5th June 2012
I'm not an expert at HTML. I'm not even a mid-range coder - I'm strictly a beginner. I did once take a City and Guilds course in level 2 website design back in 2003/4, and even got a Distinction, but that hardly told me much at all. In particular, you need to take the level 3 part to start playing with CSS and Java, so I never touched those useful tools. However, it did give me the basics of HTML, and it means that I can look at a page of code and have at least a basic idea of what is going on. In particular, it means that I can look at my own website code and get rid of odd problems, and tighten stuff up a bit.Having done that little bit or training, I put up a website, mostly to enable me to host various pictures. It was literally done in forty-five minutes with Microsoft FrontPage, and then slowly accrued more pages over the next few years. But the limitations of the site were obvious right from the start. Mainly the lack of CSS meant formatting just about everything individually. Soi about a year ago I bought some more up-to-date books on CSS and Java with the intention of designing a better site, with proper and rigourous code. I even bought the domain name. Now all I have to do is populate everything.
So this section won't be a manual on how to do stuff (although there will probably be a fair bit if how not to), more a almost-blog on my adventures in trying to design and set up a website