how did you learn to make websites?

[Chooco]

just how did you learn and possibly how long did it take

[CERuppel]

Me, I learned from watching my wife and reading some of the stuff she and her freinds would E-mail back and forth.

[angelcat]

It has been at least 3 or more years, and I am still learning new things each and every day.............

[elroy]

I started up Netscapes' Composer, brought up a template and started making a page.

[vass0922]

hhaha
I started out using Netscape composer ... Well I wanted to put my resume up on my webpage... I already had it in word so I figured hey I'll just save it as html
Well ... a couple days later of cleaning up that crap code word 97 created I was learning HTML
(it was like 1999 so don't go saying you should of used 2000 LOL)

[Chooco]

what is this frontpage everybody talks about, i have no idea what it is.......

i use Netscape Composer to make it then 1st Page 2001 to edit it

[VERT]

Books and manuals, a lot of playing around and advise and tips from a friend

[OuTpaTienT]

I recommend using NOTEPAD to make your web pages. It's not that hard, and if you use a simple text editor to build your pages then you'll get a much better grasp of how it all fits together and works.

My site is nothing to get excited over but when you take into account that was my very first attempt at building web pages I think I did alright. I haven't really had a need to change the original design over the years because it came out looking how I wanted it to.

[NDC]

I started out just fooling around. Although I'm not a web designer, being a graphic designer was a big help in learning...


I noticed it's too time consuming making sites with just a notepad. I start the layout using adobe Photoshop and making each detailed layer on a layer of its own. After that I use the guide line to help me determine the exact size for each frame, link button positions, etc. After I'm done with the basic layout, I use Adobe GoLive 4 and 5 which is a WYSIWYG interface web editing application. Of course using a text editor and manually typing in the HTML codes would be benficial in learning the language. However, it's too time consuming to make a seamless page when you're creating a site using tables or frames. WYSIWYG applications are known to generate unecessary (junk) HTML codes. However, this can easily be extracted by manually removing them after you've created the page using any text editor or code editors that are intergrated into the WYSIWYG applications. There are more and more professional web designers nowadays that use WYSIWYG interface programs such as Adobe Go Live, DreamWeaver Dev, Namo, etc. Pro's making entire sites manually coding using text editors is of the past... Why waste the time when you can pop open the intergrated text editor to remove junk later, include Java, PHP, ASP, etc.. Another benefit is that you'll actually learn HTML using WYSIWYG interface programs since you can click and select the object and click on the source page and see the actual source that's generating this image layout or action...

But of course, the appearance of the site will depend on the images you use. No matter what method you use to design a site, notepad or application, if the source image isn't properly prepared for the final layout, it can look unattractive....


Here is a site that I'm currently working on for a friend. I'm still in the process of making adjustments to the layout. I took a different approach on this site design. rather than using the "blocky Frontpage design look", I went for a rounder approach. Although you will see the site to appear as no frames, it has three of them and the images look seamless. Something that takes time to do using a text editors on detailed design layouts as this one...This site was created for viewers with monitor resolutions of 1024x768 an above because of the plugin application that will be used for the site. And besides, with a little exaggeration, 99.9% of the people out here in Korea use at least 1024 x 768...

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Here you will see what the page design and source page looks like on Adobe GL5:

[Agent_Embryo]

Started out in Frontpage 98, learned HTML and Dreamweaver through a course in my Multimedia producing education. Been learning ever since...