web sight software??

[garymck]

Hi,

new to web site design but competent with computers, looking for info on software to do a family business website (not sales, just promotional) as well as an astro website - looking for suggestions on what software to use to create the sites. Requirements are not super complex.

Suggestions?

cheers
Gary

[Gama]

Web Page Maker.
Simple as, and cheap too.

Theo

[garymck]

Thanks Theo,

will have a look...

cheers
Gary

[renormalised]

There's 44million and 2 website creation programs out there. Google for them and you'll see. You can pick a couple and try them out to see which one you like. I have a couple I use, but my main one is Dreamweaver... which is a tad expensive (it's an advantage to get it on academic pricing:)).

If you want to be a real purist about it all, just get yourself a book on HTML/XML and CSS, learn it, then code it in Notepad. I've done that myself before and it's good to do, to learn how to write and debug code. You get a good feel for the site you're building.

[Tandum]

Google "free web templates", get one that you like and modify it.

[33South]

Lots of stuff here, website templates, scripts and tutorials


http://www.hypergurl.com/sitemap.html

[ozstockman]

Hi Gary,

If you want static pages(no database, no contact us form) then it will be cheaper to buy a web template from something like http://www.templatemonster.com/ or get one for free from http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ and modify content/images to suit you.
This way you can get professional design for around $100 or even for free.

If you need dynamic pages where data is stored in db and you can edit it through CMS and also want to collect you customer input and store it in db I don't think there is any software that can help you as a newbie. It may seem not complex to you as it's only page to you but i.e. contact us form usually requires some script to validate and store input data or even send email to website owner with a client request. This is can be done with server side programming like ASP/ASP.NET, PHP or others. To learn all this might take a lot of time. I'm doing web development for 10 years and there is always something new to learn :-)

If you decide to build static pages yourself any good book book about HTML/CSS will help. There is no need to buy any software as you can create and edit html using Notepad.

cheers,

Mike

[ozstockman]

Actually you don't need a book because you can use tutorials from http://www.w3schools.com/