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Being a Geek is a Good Thing? |
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Written by Chris Boylan
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See How a Web Page is Built
The best thing about the web is that in order for your browser to
display a website, it needs the source HTML. This may sound
complicated, but it isn’t. This means that all the information you need
to copy the page you see is available in plain text! Try it the next
time you get to a simple site.
Open a site in Internet Explorer. Click on “View” in the top menu of
the browser. It will be just to the right of “File”. Towards the
bottom of that menu will be “Source”. When you click on it, another
window will open up with the structure of that web page.
It may look confusing at first, so just look for words you see in your
browser. Every piece of text on the actual web page will appear in the
source. The rest of the text in the source is “markup”. Markup is
generally surrounded by “< and >”. That tells the browser how to
display that text, images and so on. I won’t tell you how to write
HTML here (at least not yet), but get a book from the library or visit Yahoo’s Tutorial directory. Now, save that source page on your
hard drive. Then try to edit the saved page. Open up the saved file
in your browser and see the changes. Its that simple. To start.
Then, as you get more confident, open up a Blogger account. Keep a blog, and edit the
template to change how it looks. In a few months, you’ll be able to
make enough basic changes that the source code won’t look as confusing
or intimidating. Besides, you’ll probably be able to pick up web
design more easily and quickly than that guitar you forgot about -
currently gathering dust your basement.
As always, AllAccess has my “The Net Untangled Tip of the Day” each
weekday and a column on Website Wednesdays. Next week, we’ll take a
look at web sites for your morning show. So check back and together
we’ll get our websites focused on keeping radio strong in this world of
increasing competition.
Do you agree with me? Am I an idiot? If you have comments or any
questions about radio websites – either general questions relating to
the industry or the web or even specific (HTML, PHP, .NET, Javascript,
etc.) questions, send me an email. I’ll answer your question quickly and
maybe even use it for a future column.
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is the Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Preppermint. He also writes a column on radio and the internet for AllAccess called "The Net Untangled" For a profession, he is an idea man who wondered why you needed to email a web guy to put your prep on your website. Then he wondered if he was able to concentrate hard enough to grow his toenails faster. He can. 
is the Chief Programmer and Co-Creator of Preppermint and is also the most likely among us to become an assassin. After serving in the Air Force and the Army's 82nd Airborne, Anthony grew tired of being able to kill people 67 ways with his bare hands. He and Chris came up with this idea to revolutionize web publishing, and he is the only one of the two smart enough to write it. Anthony spends most of his day fielding high paying job offers for his .NET programming skills. 
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