My ISP gives me 10Mb of webspace, I would like to just put a few pictures up and maybe some email addresses. Everyone says to buy Dreamweaver or Frontpage, but isn't there a way to create the file in IE and save it as a .htm and upload that? Or maybe even in Word? In Word 2003 when you go to new document it asks you what type, and one of the options is webpage.

I'm really, really in uncharted area for me and appreciate the help

NeedKarma

Here is a free web editor that you can try: http://www.nvu.com/
You'll need the ftp info form your ISP to upload your web pages to your personal space there. Most ISPs have a help site that offer some details in how to do this.

Good luck!

ScottGem

For what you are talking about even using Word is viable. You are stalking some very simple pages.

What I would recommend is learning HTML. It is not hard and will allow you to create your pages using nothing more than Notepad.

klmgb

Downloaded Nvu, pretty simple. -- Thanks
Created the page using that and MSWord, both fairly easy. It seems though that the hard part is figuring out how to upload to the ISP server. Thats going to be the trick.

I'm a pretty smart guy, and maybe its because I'm new to this, but HTML isn't THAT easy. Gotta get the syntax exactly right or nothing works. Found a couple of sites with Webpage/HTML tutorials and am using that as I go along.
Thanks for the help

ScottGem

Your ISP should give you instruxtions on how to do that. Generally you use FTP. But many IPSs provide an easier interface to it.

Basic HTML IS simple. Is just a formatting language and more formatting is done with paired tags.

klmgb

Alright, heres another question, when I create the page and I insert a .jpg, I'm not actually inserting the .jpg, I'm putting in a location of the actual picture, so when I upload this to my ISP's server am I gonna have to upload the webpage and all the pictures and redo the code for the new location?

I understand the tags and most of the procees, the hard part if figuring what tag does what, when/where to put in the attribute, how to tell it where the jpg is (that took me a while to figure out)

Hey, but I'm trying and I really appreciate the help

NeedKarma

Make a folder that is a storage area for your images, reference that location when you insert a picture in your web page. When you upload your site you upload the web pages and the folders.

ScottGem

A decent HTML book will detail all this for you. Generally you would set the dite up similarly to your local drive. Pages in the main folder, images in a subfolder, other aspects may require their own folders. This allows you to use relative addressing so it doesn't matter where the files are located. For example:

<A HREF="\images\myimg.jpg"></A>

Will refer to the file myimage.jpg in an images folder of the current forlder. The images folder could be on a web server on on a local hadrddrive.

klmgb

I have found these sites, they've helped

1. http://www.pagetutor.com/
2. http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp (Recommended from another site
Also, for S&G's found a couple of validators. I imagine they will make sure I'm close (as always, no guaratees). Can a anyone one recommend a good book?

I'm starting to get real interested in this.

Thanks

LTheobald

Well whenever you have questions, post them here - we will help you out.

As for books, well for a beginner, I always find you can't go wrong with the "For Dummies" books - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...815402-6090224

The "Visual QuickStart/Project" books also tend to be quite good if you like to learn by doing (which is often best for something like this):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...815402-6090224



Also here are some other HTML sites I recommend for tutorials:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com
http://www.lissaexplains.com/html.shtml

OK, so the last one is for kids but that to me that just says it's written in a language that anyone can understand - so that's a good thing.