Great Opening Page

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

I just arrived here today. I hopefully want to build my own website one day. (It might not be that far off...), but for now I am experimenting with various pages and when I think of the kind of opening page that was designed for the official George Harrison site, I really wonder what sort of code was used to do this. I mean the particulars. How would I go about building something similar to this ? (I am a beginner at html, but willing to learn.)

George Harrison

Sincerely,
Eric John Sawyer

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:06 am

Start on this site, learning HTML. I would suggest you take a look at some WYSIWYG editors - like Microsoft Expression Web. Microsoft offers a free trial download which will help you as well.

Chances are you will use tables to help layout your website until you get the hang of it and then you can start learning CSS. And there is one more HTML Tutorial as well.

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Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Yes, I remember seeing this site once. It seems like a really good place to start.

Thanks for the really GREAT ideas, I plan to learn as much as I can here, and the Microsoft Trial product sounds interesting.

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Corey,

This is my opening page: AERYCKSMUSIC

I am going to start applying some of the html 'know how', from the page you linked on a seperate page and see if I can come up with something more exciting.

This is the link to the EXPERIMENTAL PAGE

So far I have:

1. A link to my homepage
2. The words 'This is an experimental page' (3x)
3. A slightly modified drop down menu...

I just wanted to diarize this so as to make sure I actually do something.

Peace
Wink

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:57 am

If you need help or would like someone to review your code, you can use use the code button to post your code.

It is a lot easier to view your original code than try to review it with the other code that geocities inserts

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Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Yes, that makes sense. I have actually attempted to do most of the code myself, but there are some things like a player from Soundclick as well some add ons from Geocities, the object though is to attempt to build something better on what I have called my experimental page. Starting from scratch and building.

This is the existing code

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

The object is to build something that looks kewl...I was going through the tutorial you referenced and I remember it. I went through quite a bit of it...and stopped at HTML Attributes - I guess my needs were not as much as they are now. I am hoping to build something that really looks more like the George Harrison site...I guess I will need to read on. I am sorry that the code I sent is so mixed up, but it is what I have at the moment...Some is from Geocities, and the other is from Soundclick...I am just interested in getting the homepage right first, hopefully then I will be able to improve the other pages, time constraints allowing.

Rolling Eyes

Peace,
Eric John Sawyer
http://www.myspace.com/ericsawyer4jesus

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:09 pm

Have you downloaded Expression Web? They have a 60-day free trial and Expression Web 2.0 Beta - it would probably help you a lot with the CSS / HTML.

That's actually where I am headed for a week - to Seattle to meet the product managers for Expression Web.

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Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:20 pm

Also make sure you use the proper code for your DTD:

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Thanks Corey.
You have given me quite a bit to chew on.
The only reason I am centering it, is because I have no idea how to split things up. I would love to be able to have two or three separate 'tables' (I think that is the right word.)

I will have a good look at the 60 day trial and Expression Web 2.0 Beta . I hope you enjoy your week in Seatle.

I guess I will hold off changing anything as of yet and rather experiment on the experimental page..

I don't really understand what you mean about fonts, but I have wondered how I might change both fonts and colours to the writing.

Peace,
Eric.

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Any thoughts about the usefulness of this code ?

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Well, I decided to take the plunge and got myself some free webpages to experiment with.

I created an index.html page
and left & right .html pages

I went to the index.html file and delected the existing code, and replaced it with the code above.
(in my last post, relative to the left & right frames.)

Seeing as I have never done this before it was a quite fun indeed.

This is how it looks, (watch out for the pop ups)
-While I am using free pages, I have to put up with advertisements.

http://www.apologetics.freewebpages.org/

I am a little puzzled as to what I should do next ?

....small steps...

Wink

Eric John Sawyer
http://apologetics.freewebpages.org

razorchris · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 2 Location: philippines

hope me 2

razorchris · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 2 Location: philippines

hope my site recieves some suggestions so i will make some changes. thanks http://razorchris.wen.ru

Eric John Sawyer · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 24 Location: United Kingdom

Hi there razorchris,

Corey Bryant gave me some really good ideas in his first reply: