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JustWait[_2_]

On 6/18/2012 7:50 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:00:29 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 6/18/12 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:31:37 -0400, wrote:

The world is full of learning opportunities if you are willing to
read, watch and ask questions.

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Absolutely true. There's nothing like a curious mind and the
motivation to follow up. I'm always amazed at the amount of
collective knowledge that exists on the internet these days. I taught
myself HTML and Javascript back in the 90s just from internet based
education of various sorts - partly as a hobby, and partly because I
knew it would eventually come in handy with my day job.

I started learning the programming necessary to develop a decent website
about a year ago, and I thought the learning curve was really steep at
the beginning. I do ok now, though I'm certainly no "whiz," and I
recently produced a nice new webpage for one of my NGO clients.
It's a geopolitical site, and we're getting about 200 hits a day, which
isn't bad, considering we're not doing much to promote it.

If I was actually building a commercial web site I would use a program
like Front Page or maybe something more powerful.
I just use my web page as an FTP site so I don't need that much
software. You can make something functional with word.

I am surprised you would use FrontPage, it's such a dog and very
proprietary. When we build sites I use Dreamweaver and then the wife
goes in and manually cleans up the HTML...