Posted by MajorSetback on 11/14/29 11:37

Neredbojias wrote:
> With neither quill nor qualm, MajorSetback@excite.com quothed:
>
> > I am starting up a home business and will be setting up a web site to
> > market the software that I will be developing in C++. I was wondering
> > if I should buy something like Dreamweaver or Frontpage or try to
> > develop the web pages directly using HTML and a text editor.
>
> The latter. Html is simple. Css, which you'll also need, is fairly
> simple although there are some issues regarding its efficacy and inter-
> browser rendering.
>
> You should be able to make a decent web page within 1-2 weeks. If you
> apply yourself, you could be an "expert" in both well within a year.
>
> I started by viewing the source of and "hacking" (-benignly) html email
> then diddling with frontpage and being accordingly dissatisfied then
> viewing the source of web pages I liked on the Net. The biggest flaw in
> my learning-curve was not finding a newsgroup such as this one sooner to
> get feedback on which procedures were right and which were not so right
> as well as further methods and additional information not encountered in
> my other efforts.

That sounds like the way to do it. I have taken that approach with
nroff in the past. Yikes, that probably ages me a bit. :-)

Thanks very much,
Peter.

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