[Sussex] html and stuff

[john davis]

Hi list,

At the end of last week I posted a question about html and stuff, in the hope 
that someone could come up with an alternative solution to being stuck with 
having to use F******** from those glorious "cash meisters" at M$. Though I 
should remind you all that this was due to my ignorance in matters HTML and 
it's "ilk".

You responded magnificently, and I can't thank you enough.

I will admit, that my initial thoughts (with quite a lot of the suggestions 
were "and how the f*** do they expect me to do that"). But as I was following 
links and generally looking into following your advice, I have managed to 
suss out a few things to be able to understand your advice more fully.

Paul Turners suggestion to try O'Reilly's book's, have yet to bare fruit 
(work, money, time and some of the "reviews" at amazon have left me undecided 
which book(s) I will eventually end up with - though that's just a matter of 
time)

John Crowhurst's suggestion of trying "sausage" software have been the biggest 
eye opener. After downloading "sausage" and installing it (then discovering 
it's a time limited trial version), mean that when I noticed that it's not a 
WYSIWYG type application, enabled me to go back into my mandrake install and 
re-examine BLUEFISH.

And like the proverbial "bolt of lightening", it dawned on me. What with 
Geoff's suggestions for text editors (not sure if I'm quite ready for that 
yet) and tags - mean that I now follow what was said about headers, 
paragraphs and so on.


One of the other things that was preying on my mind was the lack of scanning 
facility under mandrake. Over the weekend I have managed (finally) to get it 
working (though for some strange reason, sane insists in identifying it as an 
epson GT7000 instead of the epson perfection 1260 photo, that it actually is 
- though this maybe to do with the fact that the instructions that I followed 
where "monkey see, monkey do" and I haven't yet managed to use the most up to 
date sane/xsane/driver etc -not sure). 


Anyway, this has all culminated in me starting to build my website with 
Bluefish and the gimp - I doubt whether it will be much more than a basic 
text/picture thing to start with (but I've got to start somewhere) - I'm 
still trying to get my head around the image/resolution/file size thing - as 
I see no point in producing something that looks quite flashy, but takes a 
virtual millennium to load. Hopefully an atom in a very small nail in a tiny 
batten in the coffin of microsoft!!! lol

Oh and while I think about it, I noticed from the w3c mark up site something 
about the latest version of HTML being released soon - what does this really 
mean - It said something about supporting additional features etc, but I 
didn't quite follow what they actually meant by that?

Anyhow, when i've got it finished, I'll post the URL and you can all have a 
look and tell me what an unoriginal pile of crap I have produced!

Again, many thanks for the outstanding advice. All your suggestions are very 
much appreciated - and I will post more idiot questions IDC.

regards

John D :-)
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