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Re: Web Page Software



Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
My daughter is about to contribute $200 to Microsoft for "Front Page". Until now I have had no interest in Web Page creation dont know beans about the subject. Is there a debian package? Where should I look for a good introduction to the subject?

Tom George



dear tom,

rather than 'point' you in a certain direction, i'll go with teahing you and your daughter HTML 101. ready?

1) get acquanted with nano...a really easy to use text mode editor - apt-get install nano. learn how to use nano in an xterm window.

2) make sure you have a browser handy - you can use netscape, mozilla, whatever - apt get install netscape

3) fire up nano - $nano -pw

4) type (or paste if you know how (see pasting with middle mouse button)) the following code:

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
This text is <b>bold</b><br>
This text is <i>italicized</i><br>
This text is <u>underlined</u><br>
This text is <font color="red">red</font>
</body>
</html>

5) hit CTRL+X (or CTRL+O to save but keep working on it) and save the document as index.html

6) fire up the web browser and have it open your newly created page....voila!!! make sure you remember where you saved it (ex. /home/tom)

congrats...you are a newborn HTML author  :)

learn about tags and their attributes

<br> is a tag that inserts a line break
anything that appears between <u> and </u> will be underlined...

there's a zillion web sites out there that will help you get acquainted with HTML. it's really not that hard. don't bother spending the loot for a program that 'does it for you'.

now learn something to go with it...something nice like PHP. :)

good luck!!!

-jeff

p.s. don't bother with those HTML programs like frontpage..they are evil, costly, and they do things behind your back...like put a whole bunch of extra useless code in your pages!!! don't do it!!! always learn how to code before you go and buy some yucky proggie!


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