----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Re: OT? Advice wanted for setting up a web site
> I like simple ... it's all I know how to write at this > point. Hate frames, but it's been suggested that CSS > (Cascading Style Sheets?) is a good way to write code. I do > want to avoid Flash at all costs .... God, do I hate that > crap, especially on slow machines with dial-up connections. > What exactly is javascript? I see it all over the place ... > what does it do, what can it do, that makes so many people > use it? CSS is a great way to unify a web site, since you can make global changes to the look of the site by altering one file. As long as the browser supports it. Otherwise, your website defaults to the browser settings, which may not be so good. Javascript is a relatively simple programming language that can make web sites work more smoothly. If you are using a frameset, javascript is pretty much a necessity to control what each frame will do when a link is invoked. I'm a big fan of tables, since they can be used to hold 2 different things relative to each other (as an example, a picture and the caption below it), and is controllable by either a pixel count (not so good as it is screen size dependant for look) or by percentage (much better, as it no longer matters what the screen size is). Anyway, thats just what I think. William Robb
