I guess I'm going to try to learn as much as I can. Richard's site si quite stunning on my browser and screen. However I'm at 1280 x 1024, and my simple Click and Build looks good on my monitor as well. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a consistent standard? I suppose it's coming, but it may take a while. Paul
Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I highly recommend against Composer. I've used it, and it produces > messy code with - at least in the version I've used - enough slop and > incompatibility with several browsers to make it, if not useless in some > situations, a poor choice. > > I've been playing around writing with writing HTML by hand for a few > months now, and while I'm far from an expert, I believe that learning > code in such a manner, and understanding the differences in browsers and > platforms, will allow for a better final product. > > And for something as simple as putting up a few pages of photographs, > once you've worked through the details to make the code acceptable to > the widest audience - i.e., number of browsers and platforms - the rest > is just like painting by numbers, and, as you said, filling in the > blanks with your preferred images and text. You'll have a great > template and will have learned a useful, if not valuable, skill. > > Richard Seaman wrote: > > > As far as your website construction is concerned, could I highly > > recommend getting hold of Netscape Composer? It's free for download from > > www.netscape.com. It's part of the Netscape browser, just select "file" > > then "edit page" and you're in Composer. It's pretty much a "what you see > > is what you get" editor, and you never have to look at another line of HTML > > again, if you don't want to! > > > > I've noticed a phenomenon with people who start to create their own > > website; many people start and then reach a plateau, not adding more stuff > > to their website because it's slightly burdensome. That's where I think > > Composer helps a lot - you can concentrate on your photography and leave the > > details of web development to Composer. To me, it's a bit like the rabbit > > and the hare: some people start out doing fancy stuff manually but soon give > > up, but if you keep it simple then you can concentrate on the content and > > it's easy to add new pages. With simple blank templates you can quickly put > > up a new page just replacing the template images with your new photographic > > images. > > > > Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash, and Merry > > Christmas/Hannukah/Eid/Kwaanza, etc... > > > > Richard. > > > > home page: www.richard-seaman.com > > > > --- original message --- > > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > After considerable knashing of teeth and whining to Shel about how hard > > this is, I have finally managed to construct the beginnings of a > > website. I still haven't figured out the thumbnail thing, so I have to > > apologize for a page of medium size jpegs, but at least it's a page :-). > > And I don't think these would be the photos I would choose to define my > > work, but, hey, they were hanging around on my hard drive. So with all > > those disclaimers, it's here > > http://home.earthlink.net/~pnstenquist/index.html > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > -- > Shel Belinkoff > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
