Writing web pages

The pages of this site are very basic and involve no 'clever stuff'. The early pages were created using Netscape Composer which was a basic free WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor provided as part of the Netscape navigator package. Later pages were produced using Microsoft Front Page but the vast majority are now created and maintained using the wonderful Adobe Contribute software.

This allows the job of maintaining to be shared between a number of individuals and access rights can be managed easily. It makes certain operations very easy such as inserting videos. It also makes it easy to update from different locations such as home or school without needing to have copies of pages. It essentially edits 'on the fly'. You bring down the page of the server with a single click , edit and then send straight back.

Useful links to help with writing web pages

A huge resource of free stuff to help with web page creation. Well worth a browse and of course, as the name suggests all free.

Both the above have free, easy to follow tutorials on every aspect that I can think of. they will take you from using a basic WYSIWYG editor, through HTML to creating CCS and scripts. Again, all free.

This is a beautiful piece of software that will create simple or complex Flash slide shows form your photographs. The wizard helps you though by the hand or you can take full control. It is a priced product but the free copy has full functionality and only differs by including a link back to the company at the end. (Which is how I found it).

This is a really useful free service that will generate forms for your website. This allows people to send you a message without having to either give your email address on the web page and without them needing to have an email client working.

Download and install the image re-sizer. This gives you a right click option to make any picture or pictures smaller and so better for a web page.