HTML programming

Writing content for webpages is kinda like writing books or a paper... (I'm better at talking than writing)
Designing a webpage is kinda like art... (I can't even draw a straight line)
Writing the webpage yourself, including the tags is like programming... (and that is something most people can't)

That's the theory. Now take a look at some pages. A lot of pages are "written" in a "HTML-Editor", most of the time Frontpage. This only results in a huge file containing a few words and a few hundred <font></font> tags, with or without a single character in between. The rest of the page then consists of buttons that only work in Internet Explorer (there are other browses, and some at least try to respect some standards).

The huge amount of pictures on a page often makes the time for it to load unacceptable. Not everyone has a fast connection, and even if everyone did, there's no reason to abuse bandwith for things people don't want anyway.

It's also a good idea to enable everyone to look at your page. Of course you can use pictures, even if people don't use browser that is capable of displaying them, but at least use [ALT] tags. There's also no use in forcing people to use a newer browser so they can show you frames (pages which don't allow you to bookmark an individual page, remember?).

These pages have been written in a texteditor (an advanced one, but still just a text editor, sometimes even Notepad, if I had no choice). The bar with links on the left side of the screen has been generated with my Tab Generator, which is still in development. As you can see, it does what it's supposed to do. And it does it quite nice as well. When it's able to create pages other than just these, it will appear on my projects page.

The designprinciple of these pages is: keep it simple! There is a limited amount of pictures, and at all times quite readable in text-only browsers. The pages look slightly different in every browser, but have been tested at some time in recent versions of each of the major browsers (Internet Exploder, Netscape, Opera, Lynx, W3M). Of course, there's no "Frames" version available :)

Even though there are a lot of resources that you can find on the web, I found one a few years ago that is quite good. It is a copy, so I don't deserve any credits for it. The file is quite big (about 180Kb), so be sure you want to see the list of HTML elements. It does not contain a link back to this page, so use the "back" button in your browser.

These pages are best viewed with a webbrowser.
Last updated: november 25th 2001.