HTML and Web Design

A reader of my book Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages writes and asks:

“I’ve been looking all over the internet to find an average price for making a website and I can’t fine a good estimate on the going rate. If you could point me in the right direction that would be great. After reading your book (creating cool HTML 4 web pages) and taking some computer classes I’ve now got my CIW certificate and am starting to build my first website for a client, but I don’t know how much to charge!”

I’ll resist saying that this is the question of the ages in the world of computing, but it is definitely going to be a tough one to answer…

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A reader writers:

“I’m trying to create a guestbook using the forms and CGI’s, but I’m stuck as to how to link the form to the server. The sign page is at <guestadd.html> and I would like the view page to be at <guestbook.html>. What I did was use a somewhat template form of guestbook provided by our web host, and, after editing the sign page (new additions are “Current Division” and “Mu Alpha Theta Chapter”), wanted the additions to appear on guestbook.html, but I don’t know how to do that…”

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A reader asks:

How do you think that i could make a login page with a password using CGI script?

There are two main ways to create a password-protected Web area…

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The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Dynamic HTML. The problem is, you’re not really up to speed. Maybe it’s been a while since you worked with JavaScript or cascading style sheets. Or maybe you just like a challenge!

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The fifth edition of an international best-seller, Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages (the second edition of “HTML 4” is even updated for HTML 4.01) lets anyone learn how to use free and simple tools to create attractive and sophisticated Web pages, then how to publish and publicize them.

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