The broad global acceptance of the World Wide Web and the potential it offers each and every one of us, whether you want a simple personal site or a richly featured professional site, has been truly empowering on a global scale. Unfortunately, one of the unwanted side effects of such a powerful but still primitive technology has been to transform the role of nerd from spotty-oik-at-the-back-of-the-class to something approaching a scary cross between car mechanic and superjock. This is because most software, whether open source like WordPress or proprietary like Microsoft, is about as user-friendly as Spanish verbs or calculus.
There is now a new hope in the shape of this useful and easy-to-read book. Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS walks the willing student, be they dilettante dabbler or serious wannabe, through an easy sequence of steps, using nothing more complex than a basic text editor, that build up into a set of practical site construction skills. This book may well shift the balance of power back towards us "normal" folk!
As you may well already know, necessity is the mother of invention and, despite lacking any formal computer training, I decided last year to find interesting ways to supplement my income by using the web. Having the desire is one thing but the ability to make it happen is quite another and without some grasp of the basic techniques of website construction, no new Internet-based business can ever get off the ground.
The options come down to these: 1) find a nerdy partner, 2) pay a freelancer, or 3) do it yourself. A combination of lack of said nerd and funds allied with a bloody-minded streak a mile wide have led me steadily if reluctantly to the self-help option. This book makes that possible, even for an anti-geek like me. This book is so good, so well-written and helpful that I'm hoping the day when I never have to suffer using poor or downright incompetent technical support or beg favours off nerdian friends again has come into view!
Article comments
1 - Natalie Bennett
This article has been selected for syndication to Advance.net, which is affiliated with newspapers around the United States. Nice work!
2 - Christopher Rose
Wow, that's so cool! Thank you very much.
3 - Ron
Very useful for noobies. I was just looking for something similar. Thanks it will help a lot in school project for my brother.
4 - metalhead
Building site with html and css??!! Give me a break, what kind of site you can make using only html and css, without database?
5 - Jakov
Thanks, very useful post!!!
6 - bliffle
Frankly, there's too much flash and sizzle on websites and it's alienating users. Some of these websites are designed by people who have no interest in human values and are willing dupes of Certain Monopoly Companies who seek to overwhelm the internet and make it their proprietary slave.
RSS arose because people hate to open 12 websites every morning and stumble through 12 totally different interfaces to get their morning shot of news and gossip.
Many users hope that "Web 2.0" is an extended RSS that presents pages in a format of the users choosing, not the format of the vendor, and that any proprietary closed interface media are automatically converted to a standardized open software form.
7 - geetha
Thanks for the mentioned and its very informative.