Genealogy, Social, Software

 

 

Off-Site Links :

The links given on these pages are based on my experience and, therefore, reflect my feelings over their usage. Others may disagree and indeed some do!

I have only given links to sites and tools which I use and which cost little or nothing. This may mean that one has to take more time to learn how to use them.

In the case of web design, for example, it is probably necessary to know more about "html" and cascading style sheets than is the case with more expensive programs.

 

 

PsPad

 

 

 

 

CEO

 

 

 

HTML-Kit

 

 

 

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Build a Web Site

Supplier Comments Price
Xara Webstyle The trial version enables one to easily make banners, navbars, separators, menus etc. The full version, Webstyle4, uses editable suites of web pages (used here) to construct a full site. Excellent facility for editing photos and the expansion of them. Links with Front Page and Dreamweaver. Trial: Free
Cost: $79 US
Web Dwarf V2 A WYSIWYG program. Transfer photos, text etc. onto the page and it converts it to html for transfer to your site. Easy to use and can transfer the site to your server. An introduction to Site Spinner. For Personal Use
Cost: Free
X Fonter 5.0 Select any font available and convert it to a banner in any colour(s), plain or 3D for transfer to your page. Again, very easy to use. Freeware
Cost: Free
PsPad Great for editing html and other languages (see also HTML-Kit). Allows muliple pages to be open at the same time (ideal for copy/paste), with batch search and replace. Display the page in its "browser" at different screen resolutions even with an external css. Links to Topstyle Lite for css editing. For Personal Use
Cost: Free
HTML-Kit Similar to PsPad but with a better html validator. I prefer PsPad for batch replace and copy/paste editing but for writing html pages HTML-Kit is preferable as it is more structured. Plug-ins available for batch replace etc. For Personal Use
Cost: Free
Topstyle Lite Basic css editor which tests the code and suitability for a range of browsers. It has a display panel to view changes. Links with PsPad to give a comprehensive editor. For Personal Use
Cost: Free
CSDiff CSDiff is a file-difference analysis tool for Windows. It is used to analyse changes which have been made between two revisions of the same file or folder. eg analysing program source files, HTML documents and MS-Word documents. Cost: Free
Mike Lin's Clipomatic Clipomatic is a clipboard designed to hold multiple copies. It has a permanent memory so that regular, standard, changes to web pages can be made effortlessly. Invaluable for changing html generated web pages to css. Cost: Free
Dave's Pages Learn the basics of css, html and Java Script on this site. Several examples given in an easy to learn fashion. Cost: Free
W3 Schools A comprehensive learning tool for many languages with numerous examples of the use of the codes. Gives uptodate status of the html tags and the browser versions in which Netscape and IE adopted them. Cost: Free

 

 

 

 

Web Page Construction :

There are a multitude of ways of constructing a web site from the semi-automatic using, say, Dreamweaver or Front Page to the more "hands on" which, although cheaper, may need a working knowledge of html or css codes.


I have concentrated on the latter as the codes are not difficult to learn and are of benefit when using the more sophisticated software.

 

For an initial look at how "css" works in conjunction with "html" W3 Starting with CSS is recommended. This shows how "css" and "html" link together to produce a basic web page.

 

From there Dave's Pages and W3 Schools build on this knowledge with further explanations and examples of their usage.

 

The software on this page is sufficient to enable the production of web pages from the basic idea to presentation on the internet. If finding a web server presents a problem then Yahoo offers a free service at Geocities and GEDCOMS can be uploaded to Tribalpages also free.

 

For many web servers it is necessary to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to load web pages onto them. Web CEO and FTP Commander provide free software for this purpose.

 

 

Webstyle4
 
Web Dwarf
 
Top Style

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
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