Table of Contents
- General Web Page Questions
- Where to Publish?
- Who to Publish With?
- Authoring Tools
- Should I Bother With Authoring Tools?
- Good Books
- Tables
- Table Width
- Tables vs. Frames
- Tables vs. CSS
- Captions
- My Site
- Blue?
- BBBBBB?
- Search Box
- Why 20m?
Let me tell you right away that this is solely my opinion; you guys may disagree with this. I believe that when publishing a web page, you should look for a short address. Try not to get something that has 100 characters in it. Also, try to look for the word free. Third, try to register from people that will promote your web page.
Yes, I do. HomePage.com (http://www.homepage.com) has a nice text editor, but it doesn't support frames. Bizland (http://www.bizland.com) can get you started on a business, but I have seen it used for personal pages, too. You have a 35MB limit, and a very short address, all for free! If you are registered with Yahoo! Mail, then you can get your own URL that will say www.geocities.com/your yahoo e-mail address. GeoCities, Angelfire, and your ISP are always nice options too. But obviously, GO WITH 20M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are three programs that I have used to create web pages. First, Microsoft FrontPage Express. It is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) program, meaning that you don't have to know much HTML to run it, you just need to type. It is a nice program, but it is hard to alter the HTML code. The second program is HotDog Professional. It's very nice because it shows you the code, so you can use HTML knowledge to create basic sites, but then it has really neat stuff that you can do, like imagemaps, animations, frames, and more.
No. Although authoring tools are very nice to have around if you don't know how to do something, I would recommend Notepad. I have found that the best way to get the site to look how you want it is to write the code yourself. Also, if you construct a page using FrontPage, I have found that is somewhat difficult and annoying to modify. In a JavaScript book that I have, they created a rollover by hand, and it occupied 26 lines of Notepad. One program created the same thing, but it had 106 lines. Another program was "only" 44 lines long, but things were displayed as 12-digit numbers that are next to impossible to modify. Bottom line: Use Notepad.
Yes. Creating Web Pages for Dummies is a good book that tells you about the basics of a web page, plus it has a CD for authoring programs. However, it doesn't teach you much HTML. If you want that, check out HTML 4.0 for Dummies. It has information about the latest version of HTML. In the terms of JavaScript, JavaScript for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition, believes in the phrase that "A picture is worth a thousand words". It shows both the script and the result, and it also includes explanations.
What you should do is put this code in the <table> tag: width=100%
Both frames and tables can have the same effect on a web page. Although tables are supported in almost all browsers, frames (in my opinion), are the way to go because you can use targets, and the information is on different pages, so it is less confusing.
Yes. The main thing that sticks out is the background color. In my tables tutorial, I showed you how to set a column background. You can do the same thing with CSS. Which one should you use? That's your call. Whatever you think is easier. I myself would use CSS because it is a little less complex.
This is easy: In the <caption> tag, add this: align=bottom
I don't know, and I don't know why people ask about this stuff. Don't worry about it!!!!!!!!!!
I was starting to mess around with CSS, and I used it as a header. If you saw that, that means that you need to upgrade your browser.
I went to http://www.atomz.com. All you have to do is register, and they will scan your site, so when you search, it will look for the word that you typed in.
It was referred to me by a friend. You can visit his site at http://www.coolmanchris.20m.com. I checked it out, and the sound of 20 MB of free space was tempting. I had some problems to start, but they have many neat options.