Building A Webpage

[JimBeam]

<p>Does anybody have an opinion on the best way to self teach yourself on how to build a webpage.</p><p>What program to use ( Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc ... ), what book/series to use ?</p><p>Not looking to do anything really indepth but not just a plain page w/out interaction.</p>

[empulse]

<p>i use dreamweaver.&nbsp; thats how i learned, because you can work graphically (i used to do 2D advert) so i would design images in photoshop and drop them into a blank page in dreamweaver.&nbsp; then you can see the properties for each image and make certain items linked, or rollover or whatever.&nbsp; Thats the simple part, you can then click(highlight) an image or text and switch to code view to see what it looks like in html.</p><p>I have learned flash in a similar fashion.&nbsp; But i still suck at it, and I am teaching myself C#/C++, written a few&nbsp;useless programs and have decided to go back to school for computer programming this spring (@ 31 its scary.)</p><p>but try dreamweaver. thats my opinion. if you learn by doing, then you might pick some stuff up, but you will definetly have questions..</p>

[JimBeam]

<p>So you're not sure how good Frontpage is ?</p><p>Most Microsoft stuff is usually fairly user friendly so I was wondering if that might be better.</p><p>How much does it cost to get a full version of DreamWeaver ( I know you can prob get it illegally for free ) ?</p><p>I guess my confusion is on whats the difference between HTML, XML, etc ... when building&nbsp;a page.</p>

[SatCam]

Do not use Frontpage if you value everything that is good in this world.

<a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/">Learn HTML</a>... it should take less than a day

[empulse]

<p>Now that Dreamweaver is owned by Adobe, FrontPage should become history.&nbsp; And yes i would say you could definetly find it on one of those torrent or P2P listings. If you do, and say hypothetically i did that, once i found the program useful, and actually can't do without it, i went and bought it. </p><p>want to learn to insert video into your webpage, using the exact same script/flash as YouTube.</p><p>check out this site:</p><p><a href="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player">http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player</a></p><p>it has an mp3 player for your site also.&nbsp; smart mofo.</p><p>And an awesome MP3/Audio player for your website, or it can be embedded in your forum posts.</p><p><a href="http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/">http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>all have README files (open in wordpad if they have a funky/or no extension) and they are very easy to follow.</p><p>I also have over a 1000 web templates if you are interested, i tend to learn by reversing something, seeing how it functions and then adapting it to suit my own needs.</p>

[Don Stugots]

<p>pick up webpage building for dummies.</p>

[empulse]

Stugots.&nbsp; everytime i read one of your posts, and then try to recall what you just said.&nbsp; all i come up with is tits. something tells me your a boob-man.&nbsp;

[JustJon]

<p>I happen to like the Peach Pit Press books for learning things.&nbsp; I'd pick up their basic html book.&nbsp; I happen to like dreamweaver, but I'd say start by using notepad and really learn the way html works first.</p><p>And don't use frontpage.&nbsp; ever.&nbsp; just adds extraneous code and mucks up your page.&nbsp;</p>

[SilentSpic]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I happen to like the Peach Pit Press books for learning things.&nbsp; I'd pick up their basic html book.&nbsp; I happen to like dreamweaver, but I'd say start by using notepad and really learn the way html works first.</p><p>And don't use frontpage.&nbsp; ever.&nbsp; just adds extraneous code and mucks up your page.&nbsp;</p><p>Like JJ said, us note pad.&nbsp; This site taught me the basic</p><p>&nbsp;</p><a href="http://www.draac.com/" target="_self">http://www.draac.com/</a>

[JustJon]

Oh, and webmonkey.com has great tutorials too<br />