A Conversation with Elizabeth
2008
Questions and Hello

From:          Larry
To:            Elizabeth
Date:          Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:07:24 -0500
Subject:       Web Design
 
Elizabeth,
 
    Well HTML is the basic language for web page design and is simple enough but of course it’s become a lot more complicated with Frames, CSS and XML to name a few enhancements.  The basic web design tools try to make it a lot simpler and take care of a lot of the basic design work but, in the end, to get a nice looking page it takes editing directly the HTML, CSS, etc.    Professional web designers seem to favor Adobe Dreamweaver for page layout but this is in part due to the extensive set of associated tools that Adobe has to go with it.   See http://www.adobe.com/    The full set of Adobe tools cost over $1500.   For my web site I use Microsoft Expression Web which is by some rated higher then Dreamweaver but it doesn’t have the full set of tools like Adobe does so you have to get other programs for such things as image editing.    Expression Web is around $250.
 
  As far as learning here are a lot of online free tutorials for the basics like HTML, CSS.   There are DVD tutorials for Dreamweaver and Expression Web. 
 
  My record to CD project is still underway.  It works quite well but takes a long time since you have to listen to every record and then convert and save it to CD.  I also save the music files to my iPod.    I bought a record player that had the computer interface built in and came with the software for around $175.   I seldom listen to CDs anymore since I loaded all my CDs onto my IPod.  Quite cool.
 
  I’m doing well, still working at AOL but never sure for how much longer.     It’s good to hear from you.  Hope you are also doing well.
 
Larry

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