Resources


Introduction
This section covers the making of the website and the resources that I have found on the web to get me started with this task. I find that most of it was quite easy to find and accessible to people to want to start working with websites. I will share with you links to some of the ressource I found particularly useful.


Tutorials
These websites provide Tutotial on how to get started with a website. There are some basic as well as more advanced lessons
  • KanDu.dk
    This is a Danish website which gave me some good initial ideas. It is quite simple and well suitable for the first few steps and plenty of examples. One of the good features is that you can see the HTML coding and make changes in the example (left side9 to see the results on the right side. Examples include formatting, links, frames, tables, forms and picture handling. The site also has a section on CSS (managing styles) on the left hand menu list.


  • Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML
    He is apparently one of the gurus of the World Wide Web Consortium one of the main developers of technologies for the web. His introduction includes 1) Getting Started, 2) Advanced HTML and 3) Adding a touch of style (CSS). The links for the three different pages are found at the top of the pages.


  • HTML Center's Tutorials
    This website also has a lot of interesting information including a pretty good HTML tutorial. Sections are Basic HTML (basic and advanced), frames, embedding, forms, lists and tables. Some irritating sponsor links though...

References
References are a list of HTML elements available and the tags and attributes associated with all these elements. Sometimes you have a certain idea but cannot make it work, then it is good to check up with this list and see what you can do to make it work as desired.
  • Web Design Groups HTML 4.0 Reference
    Apart from some introduction, the site lists all the elements either in alphabetical order or by organisational order.


  • Web Design Groups CSS Reference
    Cascading Style Sheets is a relatively new improvement for managing styles on a webpage, which with CSS can be done "centrally" rather than having to put tags on each individual elements.The "Style" element is also quite powerful.


Software
You may need or consider additional software to administer your website. The ones that I have found are basically free to download, which is a plus.

  • Smart FTP
    You would need a piece of software to upload the web pages you have created on your computer to your host site. This is normally done through an FTP link. This program allows you to setup the address, username and password which is used everytime you connect to your host. In addition it keep two windows open, one for your computer folder containing the pages and one on your host, so that you easily can drag and drop amended files or transfer new ones.


  • Stone's WebWriter 4
    Now this is a pretty good program. You can of course choose to write all your HTML is Notepad, or you can use a software where you layout your page without really knowing what is going on. WebWrite is actually a Danish software which is free if you register as a private individual. It is designed for the "profession or the beginner who wants full control and insight". I have found it very useful and I am now using this application for all editing of the Frantzen Family Website.