What
you need to make a page.
- A computer.
- The one you are
using is
probably good enough for the job. If it is less than 5 years old it
almost certainly is!
80% of the web site (up till April
2005) was developed on a Pentium 133 with 80meg of RAM (bought in 1997)
running Windows NT4. So don't think you need the "latest and greatest"
hardware and operating system. There
is a
difference between nice to have and need to have.
- I currently use a PII 400
with 256Meg RAM for maintaining the site. That is my
definition of need to have for hardware! Anything better is a bonus.
- Normal computer skills.
- I
assume you can use a
mouse, know
how to drag & drop,
can switch between windows
on the application bar, can use the Menu Bar,
can manage files and folders with the Explorer
[a console in
Linux.]
- A web browser.
- The
one you are using is
fine. You will use it to check your work
as you go along. Your work will be checked in a number of browsers -
including
Firefox
1.0.1, 
Epiphany
1.0.7, 
Mozilla
1.2.1, and 
Internet
Explorer 5.
- An
application to write web
pages.
- There are many applications
that can write Web pages - you can
even use your word processor (e.g. Word Perfect, MS Word or
Open
Office - though these allow you to create all kinds of problems I have
to correct before the page can be published). However, the best thing
is to use an application designed specifically to make web pages
because they are technically better than word processors at doing this
job. We
are going to use 
Nvu
to build the page because
it is technically sound, easy to use, works on any operating system,
and is free.
- Some
things from the
webmaster!
- Do not worry about that
now
- we will discuss that before you build your first page!
Lets
find out
where to Get what
you need
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pages, the whole
site or the non-frames Sitemap?)
