website!!

[bobybell]

I am working to build my website, rather going to somewhere else, thus need some info and some help.

what website builder program is best? templets, color, and all necessary requirements.
Is it avaliable to dl from some site?
Extra information could be highly appreciated.

[BJ_M]

notepad

[BJ_M]

seriously now (notepad is used a lot though) -- i like CoffeeCup HTML Editor http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/

[Forum Troll]

I use Netscape Composer 4.7. I'm sure I am the only person in the world who still has it installed.

[thecoalman]

I use coffeecup myself, free version is here: http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/

Notepad will work... in fact most text editors are nothing more than glorified version of notepad . Being that they are specifically geared towards making websites they do make things a lot easier, as an example they highlight certain parts of code whereas notepad is going to give you the same font color throughout the document.

[bobybell]

Notepad?? do you mean writing text in notepad?

What about graphic, templates, design , models and all other staff than text?
would like to know about it also! as it is most important part in creating website. thanks for your help.

[thecoalman]

Webpages are entirely made up of text either content or HTML markup.

Try this, put "Hello World" in notepad and save it as test.html then open it in your web browser. Congratulations you made your first web page.

A step further:

Hello World I'm Using Bold Text
Hello World I'm not using Bold Text

With an image (for this to work yourimage.jpg has to be in the same folder that test.html is):

Hello World I'm Using Bold Text
Hello World I'm not using Bold Text
[img]yourimage.jpg[/img]

This is of course basics but understanding the fundamentals is essential if you want to create web pages.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

The editor mentioned above from coffeecup has a WYSIWG option that allows you to place text and images like you would in MS Word but more importantly it allows you to switch to text mode to see what's going on behind the scenes.

[beavereater]

If you're looking for easy ways to do it you could always try Web Page Maker. It's free to try, but when you publish them you can open them with Notepad and see what it looks like. No actual coding necessary.

[thecoalman]

If you're looking for easy ways to do it you could always try Web Page Maker.

WYSIWG I mentioned above is short for "what you see is what you get", it would be the same thing. You can place images and text visually and it will generate the code for you. Trouble with using WYSIWG is you have little control over many aspects.

[BJ_M]

when you get down to it -- even 'ms word' makes a very good single page web editor as it is also WYSIWG and you can save to a web page -- though you have to edit said page and remove all the ms office crap (which is easy to do in notepad) ...

try to stay away from programs like frontpage though IMO

[thecoalman]

That's what I used to get my start but I'd keep away from using that. Frontpage is to be discontinued,
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/FX100743231033.aspx

[beavereater]

If you're looking for easy ways to do it you could always try Web Page Maker.

WYSIWG I mentioned above is short for "what you see is what you get", it would be the same thing. You can place images and text visually and it will generate the code for you. Trouble with using WYSIWG is you have little control over many aspects.

What aspects would you have little control over?

[thecoalman]

Well for starters try and create a fluid layout with a static left nav using only CSS... Try adding a simple piece of javascript code for a mouseover affect, there's plenty of things you can't do.

[Garibaldi]

Also try Notepad++, its a great editor as well. You may want to think about using a content management system to handle your pages, it allows you to create a very complex site and manage it with ease. A couple examples are Joomla (which I use), Mambo, Drupal, and XOOPS

[sanjayk]

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a good tool but its not free. Though it has lots of features like navigation bar, buttons, frames ... I use to use it once upon a time ! But I think its better than FrontPage.

Check out more details at http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

[Garibaldi]

Although Dreamweaver will do a lot of those things for you, I think it is better to learn the code as well because you will only really be able to integrate cool scripts and debug problems if you can understand the code at some level

[redstripes]

dreamweaver or html kit?

[Mylan23]

try hotmail

[BJ_M]

try hotmail

????

[sanjayk]

Mylan23, we are talking about website development here and not sendding email

I would suggest learing the basics of HTML, javascripts, vbscripts etc., then create few simple pages and then use a powerful editor like Dreamweaver to create better and feature rich pages. But basics are must to understand What Lies Beneath ...