[WEB4LIB] Strategy on designing web page

[Andrew Mutch]

Francesco,


> Are HTML editor so unreliable?

Yes!


> (I tried to open a page with FrontPage editor and it looks completly different formatted as in Netscape). Is a question of validation of HTML code?

Maybe not....the code may validate but you'll find that each browser will render the pages slightly differently.

> Any advice on strategy for designing web page will be appreciate.

One thing you'll have to accept for the time being is that you'll never get "perfect" format because each web browser chooses how it renders the HTML code you write.  If it is a simple page of text, maybe you'll find that you can live with the discrepancies.  If the formatting is more important, you may have to try another design or method to achieve a consistent effect.

One way to save yourself a lot of time if you are creating pages with "simple textual news" is to create "template" pages as the base for starting your pages.  Create a page, clean-up the code until it meets your satisfaction and then save it and set its properties to read-only so you don't lose all your work.  Do this for all of the page layouts that you use most frequently so that you don't have to constantly go back and clean-up the poor code that Composer is notorious for creating.

Good Luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI