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My problem is that my homepage (Extime: http://www.hot.ee/extime) really sucks. So I just want to know how do make a homepage what doesn't suck? :-\ :'(

Think a little bit. And you know it's easyer to make a page with some program than writing everything by yourself.


-Eigen

Like that's gonig to answer my question ;D

Well...he does have a point...

Geocities Page Builder
Microsoft FrontPage
Dreamweaver
ect...

let you design pages from templates or just drag and drop...they also let you edit the HTML( some of them ) to add other stuff.

I design all of my html by hand in notepad... and I don't think I do so bad:
http://www.agigames.com/site.php
http://www.agigames.com/test/

Anyway, I would recommend using editors like mentioned before. Of course that is for beginners, the reason I don't use programs like that is because it adds extra stuff to the html code that I generally do not want. Most experts prefer to do their html themselves.

Made my whole site using Putty and iXplorer (last one for uploading zips, gifs, etc). Done all the html-stuff in joe and can't say I don't like the result

-Kon-Tiki-

Anyway, I would recommend using editors like mentioned before. Of course that is for beginners, the reason I don't use programs like that is because it adds extra stuff to the html code that I generally do not want. Most experts prefer to do their html themselves.

Or they use Dreamweaver MOEHAHAHAHAHA

I use a combination of Mozilla Composer, PHP and a text editor.

- Nick

I use wOmEn to get mine done. Go down on them and they take care of everything.

I design all of my html by hand in notepad...

Same here...

and I don't think I do so bad:

Same here??? I don't know


Anyway, if you want to write the code yourself: this is the site I like most: http://www.w3schools.com/

I just ripped off Nick's website and modified it to possess my data.

When I make page in the notepad then I hate the result (usually).

Try to make your page graphical first and sketch layouts. For example, design a left/top navigation bar. Then have a look what HTML would be most suitable, like frames, tables, CSS etc. Once that is done, make the graphics (either single buttons, or a graphic on a whole that you cut into single buttons) and put them on the page. Code the pages and make them as simple as possible - leave all your formatting to stylesheets. They control the formatting of specific commands such as .
If you want, you can add fancy rollover effects to your textlinks then using CSS.

The easiest is probably to have a two-frame page with a left (navigational) frame and a content frame. Design one menu and just let CSS take care of the formatting of the actual pages. That's how I did our webpage.

If you have any questions on CSS, feel free to ask.

Hope that helped,

Zonkie