I have adobe GoLive for building a website. Anyone reccomend this program or any other good programs to build websites? ANy good books on the subject too? I know little about web language, but I am good with graphics.
God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Apr 15 2005 : 9:14AM
Assuming you are going to need a database since your other post was asking about selling things, I would suggest using PHP/MySQL. I learned the language pretty in-depth and quickly, but I had a C/C++ background which is what PHP is basically.
When I first built my site I used MS Front page - LOL Last time I recoded my site, I used NotePad and Adobe PhotoShop
I recommend using a tool like Dreamweaver or Homesite as a text editor. I personally use Homesite. I only use it as a text editor but it does have other features some people might like.
FrontPage is garbage. Stay away from it if you can.
Don't bother looking at Frontpage, Gemologist, it produces crappy HTML which you do not want to put on your website. A colleague of mine used it once to produce a page which consisted of just one image with two links in it and it was unusable, it literally takes more time to clean up Frontpage code than to write it from scratch in a texteditor.
Howdy Gemoligist - and howdy to all. This here's my first post and I thought it might be a good thing to start by helping others before I ask favors for myself. I know I'll be hanging here in the Techie section the most.
I'm a newbie web designer and happily using Dreamweaver as some have suggested. But don't get it alone. Get the bundle with Fireworks (layout program) and the rest of the Macromedia tool palette (which incidentally was just revised to CS2). If you're going to present video on your site make sure you get the Flash Pro version pack also. (Also, incidentally, Adobe just bought out Macromedia - so things will get even easier to use in this world....) I also suggest taking a cheap class somehwere local that will allow you to save HUGE by enabling you to buy the software at Education prices.
For books, check out the Visual Quickstart Guides as good reference material. Lynda Weinman also makes really good hands-on type book instruction too. Hope that helped.
God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Apr 22 2005 : 10:10AM
Ummm HTML is a product of using DreamWeaver, Front Page and other type apps. Also HTMP is used in web languages like PHP, ASP and so on. Without some kind of HTML education you couldn't used PHP/ASP. DW and the such just basically code the HTML for you so as to give the user a fast, clean graphical interface to play with.
God hates us all, you know it's true, God hates this place. - Slayer 1726 Posts 10/03
Posted - Apr 24 2005 : 8:59PM
Personally I'd start from scratch and learn a web language. You could cut down those 200 pages by making the pages dynamic. All you would use the GET command (for example in PHP) and retrieve them from the URL. Something like one of my review URLs http://www.wcareviews.com/Reviews/movie/556 - that 556 number can be changed and you still use the same page (http://www.wcareviews.com/Reviews/movie) to load all/any movies in the database. Now granted you wouldn't need one, but hey you can still do the URLs, just a little different and according to your needs.
Now I will say since you have no HTML background, this will be tough. So maybe starting from scratch using DreamWeaver would be the best, or even learning HTML and making the pages in an editor.
My editor of choice is called Crimson Editor - nothing fancy, it just colors my mark-ups making it easier for me to read