I highly recommend against Composer. I've used it, and it produces messy code with - at least in the version I've used - enough slop and incompatibility with several browsers to make it, if not useless in some situations, a poor choice.
I've been playing around writing with writing HTML by hand for a few months now, and while I'm far from an expert, I believe that learning code in such a manner, and understanding the differences in browsers and platforms, will allow for a better final product. And for something as simple as putting up a few pages of photographs, once you've worked through the details to make the code acceptable to the widest audience - i.e., number of browsers and platforms - the rest is just like painting by numbers, and, as you said, filling in the blanks with your preferred images and text. You'll have a great template and will have learned a useful, if not valuable, skill. Richard Seaman wrote: > As far as your website construction is concerned, could I highly > recommend getting hold of Netscape Composer? It's free for download from > www.netscape.com. It's part of the Netscape browser, just select "file" > then "edit page" and you're in Composer. It's pretty much a "what you see > is what you get" editor, and you never have to look at another line of HTML > again, if you don't want to! > > I've noticed a phenomenon with people who start to create their own > website; many people start and then reach a plateau, not adding more stuff > to their website because it's slightly burdensome. That's where I think > Composer helps a lot - you can concentrate on your photography and leave the > details of web development to Composer. To me, it's a bit like the rabbit > and the hare: some people start out doing fancy stuff manually but soon give > up, but if you keep it simple then you can concentrate on the content and > it's easy to add new pages. With simple blank templates you can quickly put > up a new page just replacing the template images with your new photographic > images. > > Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash, and Merry > Christmas/Hannukah/Eid/Kwaanza, etc... > > Richard. > > home page: www.richard-seaman.com > > --- original message --- > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > After considerable knashing of teeth and whining to Shel about how hard > this is, I have finally managed to construct the beginnings of a > website. I still haven't figured out the thumbnail thing, so I have to > apologize for a page of medium size jpegs, but at least it's a page :-). > And I don't think these would be the photos I would choose to define my > work, but, hey, they were hanging around on my hard drive. So with all > those disclaimers, it's here > http://home.earthlink.net/~pnstenquist/index.html > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
