The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28515   Message #356016
Posted By: Jon Freeman
12-Dec-00 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: Tech: website design for beginners?
Subject: RE: Help: website design for beginners?
Penny, HTML is HTML so you should be able to set up your design on anything. Some WebSpace providers such as Tripod do provide their own on-line design tools but I am not aware of any that don't provide a method of uploading your own files. Similarly Tripod, for example, provides it's own system for uploading files but also alows normal FTP transfer.

One pitfall I do remember someone in Mudcat commenting on that Windows is case insensitive, and allows certain characters that Unix does not allow. Unix (or perhaps operating systems are case sensitve and your Web space provider may well be using this operating system. The safest bet is too stick with Alpha-numeric characters and the underscore character (not a space) and to be consistent with capitalisation on your page names and hyperlinks. That way, you should have something that is guaranteed to upload and you won't have the frustration of going back to check links.

Jon