I used to build web pages for a communications company about 10 years ago, and it was simple.
Do the HTML coding and you had a page, and all you had to do was load it up to the site. Once loaded, just make sure it was published, and you had a website.
OK, I had even built my own site about 6-7 years ago, using the same procedure.
It worked, so, I was happy.
Now, though, building pages seems more complicated, and I got an XHTML/CSS book last year. I seemed to have an overall grasp, but, there are/were specifics that throw my page totally askew.
So, I am working on a new project, and I decided to start a website. I went with iPage, because it promised greatness, and that, cheaply. Here is where the confusion starts for me.
I used their Simple Scripts function, and it showed that I needed to use another sub-function, or somesuch. I chose WordPress, but, that was a blog sheet builder, and I couldn’t edit it properly. I could edit it about 1/2 way, but, the right column seemed to be all WordPress junk, and I couldn’t edit that out. A professional website can’t have “Hi, from WordPress! Get your hotblogs!” or whatever. So, I ditched that, and installed Joomla.
When I went to Joomla, I couldn’t understand jack. Their page had a lot of icons, and I couldn’t understand what the effect would be were I to utilize one of them. When I went in and tried to use some of them, I couldn’t ‘publish’ it, and when I clicked on ‘Save’ I don’t know where the element was saved to. I couldn’t even understand their nomenclature, and I had no idea what it all meant. I just wanted to grab some coding, publish, and leave it alone. Etc…
So, I just want a good page, that I can build to my specs. Meaning, I want to copy a good page, stuff my own content into it, load it up to File Manager, publish and collect big fat paychecks! Is there a place to find some some templates, that aren’t dependent on some mysterious source page, that I use? For free?
Thanks,
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ETA: Oh, I don’t need anything too exotic, like css or anything. I just want something that I can link up to some other pages.