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I made this site to prove to my friends that it's
entirely possible and reccomended to code an excellent webpage entirely in
notepad. This was my first crack at totally designing a site from the
ground-up with simply HTML and no graphical editor or template to help me.
If you have any input, click and scream to
Code vs. Design To make a webpage and have total control over all the
diverse elements one can utilize, you need to code it yourself. To code, you
obviously you need to know HTML. To do that, I reccomend you go to
GettingStarted.net. Once
you know how to code, you can graduate to learning how to design. Once you know
the main tags as presented at GettingStarted.net, you should be ready to think
about what you want to create. Draw it out in your head or on paper, and consider
how you will get there. That is design. To a certain extent, coding and
design are inextricable, yet you must first master one before you can really
start to appreciate the other. An excellent design resource is
Zeldman.com. This site leads you on to several valuable sources and
insights for pro or novice. However, you should know what YOU are going to code.
Go to other websites to analyze their design and view their source. And please,
for everyone's sake, use a legible font and font color. Advanced Coding and Effects If you want to go beyond HTML to add spice to your website, consider learning javascript and/or DHTML (think of them as the same thing). If you want to take the easy path, simply go to Dynamic Drive and check out the wide variety of effects they can give you. Here's a the only scriptlet I've written: click here to get two simple scripts that deframe a framed site and reframe a direct-linked page. Software One can't write without the proper tools. There are many editors, but I have learned to like the "Microsoft Development Environment." It comes with Microsoft Office, and I believe it isn't installed by default. If you have it, it will at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\IDE\IDE98\MSE.EXE or something like that. And of course, there's notepad, which works just fine. Dreamweaver is a great HTML editor (even WYSIWYG!), and I currently use it. For image work, I can highly reccomend Photoshop, but don't forget that you have paint for the basics. Common (D)HTML Issues There were some stumbling blocks for me while learning HTML, and there are some while I have a renewed interest in DHTML. However, I will publish them as I think of them.
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11.07.02 Added Faye. Multiple resolutions available, see below. Have a portfolio to do, yay. *groan*. However, got 49 on history test (A+). Wait, I always get A+s on the history tests. Oh well. I tried to decipher the cubic equation, but had to pull my head out after about halfway through. Why can't they just stick it in a simple x=(insert long complex equation here) format? I also, on my own, figured out that cos(pi/5)=(sqrt(5)+1)/4. I should probably design a framed version of this site for those browsers that don't support HTC (NS, Mozilla, probably Opera). This thought came to me because I finally found an example of a website that properly uses frames. Suprising, I know. Hmm... A Day In The Life of A Nerd. 11.03.02 Added Lightburst. Yes, I have been using photoshop quite a bit lately. 11.02.02 Added Starburst One. 11.01.02 Added Intrinsic. 10.25.02 Added Jess's site, rearranged the Explosion background stuff, and revised my CSS a little. To toggle viewing some less recent news, click here
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