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RedRedWhine
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Initially Posted - 07/10/2006 : 08:28:20

Hello all.

I am looking for a little help in building a personal web page. Would like to post pictures from my sailing adventures as well as comments. I will link to my other hobies as well. I have seen some really nice personal pages here. Do you use a web builder sofware program or are you writing html yourself. Thanks

Don and Kim Young
Las Vegas Nv
http://web.me.com/bolter303/Our_World/Welcome.html

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Frank Hopper
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Pitcairn Island
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 09:16:06

I use a Macintosh so things like that just happen with virtually no effort. If you are on a PC then your millage may vary.

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 09:50:42

I've been very pleased with the ease and convenience of Netscape Composer 7.2.

The price is hard to beat -- it's free!

Netscape's WYSIWYG user interface is very intuitive, but also allows rapidly switching back and forth from WYSIWYG to source code to WYSIWYG but with HTML tags indicated by icons. The code it produces is fairly clean and compact for such a user friendly editor.

I particularly dislike Microsoft FrontPage as a website builder, and that's after taking a college level course in how to use it.

The code it produces is horribly bloated. The complexity and overhead it imposes may be required to maintain large internal web pages in a (Microsoft only) corporate environment using exclusively broadband connections. I don't consider it appropriate for a simple personal website out on the Internet.

-- Leon Sisson

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Ericson33
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 11:52:34

I would "blog it" Upload what photos you want, then write a story about the photo, I think that its a great way of keeping an online acount of what you do on the boat. NO HTML, and you can gain access to it anywhere. MY 2 Cents. Yahoo has a really nice one.

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 11:56:43

I use [url="http://www.webpage-maker.com/"]Web Page Maker[/url] Simple to use, Cheap, Not the best, but works for me. I Registered my domain with Go Daddy, and use the free space that comes with my bellsouth account to store my site.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 12:49:35

I use Microsoft FrontPage. Simple and easy to create basic web pages. A little disagreement with those above.

http://www.indiscipline.org

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mfasis
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 12:56:47

It sounds like a Blog is the way you should go. Here is an example:

http://www.mfasis.com/blog/

I use http://www.blogger.com/. Its free and very easy to use.

Good luck

Mark

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 19:20:13

Allmost like Leon, I use Mozilla browser (base supplier of Netscape) and use the built in composer/publisher because of its ease of browsing a page and editing it and shooting it right back to the web site all from the same program.

NVU is the stand alone composer and has some upgrades not found in the Mozilla version... but it is also a little more difficult to edit a page because the page has to be named rather than just clicking edit from the browser.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 20:06:11

IMHO Just don't use Front page or MS Word or any of the other office products to build a webpage, editing the code they generate is a major very loud groan!

Professionally, I write all my code in a text editor. I can probably type the code up for a page quicker than the click, select, typin, wysiwg programs. But then I've been at it a few years

Paul

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Happy D
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Response Posted - 07/10/2006 : 20:15:29

I use Netscape Composer and 1st Page. Netscape Composer is easy to use and great for getting started. After you get better at it, you can download eversoft 1st page and really go nuts. It's also free.
The thing that bugs me about Composer is that the html code is a mess. I have seen some code that was very originzed. I liked the looks of that. I try not to look at my code any more than I have to. It's like looking at the messy garage.
If you go to one of my pages and right click, then "view page source," you'll see what I mean about messy. But it works.

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RedRedWhine
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Response Posted - 07/11/2006 : 07:52:16

Thank you all for the advice. I will play around with a few of the programs and see what works for me. Thanks again.

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RedRedWhine
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Response Posted - 07/31/2006 : 11:26:55

Hello all,

Well I finally put together a blog site with photos and such. You can check it out at www.brakeman.multiply.com let me know what you think. There are some pictures of <i>Red Red Whine </i>there as well as a story that I wrote about my first sailboat a 16' Hobie Cat. Thanks again for all the help and advice.

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Justin
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Response Posted - 07/31/2006 : 11:45:40

Don and Kim,

That's a very nice blog you're starting along with some amazing photos. What kind of camera do you use?

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RedRedWhine
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Response Posted - 07/31/2006 : 12:31:44

Justin,

Thanks for the reply. I have a Canon Digital Rebel 350 8.2 Mega Pixel. I have had the camera for a while now and love it. Easy to use and takes great shots. I went with this camera because I can take astrophotraphy phots with it and use the dark substraction feature to remove the noise. I will have more picturs up later this wekk and will send you a note when I do. Thanks again.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 08/01/2006 : 05:12:57

I use Homestead.com . When I first used it many years ago, it was free and a very easy engine for creating websites with templates or starting from scratch. Also has animations, etc to make the website interesting. Then they started to charge for the website use if the website you built was more than say 3 pages long. I already have a number of websites I created, one of which has to do with ACL Knee Reconstruction which I went thru due to a basketball injury. That website I started to build about 6 or 7 years ago - went thru the ACL recovery over 7 yrs ago and knee has been fine all these years. The website is now over 50 pages long and I use it as a reference to posting on an ACL Knee Support Group Website.

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