I'm just starting out to maintain the web site for the community band I'm in. I'm learning a lot of stuff - it is a pretty basic site, derived from an old one somewhere else, I guess. www.ihcb.org if interested - watch this site as I learn a few things - especially watch for a dropdown-flyout menu some day!!!
The site linked below seems pretty good - I recommend also www.w3schools.com for lots of tutorials.
I am being encouraged by a colleague here - a too-smart young punk !!! - to move to the modern way of doing web pages - separate style and content. Even the link below uses the old technique of using tables to do style - presentation. I've seen what that code is like - it can be a mess - the newer methods that use DIVs and SPANs and cascading style sheets and XHTML seem better - if you were to look at the code for our band site, you would see <font size=2>some text everywhere there is text - the content gets murky. Also, as is said, tables are for tabular data, not for organization of a page.
So here is a link to something using CSS and DIVs, etc., that looks quite complex -
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/style/sheets/layout/advanced/
Again, www.w3schools.com has good introductory stuff. And I just ran through this site last night - very impressive -
http://www.subcide.com/tutorials/csslayout/
And another site - where the gospel of XHTML and CSS is preached -
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/ - is an article on NOT using tables - the alistapart site has good stuff - one contributor - Erik Meyer - is recommended in a developerworks review - linked to in WDSC tutorials on CSS.
Oh - style sheets are loaded once, cached, so your web page runs faster when you use them, instead of embedding that stuff everywhere in the HTML code - easier to maintain, too. They say!
It seems that hardly any of the wysiwyg editors work in this new regime - WDSC uses tables - certainly MS' InterDev does, and probably FrontPage and DreamWeaver - my colleague encourages using a good editor like TextPad, UltraEdit, or EditPlus and use a browser like FireFox to test your work, then adjust. I love a couple addins to Firefox - FireBug is unbelievable for debugging JavaScript and all - then there is HTML Validator, and IE Tab, that gives you an Internet Explorer test inside of FireFox.
I'm just beginning - but I'm intrigued and moving forward, I hope.
HTH
Vern
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From: "Dave Boettcher" <DBoettch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Try this one for html:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html
hth,
Dave B
"Smith, Mike" 10/23/07 8:29 AM >>>
I am trying to run through a 'Do and Learn' tutorial on web page design.
I am on the latest 7.0.0.4. However when I do as asked and select 'Base
Faces support 7.0' I get a message that says I need JSTL 1.0 or newer.
Anyone know how resolve this?
Also, as a side, does anyone know of good HTML tutorials, that will walk
you through building(reasonably complex) webpages from the ground up?
Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.
midrange.com
