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Mary asks…
What is a good software for publishing a tutorial/manual/book online?
OK. Not trying to be obnoxious, but I really asked this question in a couple of different places and I am not finding an answer. People try to be helpful for which I am grateful but the give as solution for a different problem. Everybody thinks that I ma trying to design a fancy looking book or anything. Here I will try to explain -
I need software – as simple as possible and possibly free – with which software (php script/plug-in, whatever) I can publish a simple structured book like most online tutorials, manuals, guides are. They usually contain a structured, indented contents table/menu and next, previous, up hyperlinks to move around the pages. Here are very close examples of documents done that way. I just don’t know what software they use:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/…
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.fo…
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduc…
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/co…
http://www.w3schools.com/Xml/
http://classic.gimp.org/tut-patt2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:T…
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/css/_CLA…
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/p…
http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/tut/node…
- not all of these are good examples in terms of a good quality software but just an example of what kind of documentation structure I am looking for.
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Please do not put answers that the state that there is not answer (because questions rarely get more than one answer). I understand that with an HTML editor or a website development tool you can achieve the goal. I am looking for a “tool” specific to building a structured document. Where the writer is concentrated in entering the contents of the chapters and ordering them and the publishing and the links/navigation is done for them. Where they to not have to program in HTML every previous/next/up link on every page and if they have to change style or something to have to go back and re-program all thousands of pages already written.
Rick answers:
You’ve not got off to a good start because you’ve managed to chop off all but two of the URL’s.
As all of those pages are on the web they are either written in HTML or with a server side language like PHP or ASP to produce the HTML you see.
It IS possible to change the style of thousands of pages just by changing one simple file, that’s what CSS is used for.
If you are going to produce your tutorials like these sites then all you need is a HTML editor. Once the basic templates have been written it’s no harder to produce the pages than using a word processor – in fact it’s simpler because plain HTML and CSS does not use all the formatting that a word processor does.
Free WYSIWYG editors are Visual Web Developer Express 2008 – http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ or NVU – http://www.net2.com/nvu/ or Kompozer – http://kompozer.net/
Another way of doing what you want is to produce the documents in a word processor, convert them to PDFs and then upload those.
Richard asks…
Can somebody, one of you, contact me with help on building a website…?
I have a website I’m building. I’ve paid for a domain name, and am using the Geocities site to load files onto my own site. I’ve managed to create an ‘INDEX’ page for my website. I used microsoft word to create my page, and managed to load the page on my website. I can create as many pages as I want and load them onto the file manager.
My problem is I don’t know about subdomains, and creating links from one page to another. These tutorials seem to want me to use their page builder and their templates, which are all retarded. I just need help figuring out how to link all my own pages that I’ve built.
If there’s anyone out there that can contact me and send messages back and forth, could you please reply?
Rick answers:
You can email to me and send your index’s face to me, I can do this for you, but I think redirect the subdomain is more difficult than createpages.
And I think you can use some program to make indexes, such as Microsoft’s Frontpage , Acrobat’s Dreamweaver and so on
Betty asks…
Where can I go to learn how to do back end web design?
I already know a LOT of HTML and have been building websites since 1993. I have even sold a few, but I mainly donate them. As I do not want to be editing and updating the same websites every week forever, how do I go about setting up a website that someone else can edit easily without having to rely on me and my HTML and web design software knowledge?
I mainly need to know how to build something like the “Manage Link Gear” on HTMLgear.com and an end user updateable calendar. I also need to know how to do a message board of some sort, but that can wait as I can use free stuff for a while. Here is the one I am currently looking to add some of these back end options too: http://fbcommunitygarden.com/ This group needs a way to upload text and images to one page, update a calendar, a message board, and a user area.
This group needs to be able to change out pictures of animals and update a calendar on this site that I made as well: http://cfprescue.com/
I know about HTMLgear and other similar sites, but I want to learn how to do these things myself so the sites do not have to link to their site and I can customize it more and not have adds on it. Is there a particular programming language or languages that I should learn? If so, are there free tutorials online? I won’t have any money until my husband gets another job, but when I do, are there classes at a community college for the programming side of it? If so, what are they usually called? I live in the Dallas area.
bonus points go to – Although, I do not need this right now… I would also like to learn how to do databases. That might not even be the right term. I want to be able to put all of my images online and search for them something like istockphoto.com only just for my photos as I have a lot. I also want to learn how to allow users to make their own user names to log in and enter in their volunteer hours, etc.
Rick answers:
You probably need to learn either ASP or PHP. Both are fairly hefty languages capable of database integration and whole bunch more. ASP is similar to Visual Basic and pretty easy to learn.
ASP is supported by Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer which you can get as a free download from http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/
PHP is good as well and well supported. Some free hosts offer it so learning and running it shouldn’t be much of a problem. See http://www.free-webhosts.com/ for hosts that offer it.
THe PHP community has provided all sorts of free, open source applications that you can utilize, including shopping carts, image galleries and forums. Being open source you can adapt them to a wide range of situations rather than have to build entire applications yourself.
Another popular platform and growing all the time recently is SharePoint, but that is probably a bit more specialized than you want to get.
As to tutorials, both ASP and PHP have loads of resources available. However you learn the languages there are always plenty of people to give a helping hand and being net savvy you can probably find your own tutorials.
Http://www.google.com/search?q=ASP+developer+forum
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=php+developer+forum
Ken asks…
Any Web Site that explain linking of ASp.Net with My SQl?
I want to Built a simple ASP.net form and want to Use “MySQl” as back-end database. Any tutorial ,Online example or any think that give me little Idea or Template or Example.
Rick answers:
Here you go:
http://aspnet101.com/aspnet101/tutorials.aspx?id=39
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