Allen Lanphear wrote:
Hey Folks,
Recently I purchased Scott Mitchell's book, Create You Own Website, in which he
supplied a CD with Seamonkey suite and instructions how to build my own website.
Before I killed the application by switching to Windows 7 from Vista, things
were starting out fine. What I mean is: what happened to Seamonkey Composer?
Help! I am drowning in tech-talk and confusion (not always the same thing,
right?).
Please send help.
Thank you for whatever you can do,
Allen Lanphear
(Wannabe Web Developer)
Some general thoughts on learning HTML/CSS.
I too started with Composer (in about 1995). But, WYSIWYG editors
shield you from what actually is going on in the "code" and you never
learn anything about the technicalities if that's all you do, use,
learn, etc. Hence, when something doesn't "work" the way you want it
to, you're at a total loss about what to do.
Look at what others have suggested as learning tools. Learn to write
HTML and CSS in a plain-text editor. Composer (and similar WYSIWYG
editors) will only take you so far.
Also, as you build a "page" use the Validators to check your work and
make sure it conforms to standards:
http://validator.w3.org/ - for HTML validation
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - for CSS validation
Newsgroups to peruse:
alt.html
alt.www.webmaster
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets
And, when venturing into Usenet groups, grow a thick hide. ;-) But
don't be afraid to ask questions. It's how we all learned.
By the way, my current personal site is linked in my signature below.
But here's an archived site of mine from around 1997:
http://edmullen.net/preframe/FOYER.HTM#mastercontents
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: First, get a huge block
of marble; then chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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