In article <MP************************@news.cox.net>,
mr*****@cox.net (Mike Copeland) wrote:
I am contemplating the creation of a personal family "newsletter" Web
site - one that will be ordered by yearly events within my family. To
save myself a lot of trial and error, I wonder if there is any
"preferred" template for such a site.
No, there is no preferred template.
My main concern is how to display
textual narrative (not multi-column), and I want to insert pictures at
various places. Any thoughts? TIA
An excellent HTML element to use for textual narrative (which I take to
mean a set of words that forms sentences that describe things in this or
some other world) is the paragraph element, P. You can take advantage of
the many levels of heading elements too, H1, H2, H3 etc. If you use just
these two things for text, you will do very well indeed and neither
confuse yourself nor others.
As for how to insert pictures. May I suggest simply floating them within
the paragraphs. There are no rules for whether to float left or right
but you have to choose one or the other.
<http://netweaver.com.au/alt/floatleftFloatright.html>
You might consider to prepare pics that go on the left to "face" into
the right, rather than to be "going off" or "facing off" the page.
<http://netweaver.com.au/alt/inwards.html>
Your navigation system might well be an HTML list element and consist of
dates and/or event types.
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dorayme
