Change the look
With Rick's patient help I translated my basic designs into pages and templates and created my first mock-up of the site – about five or six pages in all – and started experimenting with the various elements such as internal page links, external links, menus, type-faces and colours, pictures and graphics.
And I was now seeing why Namo WebEditor is so popular – it's claimed to have over two million users. What it does is make it relatively easy for novices to create reasonable sites from scratch, without ever having to look at a single line of HTML code – unless they really want to.
But just when I was getting all cocky about my knew-found web skills, my partner in the venture decided to drop out because of work pressures. This was a blow as it meant that as well as building daytripstoeurope, I now had to research and write the content and provide the photography.
This looked like it was going to be a lot of work.
In addition to all the things you'd expect from a travel guide – information on journey times, local transport, places to eat and drink, top sights, etc – there were also going to be hundreds of links. I wanted to include everything from timetables and wine and food guides to virtual tours, webcams, and full-screen panoramas.
Namo WebEditor 6
in site-map view (click for larger image)
Each city guide took about two to three weeks to complete and that doesn't include visiting the city and checking everything out and photographing it. Nor does it include all the problems that had to be dealt with along the way...
