How many of you have done it? Not a commercial site and not trying to sell something. I am working on building my own. I am coding it myself and not using FrontPage or other page-builder program. I am using NoteTab Lite, a free HTML editor similar to WordPad.

I am still developing the look and feel so it does not become one of those

 

Best advice I could give you is learn CSS, and forget layout using html tables.

Using CSS, you can truly separate content from layout... plus it looks SO much better!

Check these out:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

http://www.literarymoose.info/=/css.xhtml

http://www.moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/

http://placenamehere.com/neuralustmirror/200202/

http://www.mezzoblue.com/

 

I work in the .com world, so when I do my personal site it's all "no frills", get the info across as quick and easy as possible.

http://daveblood.com/ (basic html)

and my band: http://theexperiments.com/ (that site uses an open-source php and mysql based website engine that I tweaked a bit)

I don't do "front end" work, so I don't even know CSS or that stuff. I just type up some html in emacs.
I learned HTML in 1998, so CSS wasn't around yet. I still use FONT tags and the like, because I never needed to learn that newfangled stuff.

I do backend, database programming, and system admin stuff. Unix, Perl, Apache, MySql. I usually generate the data and hand off XML to the front end guys who make it all pretty for the users.

I host myself via DSL from Speakasy.net.

good luck.

 

Real men use Vi

 

Hmm, real men can't even spell Vi

 

Thanks for the info and links, good stuff. I am spending my time pretty equally between developing the content, working on graphics/design, figuring out CSS, and learning how to do things in Photoshop. I have self-made buttons!!

 

My site has been in the worx for a couple of months now and keeps growing cuz I get bored at work.....I port forward my router and log in from work.......I spend time tweaking images, locations and flash etc..... I use FP and DW.....I like the mix of the tools.......look at other source codes and just get going.....it will start to become second nature and a hobby of creation that will relax ya.....my site runs off a dual pentium III 667 w/ a Asus MB using Apache software connected to cable bandwidth....I use XP OS for the webserver...XP takes advantage of the dual processors....my network(router is a netgear w/ NAT) consist of 3 boxes...I run dual boot w/ xp and win2000 on 1 box ..Suse Linux 9.0 Pro on the 2nd and the 3rd is the webserver.....good luck in your webmastering............the site is for pure fun.....no money made here.....no ads...no pop up crap etc...

 

I actually design and host websites.

Here's my site ...

http://www.webcorestudios.com/

If you need any help Hustn, please PM me or email me.

~ Ryan

 

LOL True. Undoubtedly 'vi' woud be the correct command line syntax but it's commonly referred to as 'Vi' and also 'VI' on many Unix networking and university sites and texts.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by geekd
I just type up some html in emacs.