Basic for web design

[Francesco Giacanelli]

Dear Web4lib Users,

I have joined the list from several months, and I have appreciate very much its richness of informations about web problems from a librarian/documentalist point of view. But, until now my interest was only personal, as I was not a web manager, nor our documentation center had a web site. Now we are going to put our documentation center on the web, and I am responsible for this.
The informations I am looking for are very elementary for the technical skills of the Web4libbers and I apologize if they are not of interest.
What I would like to know is:
1) Is it possible for a person who has not programming skills (like me) to use HTML language (also with the enhancements for the accessibility), Perl, CGI (to put database and catalogue on the web) or is it better to ask for help from a programmer (notice that, at the moment, the ours is one-person library)? I have tried in the past to write in HTML language, finding that it was not so difficult, but now I don't want to have bad surprises.
2) Could you advice me some basic reading about this topic?

Thank you for patience with me (answer me and not the list if this is not of interest)
Best regards
Francesco Giacanelli

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Francesco Giacanelli
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