rhandy

I am absolutely new to making a website. I have a informatinoal website in mind and would like to ask a few questions.

Let me say that I have just purchased and installed Frontpage 2003 and I have about 6 books, some on Frontpage and some on website design. They are all helpful but I notice some differences in opinion... so.....

I would like to create a home page with a border on top. (Sorry for the ignorance, but I presume that "border" is the name given to describe the horizontal band that one sees on the top of almost all homepages or other web pages, such as this page that says Webmaster-talk in the upper left hand cornder and teh blue/aquamarine band that goes to the left containing imbedded links.) This border will contain the name of the site and a horizontal row of links to other pages in the website. I would also like a border on the left with other links to other pages on the sites and the main space in the middle of the page will be for up-to-date information, that will be added to every weeks (or more often).

I just need to know where to get started.

Do I use tables or Cascading Style Sheets? One of my books says that CSS cannot be read by Netscape, but don't worry, because no one uses Netscape anymore. (My wife does!) Another books says that CSS is read by all browsers, so use CSS.

I guess I should start with a template. Should I use a template that comes with Frontpage, or should I purchase a CD with hundreds (?) of templates to choose from?

Can I design the appearance of the layout before I put in any content? Or... where to I start first?

fredgsanford

How's it comin' there Rhandy?
I use frontpage. I can't answer all of your questions here because I am not looking at your website, but feel free to PM me if you run in to any trouble with Frontpage, I may be able to point you in the right direction & get your page published for you.

The best thing to do is keep reading your Frontpage help manual that is installed on the software. It really helps. It takes a while to master any piece of software as they all can do so much. It takes time, but you will get it.

cristobal

Most of the time, people have a template first before they plug in the content.
Because if you plug in the content without any layout, you will find yourself editing the whole design all over again when you have your site out.

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