TOPIC: How do you guys do it?

Thanks John.  I have heard about patience.  Something doctors have isn't it?
You are right about the helpfulness of the people here.  I have not noticed one person who is snarly or miserable.  Just the same, I do feel kind of silly having to come with questions all the time. 

I try to be as snarly and cranky as possible, I guess I need to try harder.

Bert/Randy:

Dom is right. There is so much to learn by reading thru other's questions and answers. You will get there, be persistent. I wiped out the better part of my Home Page one afternoon, got kinda snarly like Mike, and it took about three hours to rebuild, but it was a better page when I was done (and it still could use some more work). I suspect that you will have bigger challenges in your business than building your website.

John

Bert, if you search some of the old threads in the design or tutorial threads you will see that a lot of had a hard time getting going as well. Trust me, a few weeks or a month from now, you will look at some of the things you ask and laugh. But, as with everything in life, you don't know until you ask. Keep asking away, and everyone here will help out.

One big tip. Do not paste content from Word without clicking on the Paste fro m Word button and checking both boxes! Also when you're editing the text , highlight it all and set the format to Normal (DIV) which will help with the fonts looking right.

Another tip. Only focus on content first. Fill out the pages that are there, you'll pick up bits as you go along which will help you later when you go to be more detailed.

OK boys I am gonna chime in.  I am very computer literate and a programming whiz for the most part.  Working with the base HTML on the sites can be very hard at times.  It takes a lot of tinkering.  Even with tonnes of experience you can have problems.  Nothing is perfect we should all know that being home inspectors.  You have to look at it as a learning experience.  I was fortunate enough to be the first computer generation.  You guys are probably all playing catch up. 

Just think of it this way guys each element you put in your websites can be broken down into a few different elements.  This is what I mean.  An image tag has attributes like width, height, name, id, src, and such that can be changed.  Most HTML is like this.  If you want a solid width for something like a table you can increase the width and height within a certain range like Dom said some of these are set so you cannot go more than them. 

Just keep this in mind when you get frustrated.  One other tip for you guys is if you get frustrated working with it get up and leave the computer for awhile.  If you get angry you cannot see the proper solution.

I had troubles when I started and still do, my biggest problem was not watching the tutorials and just wanting to get it done. 

I began to figure it out and I know I can bother Dom if I have questions, guys around here are willing to help out.

The SEO is most important and is an area I need to get back and improve on. Just get to busy and lazy.

Watching the tutorials, read the threads and ask the guys. Lots of good people here.

Dom, Ian, were is John Sopher and lots of other guys and gals.

Sometimes I forget to thank everyone, so thanks everybody!!