Creating webpages

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Hello everyone,

I want to try my hand at web page design, for personal use, not professional. However, Im not really sure where to start.

I have heard that Dreamweaver is a powerful yet user friendly tool to use. This true? If not, anyone got suggestions on a proggie that will do a "nice" job that is also user friendly. As I have never done any html coding before, I would like something thats somewhat "plug and play" but can also be used to actually do some coding.

As well, does anyone have any online reference guides and such that can offer some good tips and tricks to web design and as well as coding.

Does anyone have any tips for me to get started? Things I should avoid? Stuff like that.

Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

LG

[Poppa_Meth]

Dreamweaver is very good. It can be as advanced or as simple as you need it to be. There are also lots of tutorials available due to it's popularity. The main drawback is the massive pricetag.

[JerryB]

Hello everyone,

I want to try my hand at web page design, for personal use, not professional. However, Im not really sure where to start.

I have heard that Dreamweaver is a powerful yet user friendly tool to use. This true? If not, anyone got suggestions on a proggie that will do a "nice" job that is also user friendly. As I have never done any html coding before, I would like something thats somewhat "plug and play" but can also be used to actually do some coding.

As well, does anyone have any online reference guides and such that can offer some good tips and tricks to web design and as well as coding.

Does anyone have any tips for me to get started? Things I should avoid? Stuff like that.

hi,
these are my thoughts....
Before you put out some hard bucks for a programs i would download one of the freeware programs... advantages... there good to start out with... they offer many of the features that are in the shelfware programs ($$$) .... and lot of them come with basic tutorials....!! and the way there designed... alot of it is plug and play.....!!! smile... did you know that you could even use your notpad to designed a webpage..???? smile...

now places you can find free html editors/webpage editors check out tucows.com or download.com... check out this link there afew editors listed... http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

in all f these try them and pick the one you like that works best for you.....

as far as place to go to find out about html editing... just do a search on htm editors tutorials you get a lot of hits and they will also have recommendations for what freebe htm l editor the best

Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

LG

[jimmalenko]

ASP and PHP are pretty much the two most popular web "page" formats these days AFAIK, and offer much more in terms of being interactive with the user than HTML.

I used to live at http://www.asp101.com and http://www.w3schools.com when I was learning ASP, as both sites have great stuff such as sample code and function layouts. http://www.4guysfromrolla.com is another with many good hints.

I find Frontpage to be good, as you can switch between design mode (a GUI-type interface) and code mode, but then again I'm a fairly experienced coder and can make do with Notepad and a browser window.

As with a lot of things, google is also your friend. Search using a keyword or function you're having trouble with and chances are you'll find someone else's solution.

[sbcheli]

Check out http://www.htmlgoodies.com

[dphirschler]

If you go the notepad/text editor route, I recommend using EditPlus (shareware). Also get the O'Reilly HTML reference book.


Darryl

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Wow. Thanks a ton everyone.

Lots of really useful info in here. I'll be slowly filtering my way through it all and let you know my progress (and possible some other questions :P).

And speaking of questions ... does anyone have any suggestions on who to use for web hosting? Preferably free as this isnt going to be all that fancy or for work purposes. Im sure I could google it but Id rather have some first hand comments from specific users that I "know" in here .. as opposed to random testimonials on the companies website.

Any suggestions?

LG