OT: Setting up a web page

[benchtester]

Re: OT: Setting up a web page

http://www.wix.com/create/website

http://www.webstarts.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.hipero.com/

http://www.webserve.ca/websitesolutions/websitebuilder/

Weebly is about a simple as they come, although the free sites are a bit limited at times. It's fun to get a taste of having a web page, and it can be used for hosting images for posting on threads. One warning, weebly lets you create two domain names for free, but I haven't figured out how to delete one. I guess you only get two trys.:rolleyes: Admittedly the "Pro" service is pretty inexpensive.

For blogging, I also took the low effort approach of using the TechTalk blog. I hope more people start using it.

P.S. I am quite embarrassed by the condition (work in progress), but mine is ericedwards.weebly.com (no www.)

[ckmoore]

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Another alternative is to start a "blog". This requires no additional software beyond what you already use (Browser, some sort of basic photo manipulation software).

+1 for blog...

[davepellegrene]

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Dreamweaver is indeed high quality. It's what I use to maintain my office's website.

I usually design a page (graphically) in photoshop, and then convert it to web format using appropriate tabular/layer format. The suggestions above are good for beginners - I'm no expert, but man are there a lot of rules and format constraints to generate a website that's both stylish and functional.

Yeah, I'm starting to sway towards paying my son to build one for me. I have a hard time not screwing up my Microsoft Office spread sheets. I think my spare time is going to be better spent doing things I enjoy. Like catching my MDF test box on fire heating it up!

[kornphlake]

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I don't currently have a website, when I did it looked really lame and took way too much effort to update, but that was 2001. If I were to start a new website I'd look at blogging software, Wordpress seems to be one of the best right now and it's free to download or you can use the online editor, they'll give you free hosting too, but the URL will be something like www.wordpress.com/dave'sspeakersite. It lets you design your site from a template and there are hundreds of templates to choose from, then you add customizations from there. The actual content of a blog is added very much the same way you add a post in this forum, you just type it in, add pictures and hit submit.

[MSaturn]

Re: OT: Setting up a web page

Dreamweaver is indeed high quality. It's what I use to maintain my office's website.

I usually design a page (graphically) in photoshop, and then convert it to web format using appropriate tabular/layer format. The suggestions above are good for beginners - I'm no expert, but man are there a lot of rules and format constraints to generate a website that's both stylish and functional.

[davepellegrene]

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http://www.wix.com/create/website

http://www.webstarts.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.hipero.com/

http://www.webserve.ca/websitesolutions/websitebuilder/

Thanks Gowa, Looks like I opened another can of worms. ( banging head on desk).

[gowa]

Re: OT: Setting up a web page

http://www.wix.com/create/website

http://www.webstarts.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.hipero.com/

http://www.webserve.ca/websitesolutions/websitebuilder/

[mgrabow]

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Magic....

I used photoshop CS4 to do mine... Dreamweaver is probably better, but since I already had an $800 program, I figured, I would make it work...


If you need help building a bew page, Youtube has great tutorial on just about every application...

[johnnyrichards]

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I opened Publication2, clicked on a template, it loads the templete. My company name is already filled in. How on earth did it know my company name!
Dave

Office is kind of cool for a number of reasons

[davepellegrene]

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Dreamweaver is nice Dave, but if you just want a simple page to showcase pictures and projects, MS Office is quite capable and it looks like you already have it on your PC. Absolutely no need to spend money on additional software, especially professional design software which runs in the hundreds of dollars.

Another alternative is to start a "blog". This requires no additional software beyond what you already use (Browser, some sort of basic photo manipulation software).

I opened Publication2, clicked on a template, it loads the templete. My company name is already filled in. How on earth did it know my company name!
Dave

[johnnyrichards]

Re: OT: Setting up a web page

Dreamweaver is nice Dave, but if you just want a simple page to showcase pictures and projects, MS Office is quite capable and it looks like you already have it on your PC. Absolutely no need to spend money on additional software, especially professional design software which runs in the hundreds of dollars.

Another alternative is to start a "blog". This requires no additional software beyond what you already use (Browser, some sort of basic photo manipulation software).

[davepellegrene]

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FTP = File Transfer Protocol
The best software for building web pages is Dreamweaver.

You might enjoy this site, lots of very good easy to understand information.
http://www.w3.org/

My son suggested Dreamweaver from Adobe. That's when I decided I was in over my head and posted here. I will check out the link you posted thanks.

[Æ]

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Johnny your killing me! Whats FTP software.
Thats the site my son sent me to. He didn't know much about it just said he's heard other people talk about it. I will check it out a little closer.
Dave

FTP = File Transfer Protocol
The best software for building web pages is Dreamweaver.

You might enjoy this site, lots of very good easy to understand information.

http://www.w3.org/

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

[davepellegrene]

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sorry, I forgot. ms publisher has a wizard...

Just checked I do have it. Thanks I will see what kind of damage I can do with it.

[mgrabow]

Re: OT: Setting up a web page

sorry, I forgot. ms publisher has a wizard...