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Hi!
I've been reading many of the excellent reports for the current crop of games. Which are informative way to fill a dull day at work btw. Thanks for them! 
Noticed some people have put their work into website form.
I'd like to give that a try. Am incredibly ignorant about web design and think reporting would be a good way to introduce myself to the subject.
Is it hard to do?
Does anyone have a link to a resource that could get me started on this?
To clarify it, oddly enough I'm actually a programmer, just everything I do is offline single workstation stuff. Not technologically illiterate, but no web experience. 
Will be thankful for any help you can offer!
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NVu is a decent free WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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This link is one of the better tutorials IMO.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
I'm the opposite to you - I used to make websites a lot but prefer my RB reports to be posted directly into the forums 
Once you get used to that, then all the cool kids are using XHTML and CSS to do their websites. That separates the content from the presentation. You have a html file with the content, which calls the css file to style the page.
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/ http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Anything you don't understand, feel free to ask
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Thanks very much to both of you!
WYSIWYG is great, but kinda like to know what's going underneath - otherwise I'll get distracted from wondering about it and trying to change things.
That link looks fantastic. Will check it out this evening and see if I can't learn some webby things!
I also normally post SG reports and the like as forum posts, but figured a different approach might teach me something! Also my first RB one seems like it would benefit from some linking. Make it easier to browse.
Figure I'll try this HTML stuff first. Running before walking and all that!
sooooo Wrote:Anything you don't understand, feel free to ask
I may well spam some questions in your direction!
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I use Phase5 HTML Editor. It ensures "clean" html and not the WYSIWYG kind of html files. If you google phase5 html editor, it should give you lots of download possibilities. It is freeware btw.
The easiest way to publish quick and dirty is using MS Word.
For learning html I used the selfhtml sites. Unfortunately they are only available in German. http://de.selfhtml.org/
To learn how a particular design you like is done you can right click on the page (in Firefox at least) and View Page Source. This gives you the plain html format.
Good luck
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phase5 here to . Lately I'm doing most of the stuff in PHP and MySQL though, those database driven Websites sure are a cool thing...
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Er.... Please pardon my ignorance... But does this Phase5 have some English interface? I can't understand a single word in Deustche! 
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German might be a bit of a sticking point for me as well. A year studying at school and I wasn't very good at it. 
Hoping to get this project kickstarted soon!
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Hi,
FeedBack Wrote:But does this Phase5 have some English interface? I'm afraid not.
If you use Linux, Bluefish or Quanta Plus are excellent HTML editing tools. But I guess you're not using Linux, eh? 
If you're a Windows user, you could still use a general all-purpose text editor to create your website. Modern text editors have rudimentary support for HTML; a good one is Notepad++. It supports HTML syntax highlighting and auto-completion, which should be enough for a small project like a CIV website IMHO. You're only missing out on automatic tag closure, syntax checking and dialogs for things like automatic table creation or color dialogs - but if you want to learn HTML, you should start without these anyway.
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
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Thanks for the reply!
Kylearan Wrote:Hi,
If you use Linux, Bluefish or Quanta Plus are excellent HTML editing tools. But I guess you're not using Linux, eh?
If you're a Windows user, you could still use a general all-purpose text editor to create your website. Modern text editors have rudimentary support for HTML; a good one is Notepad++. It supports HTML syntax highlighting and auto-completion, which should be enough for a small project like a CIV website IMHO. You're only missing out on automatic tag closure, syntax checking and dialogs for things like automatic table creation or color dialogs - but if you want to learn HTML, you should start without these anyway.
-Kylearan
You got it right. I use Windows.
I use the Coffee Cup free editor now. See, I've done a lot of ASP, JSP, and web-related stuff works, so HTML isn't an issue for me. Sometimes you just need a break from these geek stuff.
I'd like an easy WYSIWYG editor, with clean code. A long time ago I used HomeSite, but I'm afraid it got bought by some other company. Coffee Cup is good (with an embeded FTP client), but the interface lacks a few shortcuts (like Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+F4) I'm used to.
I think I'm just being an old grumpy guy now... 
Sorry if I threadjacked you, TriviAl!
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