Coding web pages begins here | Still Plugging Away

Hi. I'm Steve Comstock and I'm the founder of "Still Plugging Away", a sole proprietorship.

papers:
The Zen of Web Coding
The Joy of Coding
Non-Programmer's Guide

Some people putter in their garden.

Others putter in their garage, their basement, their workshop or their studio.

They hone their skills and create fine pieces of art or craft.

I putter on my computer. I hone my skills and create web pages.

Try this approach and see if it satisfies creative needs you have.

Did you know that you can build an entire website on your personal computer? Of course, no one but you can see it, but that might be just what you want:

You can build pages with links to your favorite websites or just in your local website:
Build a photo album - or many albums from trips or family activities:
And if you choose, you can easily migrate your local website to a server based system
Plus, there are some downsides to a local website - for example there is no support for:
- Files
- Databases
- Server Side Includes

Then if you need / want to show your website to someone else, you can put the whole site on a thumb drive and send that to someone, so they can see it also.

Of course, you may want to actually build a website on the internet - giving you a wider audience. Maybe to support

a small business
a hobby
a non-profit organization
sharing pictures with family, outside of social media (goodbye Facebook)

I have put together an online course on how to create web pages / sites using only free and simple tools. It assumes you have some familiarity with how to use basic Windows apps, but if you are not comfortable with those, I have a pre-requisite course that can improve your skills working with Windows.

These courses are cheap very inexpensive (USD10 for the Windows course, USD20 for the web coding course).

Here are some links to sample solutions of a few of the lab exercises our students work on in the web coding course. The point is to demonstrate skills you will have after taking our course on web development:

Create text pages that can support international characters (Lesson 2)
Include images that have areas sensitive to mouse clicks (Lesson 11)
Include video and audio files (Lesson 12)
Create pages that respond to user mouse clicks (Lesson 16)
Dynamically build a list, then process the list (Lesson 18)
Display a table, then dynamically update it on request (Lesson 22)
Create a web photo album (Lesson 22)

For all the details, visit StillPluggingAway.com.