Building the front page

I did a very pleasing few hours work this morning on my new journalism news site.

I'm building the front page up, experimenting with layout, tables, nested tables etc.

I also used Photoshop to reduce the size of some pix and then insert them into a nested page. I also referred to a book called Dreamweaver: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland which I found very useful indeed.

Once I have the front page complete I will set up links and then use the template I've set up to place text on the page.

When this happens I can see the strengths and weaknesses of the site and really road test it.

If I can keep on chugging away, learning small things every day, I will become adept at Dreamweaver soon and I will have built a news site that will rival most - that's the dream, distant though it may be now. Still got a lot to learn, but I'm having fun doing it.

Things to understand: the Image Placeholder; locking the size of tables; ensuring that I don't have to keep altering the text style each time I type something...amongst other things.