Help needed - Webpage basics

jmandoman

I am not well versed in javascript or html languages (I can speak a little spanish and french:D ). I want to upgrade to a Pro account and be able to customize the way my home page looks.

My questions are:

Do I need to know java or html to do this or is there some rudimentary interface that will let me do simple things?

Can I use Microsoft Word or something similar to do the layout and upload that for my homepage?

~jmandoman

Nikolai

Yes

jmandoman wrote:

Do I need to know java or html to do this or is there some rudimentary interface that will let me do simple things?

You don't have to know it completely, HTML 101 will do, but you still need to know what the tags are and whatnot, otherwise you'll end up with a broken page..

jmandoman wrote:

Can I use Microsoft Word or something similar to do the layout and upload that for my homepage?
~jmandoman

You can use MS FrontPage..:-) Still you need to know basics... I mean - if you want to make some reasonable changes..

The other way around - hire a wiz kid from a nearby high school, he'll make it for ya..

HTH

Mike Lane

jmandoman wrote:

I am not well versed in javascript or html languages (I can speak a little spanish and french:D ). I want to upgrade to a Pro account and be able to customize the way my home page looks.

My questions are:

Do I need to know java or html to do this or is there some rudimentary interface that will let me do simple things?

Can I use Microsoft Word or something similar to do the layout and upload that for my homepage?

~jmandoman

To do your header, you'd really like to know html and css. Java won't be required but you may want to know some javascript depending on how fancy you want to get - you can be quite fancy without javascript though just by using css.

I often find myself using the notepad to copy html and css down and then paste them into my cobranding page but you won't be able to build a page graphically in word (or any other similar program) and simply upload it to smugmug.

Here are some references for you about html and css (which is really all you'll need):

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/ (lots more advanced trickery in css)
http://www.westciv.com/courses/course_info/complete_css_guide/toc.html
http://glish.com/css/
http://wellstyled.com/archive.html (important css hacks)
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ (wow)

jmandoman

Mike,

This looks like great stuff. I'll have to do some studying. Thanks for the help.

~jmandoman

Baldy

Hey jmandoman,

Welcome! Dunno if you've seen this, but in case not:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/create-photo-album

A lot of people who know no HTML at all customize with that page.

Thanks,
Baldy

jmandoman

Thanks, Baldy. That's just what I was looking for to get started. ~jmandoman

Mike Lane

jamesver5 wrote: »

You can use a Adobe dreamweaver, you dont need any html knowledge

Wow. Five years really flies by. I give dreamweaver a big thumbs down in general and for doing SmugMug customizing it is really awful. FWIW