This is the last tutorial in the Basic Nvu Tutorials series. Publishing has actually been covered in the first tutorial but, for the sake of completeness, I’ve decided to add another tutorial on publishing the completed web page. If you missed the previous tutorials in this series, please go back and watch them first:

Now we’re on to our second website type in the Different Types of Website Series. The first type was a mini site. Today, we’re moving on to blogs.

What are blogs?

In the past few years, blogs have evolved so much that I’m actually finding it hard to define what it really is. Also known as weblogs, blogs may be hard to describe but easy to recognize. A blog can be recognized by the way its content is organized. You will notice that new content are displayed at the top. So, as new content is added the old ones will move down. Very much like what you see on the WebBriefcase’s blog homepage.

This tutorial will teach you how to use images in your web pages. We’ve already dealt with this quickly in the Nvu Tutorial 2 , when we were creating a template. If you missed the previous tutorials in this series, please go back and watch them first:

• Nvu Tutorial 1:

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This tutorial will teach you how to create web pages from the template you created in the previous tutorial. If you missed tutorial 1 and 2 please go back and watch it first:

• Nvu Tutorial 1: Getting started - Video
• Nvu Tutorial 2: Creating a template - Video

You will notice that the only thing that is different in the web page is the content. Everything else remains the same.

Photo credit: Santiago Cornejo

This is the first website type in the Different Types of Website Series.

What are mini sites?

A mini site is simply a one- to three-page website. Maybe 5 pages at most. Actually, technically, a one page website would be more of a micro site but for the sake of practicality, I’m going to include it as a mini site. The tools you need to create both are pretty much the same.

This tutorial will teach you how to create templates with Nvu. If you missed tutorial 1, please go back and read it first:

• Nvu Tutorial 1: Getting started - Video

Using a template can greatly reduce your web building time. When you create your template, you have to first figure out which parts of the web page will be reused throughout your site. This tutorial will teach you how to create templates with Nvu. Using a template can greatly reduce your web building time. When you create your template, you have to first figure out which parts of a web page will be reused throughout your site. Common things to include in your template would be:

Okay, I’ve finally finished a series of Nvu tutorials if you’d like to use Nvu to create your next web site. Enjoy and feel free to leave your comments so I can further improve them.

Quite awhile ago, I released a series of Nvu tutorials. For the life of me, I can’t find them anywhere on the blog. I realize that I’ve been moving from one script to another, but to completely ‘lose’ a set of tutorials is beyond me. So, I’ve dugged up my …

Many newbies get confused about the different types of websites that they can make. In fact, most don’t even know there are different types of websites. Here’s a question that I often get from my subscribers.

What is the difference between a website, minisite and blog. What are their advantages/disadvantages.As a beginner what would you recommend I start off with?

Today, I’m just going to cover briefly on what type of sites are available out there and in the next few days I’ll go through the whats and whys of the more popular types.

Anybody who knows me knows that “simple” and “fluff free” is my mantra. I preach simplicity any opportunity I get. Why have 3 columns on your webpage when you can have 2 and why 2 when 1 will do the job. I was surfing today and found these posts of …

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