Introduction of Manlai’s blog for HTML Help

Welcome to Manlai’s blog! In very first, thank you all for visiting to my blog. My name is Manlai Bat-Orshikh, and I’m in computer science major of Colorado State University. My hobby is web design, so I just decided to share with you my hobby.

I think, this blog will help to the people who are interesting to learn web design and/or quick review of HTML basic tags, CSS and tutorials advise (there are thousands of tutorials that are either good and bad) etc. Also, it would be a good shot for people who are just starting to learn web design with no idea. The reason why I choose HTML by the topic is that HTML is a base language of all other web developing languages such as VB, Ajax, PHP, and ColdFusion etc.

Let’s start with the text editors and tools because we need to choose a tool that is comfortable to use for you before start. We can use all kinds of text editors to write HTML code, so I’m suggesting…

Adobe Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is a widely used web developing tool. Especially it’s more favor for creating design view for beginners. Of course, professionals use it a most because Dreamweaver has abilities to work with languages: PHP, Coldfusion, ASP, JavaScript, XML and JSP.

Advantages:

• Code and design view or split them options
• To create unjustified and playable table function (sometimes it’s confusing to create a table with merged cells)
• You don’t have to know HTML in order to use Dreamweaver
• Flexible to work with text format from any source (MS Word, Frontpage etc)
• Web pages that created with Dreamweaver work well in a variety of web browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla versions )

Only disadvantage I can say is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) organize. While using Dreamweaver, the program automatically creates CSS tags in individual pages you are working in. For example, when you write a paragraph and colored by red, the program creates a CSS tag for that (e.g <style5>), that tag can only be used in the page that the tag created. So, when you reorganize or update multiple pages, you must update every single pages for design.

If you are interesting Dreamweaver, click here to visit adobe’s web site and download a trial version.

I found very good and simple tutorial, if you interest, click here or click Dreamweaver picture above.

Front Page

Similar to Dreamweaver, but less advantages. However, it’s one of Microsoft Office applications, which means it’s in everywhere. Sometimes we need to work in lab or with other computers, but not that much computers have the programs we need right? For that condition, we can use FrontPage which is in computers have MS office.

Some pro people use this, because FrontPage is more useful for creating database design.

Text Editors

As I know, every text editing programs can be used for HTML such as Notepad, Textpad, Emac, MS Office word etc. But the text editors are more useful when check, insert simple things (image, text), update pages that already created because those are efficient to work with (close, open and rename). If you like to type more, you can use text editors for create web sites but I would suggest you that you don’t need to waste your time.