I am just finishing up a book about web page design and desktop publishing using FrontPage 2000. I am itching to try to write an HTML web page but I am vacillating between doing it here at home and using a linux text editor and web browser, etc. Or should I go to school and use the popular culturally dominant microsoft applications. I know that if I do use microsoft it will probably be easier and that will be much easier access to materials and programs and help, etc. And yet my rebel nature insists that i use the outsider system. Linux no doubt has the same and maybe even better programms and chances of them being free and easy access once acquired are very good. Linux is a very supportive and friendly system!! What I need to decide i guess is exactly how easy I want the creative process to be. I am beginning to see in my mind what I want my site to look like. Right now I am also debating whether I should make my comics dominant or place them in their own section. Like, section off the page visually and textually. Into separate blocks of text and graphics. I want to have graphic a image of Ravengirl, maybe as an animated host, and I want to have other websites as an integral part of the page. How many pages initially and what colour is still in the air (so to speak). Virtually I see a page that looks like a magazine index page with larger than usual graphics for the site introductions and then sites to take the viewer to more elaborate or complete images/graphics on the topic/subject. As soon as I get my scanner attached I will try to scan some images, rough draft drawings of the page. In reading the web pages for dummies book I have managed to acquire the idea that I might actually be able to create a web page. Now I have to go out and physically make it happen.
Tags: media studies project
October 16, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Christie,
I vote for linux! Frontpage might make it easier, but you won’t learn as much (IMHO).
doug
October 16, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Well I am getting a little frustrated with the back and forthing to use microsoft and then to use linux. I have not got access to Front Page anyhow I was just reading it in order to have more than one perspective on the process of creating web pages. I am sure that there is a linux text editor that will allow me to create the web page so at this point I need to consult with my room mate because he does a lot more cruising in linux world than I do. But aside from my own ignorance I sure can notice a much friendlier and more supportive attitude among linux users and among the support system that is really responsive in real time.