Re: [DL] Building a Deadlands site

[Thomas Mayfield <dragonboyblue@mindspring.com>]

>Okay.  Here's the thing.  I need some help from you web savvy Deadlanders
out 
>there.  I have admired your websites for long enough.  I am ready to make my 
>own contribution to the list of Deadlands web pages.   

>I am however HTML illiterate, though I am very capable of using a
computer.   
>I need some advice on what editors, how-to books, and places to set up 
>webpages. 

Well, there's two approaches you can use here.  One, you can learn HTML and
code your page yourself with a text editor.  Two, you can shell out for a
WYSIWYG editor and use the program to make it.  If you do so, I recommend
you get Dreamweaver; all of the other one's I've worked with are clunky and
hard to get exactly what you want.  

If you want to learn HTML, it isn't that hard to do.  A good source for
beginners' tutorials is at Webmonkey (http://www.webmonkey.com ).  Follow
their examples, and you'll be creating in no time.  Never pay money for a
book on HTML... it is not worth it for such a simple language.   You can
find everything you need online.  

As for webhosting, check out Webjump (http://www.webjump.com ).  They're
free, fast and reliable.  Only downside is the massive ad frame they smack
across the top of your site.  Just do what I did- write some frame-breaking
code onto your homepage, and *poof* adless free webhosting.  Check out my
pages (URLs in my sig line) for examples, and feel free to swipe my code.

Hope that helps ya.

-Evil Marshal Mayfield
======================
I brake for zombies
Hell's Burrow- http://hellsburrow.webjump.com/
Hell's Bunker- http://hellsbunker.webjump.com/