As far as the Missing Manuals website, what a great idea! It looks very basic, but I think that's helpful so that the user doesn't feel intimidated. The content looks very helpful. I will definitely have to come back to this as I get more into the actual work of creating the website. Nvu I already looked at and spent a little time with a few days ago, just playing around. So far I feel more comfortable with it than Dreamweaver, but I want to give both of them a real try before I decide which to stick with. Kompozer and gimp did not really appeal to me. I did not like their colors and there was really nothing to draw me in. Once I've spent some time with Dreamweaver and Nvu, I will come back and look these websites and the software over again. Right now, it's like asking me to correct the grammar in a foreign language I'm not familiar with!
The Smashing Magazine website was really overwhelming with so much stuff! I wish I had all day to explore it. Maybe I can spend more time with it while I'm on the desk at work. It just seems like a really dense website -- although it all looks very helpful. The fact that they have all their post in alphabetical order is very helpful. It's hard to believe there are so many tutorials! I feel so unknowledgeable! I guess that's why I'm taking the class.
My comment about the 2 advanced.com website is: Omy god! It's absolutely fascinating, but I had a hard time figuring out what the purpose was. It almost looked like a game. It was really cool how the links opened, but it seems the real purpose was to impress clients who want a really technologically advanced website. It certainly impressed me, although it took me awhile to figure out what the real purpose was.
The famous website awards looks like it has a lot to look at. I just spent about 15 minutes and I really could spend hours. I will have to come back to this one also. Similarly, I will have to come back to the Web Pages that Suck website. Once I get a little further into my design -- actually, into thinking about my design at all, which I have not, I will have to come back here for a refresher about what not to do. All, in all, a lot of websites to look at and so much information it feels quite overwhelming.
As far as the blogs are concerned, I tried out WordPress and thought I would like that one the best because so many of my favorite bloggers use it. However, once I tried Blogger, I found I liked it much better. I just found it much easier to use. So here I am. I really want to play around with changing designs, colors, etc. -- the look and feel of the blog, but I just haven't had that much time to play around lately. I have to keep reminding myself that substance is more important right now. Get the substance down, then I can play. The substance needs to drive the aesthetics, not the other way around. At least, this is true for me. I'm also one of those people who doesn't usually know how they want something to look unless I see it first. So I'll have to try out most of the options before I get a sense of what I like. I looked at Zoho Writer also, just to see what it was. It actually looks like much more of a blog. I may come back and give the word processing option a try. The NYT article was intriguing and certainly excellent praise. But Blogger had me at hello. It's hard to explain it.
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