Building a website - Dreamweaver?

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

I'd like to put a website together for the astronomical spectroscopy group.
I can find "free" tempates on the web but my ol' MS Word 2003 just can't edit them without changing the graphics etc.
I need something better just to do the editting....It's suggested a old version of Dreamweaver may be the way to go.
Anyone want to sell their old Dreamweaver software?
Or any other (cheap) ideas???

[sheeny (Al)]

All my html I've done in Notepad, Ken.

I did try Pagemill for a while, and Frontpage, but in the end I like complete control and to build light code... a hang over from the days of limited bandwidth.

Al.

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Best free editor for making pages is Notepad++.

However I highly recommend Dreamweaver. I used this at university as well as during my web developer internship and it is a very user friendly program. There are three modes to make a page.
- Visual (shows the layout of the website)
- Code (purely code)
- Hybrid (both the above, so as you code you can see the changes taking place)

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

How is the website going Ken?

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

It's up, but the additional pages/ data is taking far longer than I imagined/ hoped for.
http://astronomicalspectroscopy.com/

I did find a good book which helped me:
"Creating Web Pages Simplified" by Mike Woodbridge & Brianna Stuart.
At least now I have a layout which makes a little more sense to me....just need to dedicate more time to the "project".
Thanks for asking!

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Hey Ken ... I am no web developer, however all my pages are done in Wordpress. Very easy to update as required and load of free add ons !