either.
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk
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