How I built a Genealogy Website
You can build a Website now with a
little help
The aim is to give you the ability to find the sites that
can help you quickly assimilate enough confidence and
knowledge to commence designing web pages within
days.
I need to fire your enthusiasm to have a go, without
cluttering your mind with too many concepts.
Each menu item above has its own page, and after reading
the guidance, you can then visit the Websites offering
the appropriate help or tutorial or free templates.(The
main aim is not to teach you, but direct you to the best
sources)
- "How to Start" page lets you see how coding is constructed enabling you to try out your own page.
- The "(X)HTML Tutorials" page gives guidance as to how to use tutorials, giving you the chance to assimilate sufficient knowledge to produce simple pages within days. "(X)HTML Templates" also appear on this page, enabling you to look at different approaches to page design. You will see fixed and floating designs (The terms are explained in the tutorials), with many of these free templates having their own CSS designed style sheets from which you can learn how they work with HTML.
- The "CSS Tutorials" page will look at
some standard tutorials, but also give access ongoing
design advice using CSS (Some also come with their own
HTML and Javascript if used.) When viewing "CSS
Templates" many of the authors explain in detail about
their CSS Designs, giving you the chance to tailor one to
your exact requirements.
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"Web Design" is a very personal thing. The
site has to be attractive, but also functional and
lacking clutter (something I may have failed to do).
The sites will approach design from a number of
different aspects, and you will see many attractive
layouts, giving you chance to judge for yourself.
-
"Web Information" will cover quite a wide
area of other items of interest, such as Javascript,
jQuery,Java and reference to many of the newer
languages used in web design now. At this stage even I
have not gone to deeply letting others provide the
coding to achieve a particular effect.
- You will find that a lot of the sites duplicate the subject matter, be prepared to look for tutorials or free page templates, on the same site.
"Good Design is brought about by good research and even better coding"
Hopefully the recommended sites will come up with the goods !!
Before you proceed further, you may
find that downloading a HTML WYSIWYG (What you
see is what you get) Editor will help you a lot
in spotting mistakes when you are coding.
Across in Text Editor Sites I have
given you a number of sites that provide free or very
cheap, but excellent Editors. You will also see on
some pages a "Quotes in the form of Tips " brought
about by experience of
searching
for errors that are right in front of you all the
time.
A good editor will highlight errors in
colour, after checking your
code.
Well I hope that when you have finished perusing the
various Websites, you will feel that you have a better
idea as
to
how to start your own Web Site.
I have recommended some sites and
acknowledge their help in providing free templates for
my use..