Would it be ok for us to build a webpage for SH to host before we post an Ad? We`d get great enjoyment from building one, showing off our wares etc, but I`m not quite ready to advertise for meets yet.
If it`s ok, then I`d need some advice on how to build from scratch, I`m pretty good at editing existing sites, and have some basic knowledge of HTML, and SQL, but this is based on self taught `muddling through`, which I enjoy! Yet I am amazingly ignorant of some of the basics. Would I need a programme to test the HTML off line first? I assume I would, but I don`t know what these programmes are called, so if someone could point me in the right direction I`d appreciate it!
Yes, I will blush, I probably deserve to!
Venusxxx
Just imagine how dull life would be without warts!!
One of my favourite sites that I may occasionnally check to brush up on a few things is
It is a learn as you go free online tutorial for first timers all the way to database driven and cold fusion etc...
I may suggest that you go to the authoring and HTML basics as this is generally a good place to start and if you know some already then you may learn different techniques on how to keep you code clean (something MS Publisher and other web authoring packages do not do).
You will most probably write the pages in notepad and save them as *.htm files. You can edit these with notepad when you feel like it and view the changes in your browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator etc).
It may seem a very large and daunting site but just go to the places that you need to know and forget about the backend or database connection until you want to start the more advanced courses.
Happy coding.
Yeah, sorry about the not so clear techno talk. I has a little tipsy from the night before.
What I meant to say was.
What I meant is that when you save the file as (anything) and right click the icon you can choose edit. This will (hopefully) open up notepad.
You can also just double click on and it should open in IE. With both of these open (note pad and IE) whenever you make changes in notepad and choose 'file, save' you can just press the refresh in IE and it will show the changes.
Keep doing that and you will have a finished web page in no time.
When you think you have al of the pages done and your pictures are located in the right folders, just zip it all up and either email it over to Mark or you can ftp (file transfer protocall - move the files onto the web space) them over to the web space you may have.