How to make a page...

bum · Post by **bum** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:24 am

CerebralAssamite wrote:For beginners you could get your hands on Macromedia's Dreamweaver or even Microsoft's FrontPage, both programs are D&D (drag and drop), but dreamweaver is a lot more advanced, also netscape composer is a good free one, comes with the browser (7Mg download).

Dreamweaver and Frontpage are too expensive for what the average person needs. Personaly I'd go with the composer that comes with mozilla. You can get it from www.mozilla.org . While your their grab the firefox browser. The org works better with it, as does every other web site.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:28 am

For design, just learn HTML. Simple enough. Then, at your option, learn CSS, PHP, XML, XHTML, OMG, WTF, BBQ.
(last three there for humor, come on folks)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:15 am

Kalium wrote:For design, just learn HTML. Simple enough. Then, at your option, learn CSS, PHP, XML, XHTML, OMG, WTF, BBQ.
(last three there for humor, come on folks)

Actually, it's better to learn XHTML and CSS first. XHTML is a much cleaner separation of document structure from document layout than any previous incarnation, which makes your pages easier to view in limited situations, such as user or user-agent handicaps. (HTML 4.01 deprecates a lot of elements, but they still validate.) Additionally, XHTML is much stricter than HTML, which means that there's a good chance you won't produce crap markup.

Finally, these days, a good number of modern graphical browsers can work with XHTML.

However, it's unlikely that the original poster will want to go through all that effort to make a simple page about AMVs, so I second the Mozilla Composer suggestion.