I'm creating a website

[PigDogg]

I'm thinking of creating a website, mostly for practice.

What's the easiest and cheapest way to do this?

[olekunde]

if you want a static web page, you can easily use any html editor or learn html(easy)

if you want any cgi action you need to know how to program a language. perl and php is the easiest. c/c++ and java for more complex. but all languages have libraries that support methods to get and send data from a web page.
the most popular these days seems to be php and java and have a virtual java machine (you can code java directly into the html code - and use jsp, struts etc)

for simple dynamic html operations you can use javascript

for more fancy look, you need to learn flash. you can use applets, but they are bigger and not as quick.

[PigDogg]

Is something like http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmas...leditors.shtml what you're talking about? Is this fundamental.y diffwerent than Geocities?

[stogie bear]

If you can get a copy of 'Front Page' it works pretty much like Word.

There are a couple of things you will need to pick up like how to 'upload' the (image) files you are using to a place on the internet. Let me know the next time you are in town and we'll do a crash course.

It's a lot easier than you might think it is and also I can set you up with some web space...

SB

[olekunde]

Is something like http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmas...leditors.shtml what you're talking about? Is this fundamental.y diffwerent than Geocities?

i have no clue about html editors since i never use them, i would code the html by hand, but i think you can save your document as html instead as a .doc or .txt. whap happens is that word will process the html code for you. usually not very effective code(as all html editors), but ok for smaller sites and static pages.

[PigDogg]

Thanks Stogie! And Olkunde!