Comments on: Methods to My Madness - Building the Website http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/ Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Kirsty http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-130 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:08:38 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-130 Steve the people on there are so helpful. There's a lot of info already there to scan through but when you have specific issues people really take the time to help out usually. There are probably loads of free things out there that would help and I agree it would be good to have a resource with it all in one place. Ya Donovan my main hope with this post was to make people aware that anyone can get started straight away. There's no fancy, expensive software needed and everything you could ever need to learn can be found online somewhere. I was using the same code base for sites for ages but have only recently gotten sick of it and designed a whole new layout. It looks like this one will become my new base for future sites. Everytime I build onto the base though I learn more and more so new sites are always a bit improved. I'll look into Textpad, cheers. I find the colours on Notepad ++ really handy but for some reason I never seem to use it. Steve the people on there are so helpful. There’s a lot of info already there to scan through but when you have specific issues people really take the time to help out usually. There are probably loads of free things out there that would help and I agree it would be good to have a resource with it all in one place.

Ya Donovan my main hope with this post was to make people aware that anyone can get started straight away. There’s no fancy, expensive software needed and everything you could ever need to learn can be found online somewhere.

I was using the same code base for sites for ages but have only recently gotten sick of it and designed a whole new layout. It looks like this one will become my new base for future sites. Everytime I build onto the base though I learn more and more so new sites are always a bit improved.

I’ll look into Textpad, cheers. I find the colours on Notepad ++ really handy but for some reason I never seem to use it.

]]> by: Donovan http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-126 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:23:09 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-126 Great post! I think it's important to let people know that it's possible to build great sites and make money online even if you are just starting out. Learning everything you can is the key. Do you create unique layouts for each new site you build or do you reuse and existing code base? I will usually scavenge a basic layout from another project so I don't have to deal with browser compatibility issues for each site I build. I personally prefer TextPad to Notepad because it has syntax highlighting and better search and replace. I don't mind coding HTML and PHP in a text editor, but for CSS, I couldn't live without TopStyle. Great post! I think it’s important to let people know that it’s possible to build great sites and make money online even if you are just starting out. Learning everything you can is the key.

Do you create unique layouts for each new site you build or do you reuse and existing code base? I will usually scavenge a basic layout from another project so I don’t have to deal with browser compatibility issues for each site I build.

I personally prefer TextPad to Notepad because it has syntax highlighting and better search and replace. I don’t mind coding HTML and PHP in a text editor, but for CSS, I couldn’t live without TopStyle.

]]> by: Steve http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-125 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:14:05 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/19/methods-to-my-madness-building-the-website/#comment-125 Kirsty - thanks for the info, especially the link and info regarding the Digital point forums. I already have that one marked as a favorite since lord knows I've got questions. I've thought about dreamweaver and Frontpage - however, call me cheap but I just am not ready to put down that amount of cash yet, so right now I am doing the same thing you are - working with notepad and coding it all myself. Maybe a good idea for a future post is looking at what types of free software is out there on the web for anyone's use, and how good said software is. I know the working nomad touched on this in one of his posts about how inexpensive it could be to put up a website, but I have to think there is more free stuff out there. Just a thought.... Kirsty - thanks for the info, especially the link and info regarding the Digital point forums. I already have that one marked as a favorite since lord knows I’ve got questions.

I’ve thought about dreamweaver and Frontpage - however, call me cheap but I just am not ready to put down that amount of cash yet, so right now I am doing the same thing you are - working with notepad and coding it all myself.

Maybe a good idea for a future post is looking at what types of free software is out there on the web for anyone’s use, and how good said software is. I know the working nomad touched on this in one of his posts about how inexpensive it could be to put up a website, but I have to think there is more free stuff out there. Just a thought….

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