The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101807   Message #2056861
Posted By: Crane Driver
20-May-07 - 04:51 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Your own website?
Subject: RE: Tech: Your own website?
Actually, another silly outburst from Gargle doesn't worry me a bit - it's quite amusing when his medication fails - he's probaly adjusting the dosages himself.
Like Robin, I see no reason to re-invent the wheel - I'd rather spend my time playing music than coding a website in HTML.
I can use HTML, and in fact I did use it on the Songbook  pages of the website - the package allows you to get in and adjust the code if you need to. The only problem I encountered, in fact, was that 'carriage return' inserted a <P> tag instead of <BR>, which is fine if you're writing paragaphs of text which you want to set off with a double line break. However, this isn't appropriate for song lyrics, and I had to get in there and replace the <P> tags with <BR> ones to get the page to look right.

All without the help of evening classes for senior citizens!

Of course those who are happy to code their own site will go ahead and do so (probably have done). If my thread here encourages someone who was reluctant or not confident enough to give it a go, I don't see that as a Bad Thing. I can imagine Gargle's ancestors sitting in their cave casting scorn on those who used this new-fangled wheel thing instead of carrying everything on their own backs, but that's why he's an evolutionary dead-end.

Cheers all,

Andrew