Stephen Monrad

I have been working on setting up my website and am finding it to be very tedious. It’s dificult to get spacing and page layout to look nice.

I am trying to create a navigation pane that has links that are indented to show that they belong to the category above. As far as I can tell, there isn’t an easy way to do this. I have resorted to using a command   that inserts a space that won’t collapse. I the repeat the command for as many spaces as I need to get the indent I want. Needless to say, my HTML is now littered with &nbsp’s.

I should probably be using a content management system of some sort. I am afraid to do this because I have read that content management systems can mess up search engines. The spider programs that search engines send out looking for new sites have trouble with dynamic content on sites. So, instead of handling formatting behind the scenes, I have to work on format for each and every page I produce.

Now, while this is painful and slow, I am perhaps learning something through the process. Understanding how HTML works is probably a good thing. I have a lot more respect now for web designers who can produce complex user friendly websites.