I design shipsets

[Lord Kodos]

BTW whats a good program for resizing images? I need to fix my Azlokian spider necros... ^_^ thanks again for the set man!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

other people have said that you only need a text editer to edit html. i havn't made a website, though.
should this post go in the useless information thread?

[ May 09, 2003, 03:29: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[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 ]

[Ragnarok]

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

I like the name Machina. It makes me think of FFX. That is what they called Machines in that game. (Great game BTW ) It is indeed pronounced as you said just without so much emphasis on the "kee" part of it. It's more like Maw-ka-na.

As far as your HTML help. It has already been said but you can use just a normal text editor to make the site. I use Macromedia Dreamweaver for my websites, but I doubt you want to spend over $250 for a simple page.

I learned the basics of HTML, links, images, backgrounds, in roughly 5 hours. But I was a slow learner then. HTML is really easy to learn, and I'm sure you'll have no problem picking it up.

[dogscoff]

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)

Gah! No! Word produces horrible html!

The best way to learn html (the way I learned) is to find a few nice simple websites (my site is really basic - no complicated source code there- click the banner in my sig), right click on it and go to "view source". Compare the source to the site and you'll soon figure out how most of the simpler html tags work. Then you can start making your own simple html files in notebook and you're away.

Once you've got the hang of those, use google to find html tutorials for specific tags and ways of doing things. The web has about a zillion good, free html tutorials on it...

(BTW everyone, I could do more complex html on my site if I wanted to, I just choose not to for ease of maintenence )

[Hugh Manatee]

I did a lot of reading Last night about the actuall HTML tags and editing stuff, I can do this, now I just need to decide on a host. I'm leaning towards Angelfire, a lot of the SE4 fan sites seem to use that one, unless you got a better idea on which free one to use.

[ May 09, 2003, 16:59: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]

[Lord Kodos]

Machina is actually Latin for Machine. ^_^

So uhh anyone know a good Image resizer, or anyone already make a fixed Azlokians and can save me some time?

BTW: The Machina look very nice, but are you going to finish that Bubble Wizard shipset?

laters.

[Ed Kolis]

{insert satanic FrontPage cthulhubabble here - you know, "come to the dark side, buahahahassmsmmsmsgjgskjsjkgjksgort" and stuff like that}

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Gah! No! Word produces horrible html![/QB]

Well, yeah - it takes up far more space than it should, it tells anyone who looks at the source that Word was used, it does funny things that it doesn't tell you about, and it uses bad programming practices. I did call it "curious", didn't I? It is ok for someone who just wants to post a few pictures or link to a few files; perhaps with some text for those who don't want to put in the effort to learn HTML. It is definitely not for those who want to produce a quality web page.

[Fyron]

Word is the devil. Stay away from it for HTML purposes. Wordpad is the best way to make HTML. My web site has some relatively complicated stuff, all written in HTML. And, it is written in very good style, so it can be a nice example to learn HTML.