Webpages

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Webpages

We were given 10MB of static webpages with BT Internet and three CGI scripts with BTInternet.

This has shaped my journey.

We needed a boat booking system for the sailing club. At the time there was a paper diary and you phoned the owner of the diary. http://www.dougrice.plus.com/

So we could learn about writing HTML and uploading the page over a dial-up modem at 56K.

Try and record what is simple and what is more complex.

What features require more complexity.

I have though I need to write down for myself a path through the journey.

HTML

A web page written in pure HTML can be written using a simple text editor and opened using a Web Browser.

Learning HTML requires documentation which, at the time was in books from a bookshop.

I had dialup, but it used the phone line, needed a phone call and prevented incoming calls.

Images probably needed to be scanned from photos.

Microsoft provided Frontpage express, and website authors were using Dreamweaver

Tools for HTML

1. Notepad for text
2. Paint for diagrams and images

BT Internet did not allow CGI scripts.

Local Webservers

I could run Appache on my PC using fixed IP addresses.

https://imatix-legacy.github.io/xitami/25b4/

1. Microsoft IIS
2. Appache
3. xitami - https://imatix-legacy.github.io/xitami/25b4/

Remote Webservers

Web hostering was evolving

1. BT Internet
2. excaliber
3. Webhoster

This was accessed using DialUp?, it was before CPANEL so you needed to find a tool to FTP your files to to the liver server. As you were using a penny per minute dialup, it was best to not develop on the live server.

HTML

Leaning HTML requires a lot of skills

1. paragraphs
2. Headings
3. tables
4. images
5. styles

At the times Styles were inline and it was pre CSS.

A study of the HTML exported by Microsoft Word required a mass of bloat.

It was before CSS and the HTML seemed to use P tags and SPAN tags and styles.

I am still looking for a tools that produced the minimum HTML for a nice looking page.

CSS

CSS was another thing to learn. Amists the mass of other worries, The syntax was lost on me

 style=" color:red; "      
 class=name   needs    .name 
 id=name  needs #name

Client side or Server Side