Yes, you can learn real HTML quickly. There are two excellent books in our Book Shop's How To page. If you can get the time, these books will give you all the assistance you need to get pages on to the Net.
But how hard can it be to create a Web page? After all, you only need MS Office or MS Publisher or MS FrontPage or SmartSuite and away you go, right? Right! So long as you consider the following factors in terms of impacts on your customers (Web development is nothing if it is not about compromises in almost every aspect):
The so called
WYSIWIG tools tend to produce what their companies consider is the appropriate HTML for the
Web. Netscape and Internet Explorer often "eat" HTML that does not conform to
their respective views of cyberspace. If you are into this kind of thing, see the comments
on the About page.
If your page is not
all but fully on display on your customer's browser in less than 45 seconds, your
customer is likely to go elsewhere.
Large, finely
detailed pictures and short page load time are mutually antagonistic.
Depending
where your market lies, half your customers may view Web pages at lower resolutions than you
do and with an older version of the browser than you do. Having said that, Web statistics
indicate that 90% of people are using browsers that are style sheet aware.
You will be
in control of the requirements and specification phases of the job and with full approval
before the next stage is commenced.
The
development phase will include an agreed reporting schedule and an agreed review schedule.
Your web site
will load quickly and easily (emphasis on quickly) in the current versions of the
popular browsers.
Your pages
will be coded in an open, easy to maintain format that is compliant with the prevailing HTML
and Cascading Style Sheet standards ("tricks" to get around deficiencies between
the current versions of the browsers are forbidden in Lasotell code).
