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Topic: How to build a website?
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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted July 24, 2007 05:19 AM
Hi,
when you can live with a webaddress like "members.somecompany.com/memberpages/~yourname/" and with ads floating around, you can get away for free (don't be fooled buy the prices - just click onto "free"! ![[Wink]](wink.gif) ) :
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
etc. pp., more can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_web_hosting_service
There are several tools to create webpages. Some of them are free, too. Sometimes you can found them listed on those free webspaces. I'll list some more here nevertheless:
http://www.mozilla.org/editor/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quanta/
http://www.nvu.com/index.php
http://www.openwebsuite.org/
You can also use OpenOffice, Word, ... to create html-pages.
HTML-Editors in the wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_editor
Hope this helps,
Jörg
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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted July 25, 2007 04:56 AM
Hi,
a) AFAIK all free webspaces allow at least to upload and use smaller images (JPEG, GIF or PNG up to 500kB size) as background, buttons, images, ... . Depending on the webspace-provider you might even have no size-limitation for images. But it's better to check that before choosing a provider, e.g. when you plan to put some high-res scans/photos onto your webpage.
b) Don't rely on fonts. You can use them in HTML, but in most cases this doesn't work because "Times New Roman" is called "Times Roman", "URW Roman" or whatever on another computer. (Hence better Webeditor-Software automatically use a "font-family"-statement instead, e.g. "'Times New Roman',Times,serif".) Nevertheless all better browsers allow the user to ignore all font-statements from the html-document and use a user-defined font instead. And there are still several browsers out there that'll always ignore the fonts used by the html-document, e.g. Lynx or the browsers in cell phones, "internet-TVs", ... . In other words: When your webpage only looks good with e.g. the font "Weiss Gotnitials", there's a high chance that the page might look unreadable for everyone else.
Jörg (or Joerg for those without an ö on the keyboard )
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