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Well there are so many things possible with CSS that just aren't possible without it. For instance, suppose you had a site with 10 pages, and you wanted to change the header color and font styles for all 10 pages. You'd need to go into each page and make the changes. With CSS you'd make one change to one remote file to affect em all.
I use FrontPage and have been using it on my site for a few years now.
So its basically like a style template that all the related pages refer to if Im reading you correctly?
I checked my computer and it doesn't have Frontpage, so I will have to see if I can get it. Or something similar. I still have my copy of Dreamweaver if I can find it that is. It's probably a bit outdated though come to think of it.
Back to work now. Will check back later for more instructions....eh, Joe. ;)
Well it can be that, if you use it as a remote style sheet and link all the pages to it. But you can also embed it in a single page and also inside a single HTML tag
I use notepad and photoshop CS2. I programmed my pride and joy completely by hand. This gives me more control over how the code is layed out and helps search engines navigate my pages more effectively.
Frontpage is nice if you just want to include interactive features/forms and don't want to learn ASP or ASP.NET. But the code can get bloated, and usually doesn't validate. The Macromedia stuff is nice for flashy, splashy pages, but can be difficult to get used to using and ill-suited to low-bandwidth users.
CSS is awesome. ZenGarden gives an example of what you can do with external CSS. If you wanted to draw your webpage like someone else's page, you can link your page to their external CSS file. Of course, that's assuming your XHTML formatting is done the same way. CSS lets you layout content specific to the media/format you're using. So you can use 14pt font for the screen, and 10pt font for print. You can also format your data for use in non-visual browsers or for portable devices like cellphones. All these formats would use the same XHTML but different CSS. In addition to external CSS, there is internal (like JPnyc's example) and inline (which bears some similarity to HTML 4.0 in it's application). Don't forget, users can specify a local CSS file on their machine to change the way pages display (for example to increase readability of small type).
I could type for way too long, but you can probably find 99% of your answers at these must-read free websites for using XHTML and CSS:
www.w3.org - The official XHTML & CSS standards
www.w3schools.com
www.alistapart.com
In addition, there are some GREAT javascript and IFrame tools at www.dynamicdrive.com
I couldn't get the thing to load. Is it normally slow?
Which thing?
Your page. Just now it loaded in half a sec though, so it must've been some momentary glitch.
I know this thread is almost a year old now, but I'm resurrecting it anyway. I need help here as I've now gotten a copy of FP (I thought I did) and I found my original domain name is still available. I still have to find a webhosting site and if anyone has an idea about that I would appreciate help on this part. I think I used my isp before as I got 5mb free, which of course wasn't for businesses, and that is the main object on this new one. A place to upload my saleable photographs would be nice. Just to clarify, I don't want to use webhosting like those offered at yahoo, etc.
EDIT: I thought I had FP but looking under program files, I see a folder that says it's on my computer but opening that folder only shows me another folder entitled Version 3.0, and under that folder is another entitled "Bin". What's that mean? I do have FrontPage or I don't have FrontPage?
1st Page 2000 does a nice job, and you can't beat the price ;)
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Thanks zipulrich. I have heard of 1st Page 2000 before but on thinking this morning, couldn't remember what it was called. I'll give it a whorl.
There a freeware web page designer I cant think of the name at the moment but if I get a chance I`ll look it up unless someone else pipes in with the answer.
Front Page should be on your office CD if you have it to hand though some hosts dont support its extensions so you will have to check.
After looking at 1st front page 2000, it's now up to 2006 and it's not wizzywig, which is what I want. I don't code very well at all, so I need one that allows me to just type what I want and it codes it for me. Though I have been able in the past to edit HTML coding when I find something wrong on the wizzywig part, I'll probably never go completely HTML coding to build a site.
10, I found CoffeeCup also and was looking at that one but I haven't figured out if it's wizzywig and if it's free.
I have in the past also used Adobe's PageMill but I'm not sure that will even run on XP Pro as I bought it when I had win98FE. And I still have DreamWeaver whatever version it was in 2000.
Any other input about webhosting sites would help too.
I think this may be what I was refering to: AceHTML Freeware
Interface
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Integrated viewer
International alphabet support
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HTML lists creation/editing
Image maps creation
Font definitions
HTML Manager dockable to the Tools window
Hypertext link insertion
Images insertion
Paste-as-HTML feature
RTF files importation
Quality Assurance
Spelling checker (Microsoft Word required)
HTML Syntax Checker
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Library of 175 JavaScripts and DHTML scripts
Custom buttons
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JavaScript manager dockable to the Tools window
Code templates
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File Manager
Bookmark management
Save HTML page as template
Code highlighting
Upload files via FTP (AceFTP required)
Design and Styles
Access to more than 40,000 graphics via GOgraph
Style Sheet Editor
Old tutorial but it may be worth a read