Posted by dorayme on 02/08/07 00:28

In article <d75b4$45ca47c1$40cba7a1$9985@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> > Judgements of what is easy are invariably due to hindsight,
> > something OP has not got.
> >
>
> I sorry, basic HTML is just not that difficult. Doing elaborate styling
> and effects is another matter. But most little personal sites that folks
> bang out with these junk WYSIWYG editors is
>
> picture
> text
>


What is simple or not is best understood in relation to
background conditions. You would be surprised how easily stuck
some folks can get over server issues, paths, url endings. The
html bits are simple enough for includes, setting the whole thing
up and seeing it working without a good guiding hand can be a
little tricky because one so easily comes across forks the
branches of which are not obviously decidable given the naive
background of the poor mug that has to do the choosing.

I do it this way:

1. Curse the poor schmuck in spite of his free tutorial.
2. Try various options in turn like a monkey on a typewriter till
I hit bingo.
3. I go back and think nicer things of the schmuck, even refer to
him as a mensch, because success has mellowed me.

--
dorayme

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