Some Advice/Help with my Website

[Failed_Hero]

I have building my infinitysedge site for about a month strong, and I have several file cards ready in a pre-made table.  the table insert just fine in publisher but when I view it as a web page my table horizontals basically disappear causing paragraphs to run on in a single line instead of formating properly.  I have tried all I know to do so I am hoping someone hear may have some more expertise.  if anyone has any ideas please let me know, I'm kinda stuck until I can figure out with this isn't working

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[Epimethee]

The basic problem is that Microsoft's non-professional Web editors (haven't heard of the Expression pro lineup) don't create standard-compliant code. At. All. I don't know if things improved with Word 2007, but for HTML pages produced by the 2003 version, I needed to remove ~95% of the code, which is poorly-implemented proprietary crap.

So the best would be to get a real standard-compliant HTML editor; the WYSIWYG standard, Dreamweaver, isn't cheap, however.  For simple layouts like the one above, coding by hand would be reasonably easy to learn, though.

Also, you may try a Word cleaner, such as http://www.textism.com/wordcleaner/

[randyripoff]

What Epimethee said.  I'm pretty down on just about every WYSIWYG editor out there.  HTML isn't hard to learn at all.  There are lots of sites out there like HTMLgoodies that can teach you the basics, including creating tables.

[GogglesPizanno]

Ditto what they said above. Once you get the basics of HTML you will find that hand coding can be done a lot faster and cleaner than a WYSIWYG.

If you are looking to stay WYSIWYG without the cost of something like dreamweaver you might look at Kompozer (free and open source):

http://www.kompozer.net/

The other option if you are feeling adventurous (and your host supports it) is to maybe try some kind of CMS system (Joomla, Drupal, wordpress etc...) The initial set up is more complex, but if you are going to be doing any kind of updating on a regular basis, and aren't looking to do a lot of custom designed pages, it might be worthwhile.

[Lunarman]

I don't know if you've ever done coding before, but if you havn't HTML is a really good place to start. When I learnt it my 10 year old sister nab my book and a month later she was better than me, especially at CSS. Anyway if you do decide to do that, a book I can recommend is HTML for the world wide web by Dori Smith I think it's called a 'visual quickstart guide'.

Good luck :)