scott wrote:
>> [As an aside... _my_ Word documents *still* look like this! :-P I 
>> don't know what's different about yours.]
> 
> Well they have diagrams, photos, headers and footers, page numbers etc.

OK, well mind have headers and footers for the document title and page 
number, yes. There's usually not much call for anything else though. (I 
write dull procedure documents, remember?)

>>> Learn about the div tag and how to set the location, size, colour, 
>>> borders, margins etc for it.
>>
>> Or, perhaps more usefully, figure out how this is useful for something?
> 
> Umm, you need to be creative.

Yes. This is where I fail. At almost everything there is.

I can look at something and go "hey, that's cool". I can attempt to copy 
it, sometimes successfully. But I am hopeless at originallity. That's 
why I can't write stories, compose music, render interesting images, or 
produce a feature-length animated film. It's also partly why I can't 
build an interesting website...

...but the main reason is, I have *no idea* how to chop an image up into 
little pieces, put them onto a web server, and switch then back together 
with HTML and CSS so that the text sits nicely over the top. O_O

> using div and its friends just gives you 
> the tools to make a nice looking page, doesn't automatically do it for 
> you. Start off with just placing a few boxes around and getting the feel 
> for how it works.  Get a book on CSS or just google some tutorials.  Or 
> if you're hardcore just read the HTML 4 reference and work everything 
> out :-)

Bah. I've already read the HTML 4 spec. A long time ago. XHTML is the 
current technology, yes? I've also read the various CSS specs. [And then 
been sorely dissapointed that most of it isn't supported by any known 
browser yet...]

>>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/
>>
>> Yes. And I'm not sure I really like it that much. (And you *certainly* 
>> couldn't describe it as being pretty.)
> 
> Agreed, although it depends what comes up on your front page :-)

Uh... the same as everybody else? (It's not like I'm logged in...)

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