Website Basics

[anzo]

Morning all,

Need some advice on building a website. I've found something that could make me a wee bit of money but I need a website to sell it from. Thought of Ebay but in its current state, I'd rather avoid it with all the fees.

I've dabbled around with HTML before, I know most of the basics but thats all. So I'm looking for some easy software to use, but also something with a little more advanced stuff for when I pick it all up later on.

If someone could recommend some software with prices and WHY, it'd be really helpful.

Also, if someone could also explain the process of getting a website online, it would also be helpful.

Thank you!

[GlynnP]

Hey mate,

Software side your best bet is Adobe Dreamweaver its industry standard and you have both the design option and the coding option on it. Meaning you can just simply design the site and dreamweaver does most of the coding for you or you can code the site yourself and dreamweaver will give you coding hints. With it being Adobe software as well you can get loads of plug-ins for it to help you out as well espcailly for the e-commerce side of things when you are looking to sell.

Only down side is its price at £393.62 to buy the full package.

I dont use any other software so cant say how good they are but there are programes like;

Microsoft Frontpage which is mainly a coding package - Microsoft Frontpage

And A whole load of others made by smaller companies here - Google Results

Getting a site online i can also help with but as for now i have to go to work so will post again later with more details on software and also getting your site online.

Hope this helps you getting started though.

[UrbanPoet]

Morning all,

Need some advice on building a website. I've found something that could make me a wee bit of money but I need a website to sell it from. Thought of Ebay but in its current state, I'd rather avoid it with all the fees.

I've dabbled around with HTML before, I know most of the basics but thats all. So I'm looking for some easy software to use, but also something with a little more advanced stuff for when I pick it all up later on.

If someone could recommend some software with prices and WHY, it'd be really helpful.

Also, if someone could also explain the process of getting a website online, it would also be helpful.

Thank you!

The downside of selling only through a website and not eBay is traffic. The marketing cost to drive traffic to a site, and then convert those visits into sales is a lot, but the long-term benefits of that are great.

Let me know if you want some advice of getting a product to market.

[tomturd]

Any text editor (sorry, someone had to say it), preferably with syntax highlighting. I use komodo edit in work.

As for wanting to do 'more complex stuff' - I'm not sure what you mean... basic decent skills with html and CSS will get you very far.

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Where do people get it into their heads that dreamweaver is industry standard?

[anzo]

Any text editor (sorry, someone had to say it), preferably with syntax highlighting. I use komodo edit in work.

As for wanting to do 'more complex stuff' - I'm not sure what you mean... basic decent skills with html and CSS will get you very far.

Basically, I don't want to be limited by the software I use...if thats possible?

Thanks for you're help all.

[br3n]

Where do people get it into their heads that dreamweaver is industry standard?

in the same way they think premiere is

[Revolver]

Where do people get it into their heads that dreamweaver is industry standard?

Hehe

All my tutor uses it for is for hooking up CSS to pages when he can't be arsed to do it himself.

AFAIK he just uses notepad.

Got to admit though, dreamweaver is useful if you don't know CSS.

[531joshua]

I would say Dreamweaver from experience. It's great if you're furthering your skills in HTML and CSS, as it has a lot of handy 'code-highlighting' features, which is a great help. It also, as many website design consoles do, have a line counter, which is also handy if you're using PHP or similar, where it will give an error along with a line number the error is on - using Notepad or similar, you'll be on for years finding that line, with Dreamweaver it's instant.

[Extreme_biker0]

Any text editor (sorry, someone had to say it), preferably with syntax highlighting. I use komodo edit in work.

Dreamweaver has lots and lots of useful code-writing Macros which speed things up no end when doing complex sites. It's important tha you keep track of what code the program is producing - but do this and you'll find using dreamweaver is your best bet.

To reccommend someone to use a basic text editor is just a pompous way of trying to look cool as a hard-core programmer. The reason is - Dreamweaver Split view lets you work on the code and the rendered result simultaneously. So you still work directly on the code, but it shows you what you're producing at the same time. Why on earth would anyone choose a simple text editor over this?

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

becauase it really is shit.

[sUm]

I've been playing around with some website stuff after taking a course on Internet Apps at University recently. I've been using Microsoft Sharepoint Designer, but to a limited extent. It's very nice to be able to use the "split" mode. As has already been said in this thread though, it's best if you can write the majority of the code yourself. The generated code can be pretty ugly, so once you get good at coding and want to change things around yourself, you'll find it very difficult to navigate through the generated code.

As a relative beginner myself, I'm still looking for a tool that will really increase my ability to make a great-looking website. For now I have a found that, although it seems like a lot of work, the "do it (mostly) by hand" method really does seem better in the long run.

[Extreme_biker0]

becauase it really is shit.

because you're gay