My first website was generated by GED2HTML from a gedcom generated by Brothers Keeper. [ page is still up, much modified over the years ] Somewhere I had found an HTML "dictionary. I think there were only something like twenty-five or thirty tags back then. All pretty simple. I printed off the "dictionary" and put it in a binder that I could refer to it. I used Notepad as an editor at first. By looking at the HTML generated and referring to the dictionary I learned how web pages worked and was able to modify those pages to suit myself. It wasn't to long before I found my first HTML editor, HTMLed. That was great because it had the tags on "buttons" so I could click and insert tags without typing. I still had to manually ad any modifiers I wanted [ height, width, etc. ] The dictionary listed what modifiers were available for each tag. I'm not sure there was a WYSIWYG editor in those early days. I never had one. It was kind of learn HTML or else. Styles have been harder for me because I never found a simple "dictionary" like I had for HTML. I did find a program for Linux, sorry it doesn't work in Windows - I tried, called CSSed. It's a very simple CSS editor with click and add tags. It will offer modifiers if any are available [ settings for padding for instance ]. Problem is it's a bit behind the latest and greatest style elements. I don't think it will be updated in the future. Still it did help me learn some of the syntax. OK, that's my long and sad story. I believe that as i have grown older it has helped me to keep learning new things. It's funny that since I have been "retired" I seldom know what day it is. Just last evening we were driving past a local Baptist church and I wondered, out loud, what was going on on a Friday. Tracie quickly let me know it was Sunday, and won't let me forget my faux pas. I told her it was senility and I was sticking to that story. Don't know what day of the week it is but I can write a web page from scratch. *<]:oD On 07/13/2015 04:32 AM, Linda Haas Davenport wrote: > I used Word 97 to build my first web pages. It code was fairly clean > back then. Then I learned to tweak it and then I started writing code > by hand because it was faster than messing with tweaking/cleaning up > Word. CSS is harder to me. Maybe because I didn't have a page > generated for me to use as an example. The W3schools have great > examples, but they are just a example of how a snippet works. I also > spent time on the CSS tricks site because they showed more. I looked > at a lot of sites, but didn't find one that was close to what I want > to do. That's why I've spent so much time on my little newspaper > master page. Once I get the fundamentals to work I can add things as I > need them and when the page doesn't work I know I have only that one > thing to figure out. Also what I want in my CSS is really only the > stuff, like my SSI includes, that I (or whoever takes over my > websites) can easily change to change the look of the site without > having to change every blasted page. For the rest I'll use html. > > Thanks for your help Billie it's appreciated. > > Linda > > Linda Haas Davenport > my Home Page: http://www.lhaasdav.com > My Marion Co AR page: http://www.argenweb.net/marion/ > my Tulsa OK Page: http://www.tulsaokhistory.com > > -----Original Message----- From: Billie Walsh via > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 4:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Where does #content go in an html page? > > Sometimes I'll just look till I find something that looks like it might > be able to do what I want. Then I'll copy their example onto a page and > play with it. Sometimes it works out as I want and sometimes it doesn't. > Just reading their stuff doesn't really help me. It's when I have it and > am digging in and making changes to see what changes take place that I > really learn. That's how I first learned HTML and am now learning styles. > > > -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._