which site maker?

[John Rayner]

Hi Bill,

The check's in the mail. Hope you are not on dialup... I just emailed you 90% of my reference library.

[Soquili]

Thanks John. I don't know if my hotmail account will accept files larger then 2MB.

[John Rayner]

your Hotmail Barfed it back at me. So I sent you a little bite. Just the HTML reference.

[stlewis]

John

I know you can do that - my own Bricks & Brass site uses php/mysql to build some pages dynamically - but I keep these to a minimum because I want good search engine performance.

But for a relative/absolute beginner, I think a combination of a wysiwyg-ish tool and a good editor (I use Textpad) plus the books etc you are recommending will get him/her off to a good start.

[John Rayner]

Simon,

The sites I quoted above are flat html. The scripting is run on my computer no the server, then uploaded. There is nothing dynamic about the site as far as search engines are concerned.

There are several benifits from this. Speed loading a page, Search engine placement, server loading. I would rather spend my server clock cycles feeding pages to visitors than building the pages.

[StevieB]

Great HTML reference John. Thanx a lot.
I'm afraid out here in a cottage, in the middle of a field in Ireland, is not on the urgency list of the national DSL network provider, so it's just plain old ISDN at the moment. They have promised Broadband by Xmas, but I aint holdin my breath.
The HTML reference didnt take that long to download, Thanx again, very much appreciated

[John Rayner]

If interested, I have an equally great Javascipt reference, and a PHP reference. PERL, you will have to dig up the reference for that yourself.

[StevieB]

extremely interested, and of course, extremely grateful

[Soquili]

Thanks John!! I got the HTML reference. As Stevie said, it's great.

[John Rayner]

that reference is courtesy of the old netscape. I do not know where it is buried in the new netscape. Will email more when I get home.