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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: davidlandy on October 16, 2004, 20:29:56

Title: website creating
Post by: davidlandy on October 16, 2004, 20:29:56

What is the best (and very easy) software to use for creating a website ?

I want one that is free if poss and allows me to publish to where ever i like

thanks all

Dave

Title: website creating
Post by: strapping young lad on October 16, 2004, 21:20:42

microsoft word can create webpages but frontpage also publishes it onto certain websites which support it (both on microsoft office)

there are other applications out there both shareware and commercial but ive not bothered with them

Title: website creating
Post by: Range Rover Blues on October 16, 2004, 21:24:54

Take a look at the SEOC website, that's done in Dreamweaver.  The old site was in publisher and anything you put up just kept moving around, columns wouldn't stack, it looked bad.
The lad who does the website isn't a pro but we all think he's done a great job with it.

Title: website creating
Post by: Vam on October 17, 2004, 19:30:32

Microsoft used to do something called 'frontpage express'

Could try the microsoft update site?


Though as a complete HTML virgin my 'wonderful'  :wink:  husband with the help of a couple of HTML books put together my website in a morning,
though we still have to upload the photos and do a few more bits

Vam

Title: website creating
Post by: muddyweb on October 17, 2004, 20:49:47

Quote from: "strapping young lad"

microsoft word can create webpages but frontpage also publishes it onto certain websites which support it (both on microsoft office)

hmmmmm

IMHO Word and the like tend to produce, at the very best, appalling HTML pages which are unlikely to render properly for half the people who visit your site.

Frontpage express was what I cut my teeth on, but doesn't have the WYSIWYG type of interfaces that some have.

Dreamweaver is pretty good for HTML, but isn't free, or that cheap.

To be honest, HTML isn't that tough to learn, and if you use an editor which isn't trying to be incredibly clever, you will find things a) More fulfilling, and b) Technically better

Just my 2p worth


p.s. (The mud club site is written and maintained using nothing more than a pretty basic text editor)

Title: website creating
Post by: Hightower on October 17, 2004, 21:33:33

Dave,

I have a copy of MS Office (which includes Frontpage) that I can let you have.  It the 2000 version and, as I now use Office XP, I don't need it anymore.

Let me know

Title: website creating
Post by: scorpio on October 17, 2004, 23:34:54

I used front page and found it to be (sorry for this) but crap I now use net objects fusion 8 and it seems ok to me.

Title: website creating
Post by: davidlandy on October 18, 2004, 19:37:49

Vam

didnt see a link 2 your website?

Simon

thanks  yes please!

give me a call to discuss logistics! 01536 390424

cheers  Dave