[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
I bought a couple of newbie books on HTML and I want to maybe set up my own website, nothing to fancy just a few pics of what I'm working on and a couple of links to the zip files here. What kind of program do I need to actually edit and design a website?

The minimum is a text editor to make the web page (any text editor will do) and a web browser to view it (again, any old browser will work). However, if you want to build a complex website, you may want to hunt up a utility somewhere. Oddly, Microsoft Word has an option to make a web page out of a document (File-Save as-Select HTML from the drop-down box) if you just want to post a few pictures, some text, and a few links.

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
Do I ned some special compiler or editor or something? Also What's a good free host, I was thiking Geocities, but if you got a better Idea please let me know.

You could do what David E. Gervais appears to do - upload the HTML to the forums and link to them in your signiture. The Advantages: Size limit is per file only, ~ 30 MB; No advertising by the host; No host fees. Disadavantages: cannot edit a file once it is posted, can only upload a new one; the filenames are controlled by the Bulitin board, and are set to arbitrary numbers (so you must upload all of your pictures and other files to the forums before you write the web page, which also means you will need to use a text editor and make the HTML by hand); must have the extesion be .htm (as opposed to .html - not a big liability at all).

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:


And I'm going to call the below "mechanical" shipset the "Machina" (I think that's pronounced like Maw-kee-na.) Acording to this here dictionary I'm holding "Machinations" are an evil scheme or plot, that sounds cool, plus I really like the Last Smashing Pumpkins Album

[ May 09, 2003, 03:56: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]