I needed a new webpage. I mean really, really needed a new one. I can't even remember when I last had one, or what it looked like. Most of my webpages have been uh... marginal. I'm really not any good at HTML.
I'd built a page on Squidoo, but I was never really happy with that one, since it's not really a webpage, it's a lens - and though I like their products for building lenses (think "fan pages" or "product pages,) I don't like their ads.
I wanted my own webpage on Delphi again, in my own space, where I can control everything.
Somewhere this weekend I ran across a webpage template builder. You select all your elements online, then download the finished design. Then all you have to do is change your content. They don't have a huge selection of designs, but it's easy to work with, and you do have full control over colors and fonts, and it's done with a style sheet, so you can easily make other pages as well.
It's also free as long as you carry this statement in the footer: "Web template created with
doTemplate "
I like how it
turned out. It's not fancy, it's not flashy, and it's not quite finished yet, but it integrates nicely with my profile & journal, and I can add a blog later on by connecting either my Delphi blog, or one from another source. I hate the thought of using another source, because I really do like Delphi's blog product. It's far easier to use and control than Blogger or Word Press. Faster, too. You know me, I'm all Delphi, all the time, but I made the mistake long ago of pigeon-holing my blog by giving it the webtag
opolls. Owell. My poll forum was what I was into at the time, what can I say?
Anyway, my new webpage does what I need for it to do, which is to give a little intro to me, and to link to my forums and provide Twitter info - both for people from Twitter to check me out on Delphi, and for Delphi folks to check me out on Twitter. By connecting to my splash page instead of directly to my astronomy forum, I hope I can get some interest in the other forums as well.
Now I just need to figure out how to make the third column stick to the top of the page on the
kiosk page I was trying to make... Ye gods, I hate HTML.