[rlmorel]

I always appreciate your work. I readily admit I am occasionally guilty of overdoing it on the HTML front, but I find that in a medium in which context of communication can lead to troublesome or ineffective online dialogue, the ability to format with HTML can be very helpful...:)

[poconopundit]

Thanks, rlmorel.  What's insane is the amount of instruction and free code available online for every purpose you can imagine.

I swear by the W3Schools How to Snippets.  In fact, in my web publishing work, that's where I go to learn something new. And if you find some code there, you know it's been thoroughly tested across platforms.

And complementing that is a coding platform that produces applications for the desktop. So you can take your HTML and CSS frameworks, merge them with data tables, and post it all online.

For that purpose I use Visual Foxpro (VFP).  And even though Microsoft no longer supports VFP, there's a huge international online community of experts who can keep you out of trouble -- and who are happy to provide free advice.

I got started with VFP about 15 years ago, and I am constantly finding uses for it in my boutique publishing stuff.  There's even an outstanding series of low cost training videos by a very competent and pleasant-to-listen-to guy in Toronto.  Using that training course filled in the gaps on how to get rolling.