[Sussex] html and stuff

[Mark Harrison]

John,

I speak as probably the most Pro-Microsoft person on the list, but even I will say "don't use FrontPage"... 

HTML is a great thing, in that it's simple to get started with, and you don't need _any_ sophisticated tools.

Personally, I write most of my static websites in notepad...

I would use, as a starting resource, http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ - w3c, the World Wide Web Consortium is _the_ definitive reference for HTML (they "own" the specification), and cater well for everyone from a beginner writing their first website, to a protocol designer seeking to influence the next generation of HTML....

Regards,

Mark

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John D. 
  To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:32 PM
  Subject: [Sussex] html and stuff


  Hi list,

  I would like to have a go at designing a website. 

  I have access to frontpage 2k and a copy of the orifice 2k "dummies" book. While I have also looked at whats available as an open source alternative and all I can find is bluefish and amaya.

  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.

  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?

  regards

  John D:?
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