Hey guys, Heres where I am at, I just got an associates degree in programming but i have a lt of questions about making a site,

1)if i were to make sites for people as a small business then should i write the html myself or should i use frontpage?

2) i have been messing with FP and i cannot seem to get the text in a table right, everytime i write something then go to the next line there is a huge space between lines?

3)what is a good web hosting site that can also supply domain names and what does spave usually run?

I have alot of questions but i will try and figure things out as i go along, if you guys could help me for now that would be great,. thanks

1) Write the code yourself/use Dreamweaver. Front Page is for amateurs.

2) See #1

Frontpage creates invalid code, it would be better to use a text html editor, even notepad would do.

To find out if your HTML is valid check out: the W3C Markup Validator :)

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ok in html then why is there this huge space between my code.please let me know

table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
tr align="left"
td colspan="2"H1 name of page /H1
specializing in blah blah /td/tr

i eliminated the brackets. why is there a space between name of page adn specializing in blah

1) I'd recommend getting a simple but effective text editor that has syntax highlighting and maybe even tag completion. I usually use EditPlus 2 for my HTML/PHP stuff and it's nice, but probably not the best. VI on *nix is good too. Check Sourceforge for open source free editors for Windows and Linux.

2) Bah to Frontpage and any other WYSIWYG editor. Stick with good old ASCII.

3) Godaddy.com is a good supplier of domain names. Cheap, and they give you great control over DNS and the like. They can also host the site, but from what I've seen, some of the best and cheapest shared hosting is at Powweb.com. Offer tons of stuff for less than $8/mo.

concerning the big space between lines

there is a difference between ENTER and SHIFT ENTER - in the second case, the text is seen as the same paragraph whereas in the first, you create a new paragraph

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see the h1 tag? it creates extra space above and below your text... the h in h1 stands for header which means that it should be spaced away from the other text. if you want to change the text size w/o get space in between i'd either use css or a font tag with the size changed to 1 or 5 or whatever you want. syntax for that is

[td colspan="2"]
[font size="5"]name of page[/font]
specializing in blah blah
[/td]

and to comment on bryans post, frontpage isnt just for amateurs but for people that arent serious about web-developement... do you know any real professionals that use frontpage? i bet and professional that actually knnows web-making could make a website more than twice as fast and more efficient than the guy that doesnt know crap about it.

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FBI, absolutely.

I definitely agree that Front Page is great for people who aren't serious about web design, and just do it on the side for fun, or for their personal sites (read: amateur).

The price is just right for the consumer, which is great.