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<DIV> OK, I'm gonna put myself up for a kicking here.
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<DIV> A friend of mine has a
(<EM><STRONG>very</STRONG></EM> small, just starting out), business, just a
couple of years old and I thought as a bit of free advertising I would see about
setting up a site. This was the second site I put up after playing about
with the free site offered me by my ISP, (which happens to be Eurobell, rant,
rave...). </DIV>
<DIV>Now I had no real experience, knew no-one who could help out, and we
wanted this site up and running as soon as poss, but obviously we wanted it to
be half respectable. I took a look at HTML code and thought, WTF? and
looked about for anything to make life easier. OK, I know this is a real
no-brainer but for speed of setup from knowing nothing to an acceptable looking
site, (considering some that are about), I used NAMO Web Editor 5 on Windows
(trial, 'cos I am tight and poor, a deadly combination). Now we compared
the site against another company that are in the same line of work, in fact they
are the best known company around in this line, and their site was ridiculous,
an absolute mess. (VERY) Recently they have employed someone super-dooper
web designer to update their site and it looks a lot better now, but for how
much? and for at least a bit the site we had looked a lot better, and was
all free (hosting included). The site has now had nearly 10,000 hits,
nearly 5,000 unique visitors, and we get regular email enquiries. I have
added a <EM><STRONG>tiny</STRONG></EM> bit of HTML code myself but know none
really, but the sites up and job done.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> As I said a real no-brainer but it
has done and still does the job it was put there for, and this led to me
being asked to set up a site for an international equestrian company
with bases here and in the U.S.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Don't know if this of any
interest/help but thought I'd mention it just in case. For a peek at the
site see <A
href="http://www.stevessprayshop.0catch.Com">http://www.stevessprayshop.0catch.Com</A> </DIV>
<DIV> Sorry for</DIV>
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1) The Pop-ups, but the site is free, and including code to
stop them will probably get us booted off</DIV>
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2) The invisible window and entering the site, an .swf
animation is displayed in Windows, and I thought all was fine 'till I tried
accessing the site with my Linux setup and saw bugger all, but I've told the
owner it doesn't display, at least on my Linux system and he said, "What system
ya freak? It's alright on Windows thought, yea?" and he likes it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Obviously this is of no real help in
learning to design a site properly, but for us was a cheap and effective
alternative.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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Hope I haven't completely wasted your time,</DIV>
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Scoot</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=big-john@dsl.pipex.com href="mailto:big-john@dsl.pipex.com">John
D.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk
href="mailto:sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk">sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:32
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Sussex] html and stuff</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi list,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to have a go at designing a website.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have access to frontpage 2k and a copy of the
orifice 2k "dummies" book. While I have also</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
looked at whats available as an open source alternative and all I can find is
bluefish and amaya.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now, having to learn the frontpage from scratch
is bad enough, bluefish appears to be more of an advanced/experienced
user app and I don't even know where to start with installing amaya (well
except under wind0w$), let alone using it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, as I hope the eventual result will be
about my efforts to learn linux, if I use the frontpage to learn some of the
techniques (obviously avoiding anything that seems to be to M$ specific) when
I save it as straight html, will I then be able to open it with one of the
open source editors an modify it that way or will I have to get any imagery,
screenshots etc from my mandrake install and e-mail it to myself to be able to
get it from the mandrake to the frontpage, or can I just save it to disc, then
boot back into wind0w$ and open the images with the
frontpage?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John D:?</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>