General advice about HTML needed please

[Amiduffer]

Hi all.

I'm setting up a webpage, and its my first time to try! I'm using plain HTML and not using any WYSIWYG word processors, but making it from scratch so I can get "my hands dirty" so to speak and get comfortable with coding webpages.

The page will mostly be names of performers and a list of the songs they sing with links to digitized MPG video files. Currently the file names look like this: RM HJohnson TakeMyMotherHome.MPG because it looked better on my PC. For the purposes of them being on the web, will I have to use _ or - or remove the spaces in the file name when I link them from the page or are they fine as they are? Thanks.

[Amiduffer]

I just eliminated the spaces, just for convenience sake.

Take a look, My first designed webpage  :-D

[Amiduffer]

What websites have you designed?

[Amiduffer]

adz wrote:
Just took a quick peek as your code and you seem to, in some places, have used a

when you should have used a

. Might cause you some grief further down the track. As for the site, a little bit of CSS could help you clean it up and make it easier to change later. You could also use PHP to read the contents of certain directories and create the links automatically for you. Good luck and most of all, have fun :-)

Thank you for pointing that out. I'm probably getting that by carelessly using copy and paste.

Only internal stuff actually. I used to design web apps for the company I worked for, and I wrote everything in PHP using notepad. I stopped doing that when I realised it is very, very boring.

 :lol:

A good start. Only error I noted is the word video's used for the plural. It should be videos. Spelling and punctuation on webpages must be perfect.

Whoops, thanks for the correction.  :oops:

[Amiduffer]

I object! My site has no static! It is 100% guaranteed static free. Lots of content too.

[Amiduffer]

Hello everyone.

I've got most of the site finished as far as uploading most of the content that I have on hand, somewhat. However, there's a lot I still want to change and need some advice.

I plan on getting a better PC in the future in order to make better digitized video from these old VHS tapes. My P3 can only handle the lowest level MPG which isn't that good. Also, I want to change the format of the site, so that you have a choice of the way it is currently, and another site that will be formated around the way the concert performances happened in the order that they happened, and my question is, is there some way to set up a button, in order to play a sequence of videos? The other choice is to put the concert together in one big file, cutting out all the intermission time, performers going off stage, etc. which would mean a pretty big file.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.