Posted by dorayme on 02/24/07 22:04

In article <W62Eh.15372$AU.2802@newsfe07.phx>,
"Thad" <tsobota@cox.net> wrote:

> Having been out of the programming picture for a while, things have changed
> quite a bit. I want to write a neat and fancy html page but many things
> confuse me due to a the incompatibilities. Using only html seems so boring,
> though CSS helps a bit. I'm trying to use an external JavaScript program to
> show my side menu which links to my other pages depending on which product
> they want to look at. Would it be better to write the external code in some
> other language so that all browsers can see it or will it always be hit and
> miss depending on the users browser? What got me wondering this is the fact
> that users can turn off the JavaScript capability.
>
> Thanks,
> Thad

Why do you suppose you cannot get neat and fancy with html and
css? It is the result that counts, not the process of getting it.
Some of the best websites are really boring to make, the makers
yawning their way through the lot; everyone else being immensely
grateful. As for css helping a bit, what? For you to be less
bored?

Time for you to have a decko at

<http://www.csszengarden.com/>

But it also sounds like you want to get your hands on
programming. Look at PHP, this can be used for running programs
on the server and delivering results to the web browsers, you can
do all sorts of mighty things then... but you still will need to
get to grips with html and css independently. It is just that
with server side scripting you can get fancier and neater control
over the whole process of managing and delivering the final
product.

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dorayme

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