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Originally these pages were created for the purpose of learning how to use HTML, basic as well as advanced. They are designed using Internet Explorer 5 or later, but with a few minor differences they display as well in Mozilla/Firefox and Opera.
And to do so you must have the right tools. The main tool being a good HTML editor, and Stone's Webwriter has a host of features including a very good HTML help system, a Map Editor and FTP for transferring the result. Due to the fact that all browsers are not created equal and most people including me only use one of the many possible browsers, you must be able to verify the contents of your Web page. You may also validate your code online by clicking the second button below.
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A good graphics program is a must, and the selection is large. From the expensive, professional programs like Adobe Photoshop over reasonably priced shareware programs like Paint Shop Pro to a host of freeware possibilities. An excellent and very fast program for image format conversion is the free Irfanview. It even handles sound and video. And if you are loooking for some nice tricks, just search the net or have a look at my links.
You may accomplish a lot using solely HTML, but to create an efficient and easily controllable design, you have to consider CSS. Cascadable Style Sheets are intended to handle the layout while HTML takes care of the content. For example all the pages here have a common layout covering background colour, text colour, text font, links and scroll bars using an external style sheet. Likewise the menu to the left has been created with CSS. In that way it loads much faster as had been the case if it had been implemented with real graphics
My pages are made more dynamic using DHTML - Dynamic HTML. To a certain degree they have been made interactive using JavaScript, JAVA, PHP and XML. The buttons in the menu to the left point to further information on those technologies.
These pages were initiated several years ago, which is the reason for their somewhat "oldfashioned" look. Lately many websites are constructed using a CMS, a Content Management System. In a CMS all content is placed in a database, and using PHP or equivalent the pages are then created and sent to the browser. The built-in administrative part of the CMS then allows the users to update and expand their pages manipulating the database. In this way the users do not have to engage in complicated HTML tools. In the Danish language pages Hollandske Fliser and Fonden Gamle Sønderho you may find two examples of the use of the CMS created by my wife Therese.
You must of cause have a place to put you homepage. Fortunately almost all ISPs offer you free space for that, so you only have to get a FTP program to be able to handle your creation. You may also, as I have done, choose to put your pages at a web hotel. In addition to that I have implemented a web server in my home computer. It may be reached when the power is on at oesten.homeip.net. Here you may find the pictures from my webcam.