Posted by Jose on 01/02/46 11:36

> Could I open it in a HTML editor and make a few small changes to
> improve things? Or would it be like a house of cards where if I remove
> one thing the whole structure comes crashing down?

I suspect the latter. Your code is laboriously placing every element
somewhere precise, and (of course) the browsers comply to the user's
detriment (won't gracefully resize, demands certain window widths, etc).
Post a link and you may get more help. To "fix" the code you'll have
to take out at least two thirds of it... and figuring out which two
thirds is harder than simply re-creating it.

HTML is not a presentation tool. It is a description tool. The web
browser is the presentation tool. You tell the browser =what= something
represents, and the browser decides how to best represent it.

Despite the opinions of some that decry WYSIWIG HTML editors, they do
have their place for simple sites (but avoid FrontPage like the plague,
as it locks you into itself). I run a simple site using Netscape
Composer and it works fine for my purposes right now. It's easy to
create content, and you can see and mess with the code. Doing so you
can teach yourself the rudiments of HTML too (though it does use tables
for layout, a tolerable evil IMHO when compared with the huge amounts of
CSS code I have seen on some sites (every word seems to have its own set
of tags!).

Post a link to your site so we can see what you are trying to do.

Jose
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