Eric,
I do all of our html scripting by hand, with a plain text editor. I
recommend it as a way to get to know html. As for learning how to do it,
just 'view source' at a site that you admire. Monkey see, monkey do.
I learned enough in 4 hours to get our first site up, from scratch.
Jim
> As part of our NEH and NYState Council on the Arts-funded site
> interpretation program, I promised a Web site, which I would like
> to start developing/prototyping myself. I have a nice zippy
> 486/33 machine (it *was* fast when I bought it!??) at home, and I
> use Netscape and a dial-up PPP for access.
>
> So what software are people using for developing Web sites? I
> would like to make this kind of a fun site, not necessarily long
> on graphics and bandwidth busting video, but with interesting
> layering and links. I'm particularly interested in incorporating
> hot maps (is that the right term for those clickable graphics?)
>
> The whole project is about landscape as windows into other ways
> of thinking about the natural world, in other cultures and other
> times, so I would like to use that metaphor for the web site
> itself.
>
> On the other hand, I've never dealt with HTML, and for that
> matter never "programmed" in anything more complex than R:Base
> database scripting language. Ideally, the HTML language would
> support all the latest extensions, though maybe I wouldn't really
> *need* flashing text, and it would be easy to go back and forth
> between scripting and display modes.
>
> I could pay money for it if I have to, but I'm curious about
> share and freeware like WebEdit and HotDog. Am I crazy to be
> thinking about doing this myself? I'm a diehard autodidact, but
> is this out of my league?
>
> Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks, and a belated Happy New Year to all of you (us?) for whom
> it is a new year.
>
> Eric Siegel
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