If you've downloaded and unzipped the Virginbuild zip you should, by now, have some idea of how to write simple HTML pages and you will have found that there's relatively nothing to it. Now is the time to be brave and unzip the simplesite.zip. In this zip file I've put together a fairly straightforward site that comprises two very useful elements.
The first is Frames, i.e. the site is framed which allows your readers to continually refer back to which ever part of the site they want to be in by using the menu on the left hand side of the framed index.html page which stays constantly in their browser's window. This means that the look of the site is, or should be, constant which makes for a generally simpler viewing experience for your hard earned visitors whose attention span is notoriously short.
The second is the use of a simple Cascading Style Sheet. The beauty of this is that, should you suddenly decide, having spent days on the layout of your precious site, that the background colour isn't quite how you'd like it; instead of having to go through every single document and change the background color tag in the body section of the html, you simply go to the basic.css document and edit it from there, thereby magically changing the look of your whole site in one go. Believe me this is a tremendous time saver,speaking as one who has, in the past, spent, literally, a week, changing from one font to another in each and every page; only to decide at the end that it wasn't quite what I wanted and start all over again!!
You'll have noticed that, by default, the font (aerial) and font colour (blue) and background colour (pale yellow) are the same as this site (currently, I might well change my mind soon).
If you decide you don't like them, open the basic.css document and edit them a