The biggest problem facing most people is that they aren’t HTML wizards, capable of churning out websites as fast as they can type. When it comes to putting up a website, the ‘geeks’ definitely have an advantage. How can we overcome that?
The key is to remember that structure and presentation are two different things. Now, I realize I just spoke Greek… ‘Structure’ is the underlying foundation of a website – the ‘glue’ that holds it all together and performs whatever functions you may require.
‘Presentation’, on the other hand, is what the website actually looks like. Smart website programmers attempt as much as possible to separate the foundation of their website from the presentation of the content contained on their website. The ways to do this are beyond this short article – but you can look up ‘CSS’ should you be interested.
Some people turn to ‘turnkey’ website templates, but there are two major problems… unless you know HTML, you can’t modify what you start with, and chances are, it’s going to look like a few thousand other sites. (Of...