Post by Celera on May 4, 2007 14:40:22 GMT -5
So, I've been working on rebuilding my blog. Well, mostly I've been working on getting Kielon to rebuild my blog for me .
But, one can't impose on one's friends forever. And, I have looked at approximately 5,347,862 "themes" for Wordpress and none of them makes me very happy. So, it seemed time for me to learn to make some sense of the gibberish that is used to create these designs. I don't really need to build my own stuff from scratch, but I at least need to find something that is close to what I want and then modify the colors or fonts or easy stuff like that.
Now, I learned to do a little programming back in the days of DOS and BASIC. But that was a long time ago, and Kielon can certainly attest to my general ineptitude with modern systems. Nevertheless, I believe that I have learned about as much as I need to know, in a mere couple of hours, about HTML, at the following site: www.html.net
I've tried to learn html before without success, but this tutorial seems to be very well done. I've glanced at the tutorial for CSS and it also looks very straightforward.
Most of you already know how to do this stuff, but if you don't, or know someone like me -- someone who is not stupid but just a bit behind on how the Internet works -- your grandparents, maybe -- this seems a very good place to start.
Now I just need a site with some sort of index of common commands or tags or whatever you are supposed to call them, since I only learned a few basic ones from the tutorial. I'm sure I can find something, but if anyone has a suggestion, please share!
But, one can't impose on one's friends forever. And, I have looked at approximately 5,347,862 "themes" for Wordpress and none of them makes me very happy. So, it seemed time for me to learn to make some sense of the gibberish that is used to create these designs. I don't really need to build my own stuff from scratch, but I at least need to find something that is close to what I want and then modify the colors or fonts or easy stuff like that.
Now, I learned to do a little programming back in the days of DOS and BASIC. But that was a long time ago, and Kielon can certainly attest to my general ineptitude with modern systems. Nevertheless, I believe that I have learned about as much as I need to know, in a mere couple of hours, about HTML, at the following site: www.html.net
I've tried to learn html before without success, but this tutorial seems to be very well done. I've glanced at the tutorial for CSS and it also looks very straightforward.
Most of you already know how to do this stuff, but if you don't, or know someone like me -- someone who is not stupid but just a bit behind on how the Internet works -- your grandparents, maybe -- this seems a very good place to start.
Now I just need a site with some sort of index of common commands or tags or whatever you are supposed to call them, since I only learned a few basic ones from the tutorial. I'm sure I can find something, but if anyone has a suggestion, please share!