h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Anyone reccomend something good, that can make simple but good looking webpages?

All you need is your brain and imagination. If you use them, even Front Page Express (as delivered for free with any Microsoft product) does a good job.

Y. (Do I get a prize for the most smart-pantish answer?)

The geek's answer is that you should learn XHTML, which is similar to GuideML, and not too difficult, and a useful skill that looks good in your credentials. See, for example http://www.w3schools.com/

http://www.nvu.com is the home of Nvu - a free and WYSIWYG website creation program that is a perfectly legal rip-off of the Composer component of http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ (the Mozilla Internet suite).

There are some online tools, like with Freewebs, I think. Even some ISPs provide a website-making tool for free. Purists scoff at such things, but for simplicity you can't beat it.

In MS office, Word or Publisher will do the job.

Notepad?

B

When you get the hang of it Dreamweaver is a really good tool but the MOST important factor is a good design sense and imagination.

"the MOST important factor is a good design sense and imagination"

That's two important factors isn't it?

In this particular case I think price is a more important factor, since Dreamweaver is quite expensive.

Notepad is all I've ever used.

(Except for Google PageCreator, but I can't find any way of handcoding pages there. But I created a page simply for the fun of it, and it has nothing on it, really.)

We were taught basic HTML in college. I'd like to learn XHTML.

I'm quite proud of the fact that, though we'd been told nothing about divorcing style and content, my first thought when I saw a tag was, That looks a bit iffy.

TRiG.

I am just gonna go ahead and abuse this thread for some technical help...

How do you create a frame in html? Not a frame in the sense of the frameset kind of thing, but a frame around, say, a picture. Or like a box. In fact, what I am looking for should look like the box into which I am typing this right now.

See, what I can think of is to put the picture into a single-cell table, using a border for the table. However, the table borders look, well, ugly. What I want is a simple thin line to go around the picture.

Any ideas how to do that?

Y.

your words or image go here

anything other than zero will create a visible border, a value of 10 will be rather heavy


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For those who like Notepad, I can recommend SCiTE - free from http://www.scintilla.org/ (there are versions for both Windoze and Linux)

It's like Notepad on steroids - it 'recognises' a whole host of languages, incl HTML, and although it - like Notepad - won't fix any errors it does 'colour code' your tags... so it's really easy to see where you've goofed

And... when working with a file that's been saved with a .html , if you hit the F.5 key, it loads in your browser

And... you can get it to show 'line numbers', so when (not if ) you run your code through http://validator.w3.org/ or http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/ you can quickly find the bugs you missed

Yelbakk - in XHTML you would need to add this to the CSS:

#img {
border: 1px solid #000;
}

/* #000 is where you put the hexadecimal colour code */

I've downloaded that, and shall examine it tomorrow.

Good night.

TRiG.