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**draggar** · 05-04-2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MAllie

Thanks again, draggar. Yes, those books are very reasonably priced and certainly make the learning curve appear more attractive.

I will save your list for easy access in the future but, as I'm a terrible non-techie, it may be some time till I am past the first one.

I only found the more advanced books techie, the beginner books (most of them) are not too technical involved.

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Thanks to you all for your very useful comments. If there's ever anything I can do for you, please feel free to pm me. As a writer (fiction) my skills are mainly in that area, but I'll be glad to run an eye over any text you're ever unsure about, perhaps for a website or blog

I used to write fantasy, but that was years ago. I just write now what's on my mind and if anyhting interesting happened over the course of the past few days.

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By the way, draggar, what happened to your blog? When I tried to find it I couldn't. If it's still active, could you post the link?

I just checked, it's still there (link is in my signature or were you going to draggar.net?).

**MainstreamDomains** · 05-05-2008, 01:28 AM

starting from scratch is best IMO

**maregee** · 05-05-2008, 07:02 AM

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y u guys feel sitebuilders are not good.........i use swsoft one and you can see my website

That's a perfect example of what's not to love about sitebuilders ...

On the surface, it looks OK. Underneath, the code is garbage! The markup is invalid, has a lot of useless, excess code, uses deprecated elements ... table-based layout (not a showstopper in itself, but combined with the other problems ...).

Pretty typical "sitebuilder" code.

**draggar** · 05-05-2008, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by MainstreamDomains

starting from scratch is best IMO

That is the best option if you have the knowledge.

**accomatic** · 05-05-2008, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by maregee

That's a perfect example of what's not to love about sitebuilders ...

On the surface, it looks OK. Underneath, the code is garbage! The markup is invalid, has a lot of useless, excess code, uses deprecated elements ... table-based layout (not a showstopper in itself, but combined with the other problems ...).

Pretty typical "sitebuilder" code.

Exactly!

And there's another problem with sitebuilders: overused templates. Google has decent tools to analyze not just the content, but also markup similarities, and when it comes over a template used on thousands junky websites it definately won't rank it high or will even drop it off its index.