[CUBE] Off topic

[Joseph B. Gurman]

     Ann Billups broke the Labor Day weekend quiet and wrote:

>This is off topic, but my husband has just decided that he wants to
>have a spiffy web site. We bought our domain name and are researching
>hosting right now.
>
>The program I have is Claris Web Page which he is teaching himself
>using my Wallstreet 233 running 9.2.2. I haven't used it recently and
>we are having problems getting it to recognize photos, either gif's or
>jpeg's. It accepts graphics, but not photos. I am not a coder, so html
>is not my strong suit, and he wasn't sure he wanted to start anything
>that involved.
>
>Do any of you have suggestions for a basic web page development program
>that will run under OS9?

     IMHO, the best way to learn HTML (as opposed to a specific piece 
of Website building software that will always manage to fall short in 
some way, so you'll have to learn another) is the "View Source" 
capability in any Web browser and a text editor (SimpleText if you're 
still using OS 9, TextEdit if you use OS X;; BBedit [commercial] in 
either case --- it does a beautiful job of color-coding HTML tags).

     Find a Web page whose looks you like, get the source, and start 
playing around with it --- it's the time-honored way of learning Web 
design. Yes, Javascrpt and the like may not be worth learning, but 
they may also not be worth putting in your Website.

     A hint as to why "IMHO" is probably valid: if HTML weren't sop 
easy to learn this way, it wouldn't have caught on so fast. There 
were millions of Websites long before there were Web design tools.

      Caveat: you shouldn't use copyrighted material you got in this 
way on your Website --- but you knew that already.

     FWIW,

						Joe Gurman
-- 
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
                                                             - Douglas 
Adams, 1952 - 2001

Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA