Plan B Website

[realityhack]

You wait till NickFitz sees that HTML! He'll rip you to bits.

Meh. I'm trying to keep things simple, prawny. NF could rip anyone's markup to bits.

I'm more concerned with my grammar.

[cojak]

No-one's mentioned Nvu yet. I've used earlier versions and I thought it was very good.

And it's free...

(But I couldn't my CSS to work - my fault, not Nvu's, so had to give up and go for tiddlywiki instead... )

[Pondlife]

Joomla get my vote.

I'm about as non-techy as it gets and even I could get it working.

[TimberWolf]

Do you lot still say HTML rather than XHTML?

[DimPrawn]

Do you lot still say HTML rather than XHTML?

Indeed. Surely any new website is going to be XHTML with all visual representation using CSS?

No bold, emphasis, italic, font tags, etc.

[realityhack]

We know what the latest and greatest standards are, but for the purposes of teaching you should start from the very basics, and I still keep emphases inline as they make more sense if it's semantic, not purely visual. The same reason headers and paras should be inline and not styled.

To clarify - I'm not saying you shouldn't style headers etc aesthetically, I'm saying they should be rendered as such in the markup.

[cojak]

We know what the latest and greatest standards are, but for the purposes of teaching you should start from the very basics, and I still keep emphases inline as they make more sense if it's semantic, not purely visual. The same reason headers and paras should be inline and not styled.

If only I'd known that before trying to grapple with CSS...

[thelace]

If only I knew what you were all talking about

So using the website builders prvided by Easily and 1&1 are a no-no then?

What about service providers? Any recommendations?

[cojak]

Honestly lace, it isn't that big a deal.

Go into Nvu/Joomla, look at some of the Nvu/Joomla tutorials on youtube and away you go!

Don't be so defeated so soon into the project, where's your sense of adventure, man?

[dinker]

NVU is a dead project.