This is a page to highlight a web-design I used to use for my entire
website.
It is based on a design by
Dan Hersam,
which i got
here. The look of this page is a bit different to the original style
it was based on. However, the biggest change is that the table-like layout
is achieved using Cascading Style Sheets instead of tables.
I learned how to do this from a
tutorial on the O'Reilly website. I changed to the current design
because it was easier to maintain than this setup (I couldn't think of
things to put in the sideboxes ;-).
Sources:
An authoritive source of information on HTML is available from
W3C in their HTML-4.01
specification.
Cascading Style Sheets are very useful also in creating compact
and consistent web-pages.
W3C also provide a
specification
to help you create your CSS media.
The Open Source Web Design pages are a good place to start, as they have lots of nice pages you can use as the basis of your own. These pages are based on a design by Dan Hersam, which i got
here. His design was in turn derived from another!
Software:
There are many pieces of software available to help you in
creating HTML. Try
VIM (Vi IMproved). It is a
fine editor, and makes most editing tasks easier.
Netscape also provides
Netscape Composer, which you can use to produce web content.
It has its uses.
Producing graphics is very software dependent. Any graphics
created for these pages were produced using
The Gimp. It is
generally considered to be the best graphics package for GNU-Linux.
Remember, you should try to make your pages readable by as many browsers
(and hence users) as possible. A list of browsers is included in the links
panel.
Other Web Output:
The
UCD-SVP web page was the
first page I produced. Some elements of this page were used
in the
GaelSpell
webpage (hence the credit at the bottom), although the
actual work,
graphics and design were done by Diarmaid Mac Mathúna.
Finally,
Linux Gazette
suffers some of my input on a monthly basis via the News Bytes
column.