Program for building website

[PilotinCommand]

Hi,

I don't know anything about building a website. I want to start to gain some knowledge of building a website to first understand and then build websites. What programs and what support-websites are good to start with?

PiC

[Force Flow]

Dreamweaver is a program several web designers suggest.

For the hard-core coder, people suggest notepad

[PilotinCommand]

Are there any on-line manuals for use with dreamweaver (for dummies)?

PiC

[Blue_Gundam2002]

I started out useing geocities and there web builder. I still use it for my website, its not the best out there but its not the worst. I've been lazy and never finished it after I redid it over the summer. You can even put in extra scrips and what not without opening it in there html editer.
I think its great for begginers, its pretty simple and there basic package is free.
If you want to work with the pages offline you can use a wysiwyg program and then just upload all the files to geocities. I did a few of my pages useing Net Object Fusion7. http://www.geocities.com/blue_gundam2002/

[Xayd]

Actually the 'composer' app in Mozilla has gotten very good in recent versions, and of course is free with the browser .

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/

[Lord Prism]

Here's a FREE way:

http://www.coolpage.com/cpg.html

Good Luck,

[mairving]

Originally posted by Force Flow Dreamweaver is a program several web designers suggest. For the hard-core coder, people suggest notepad

No, I would say most hard-core coders would prefer something like Homesite, Textpad or Editplus. Notepad is a good starter but lacks helpful things like tag completion and syntax highlighting.

[nooblark]

quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Force Flow Dreamweaver is a program several web designers suggest. For the hard-core coder, people suggest notepad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No, I would say most hard-core coders would prefer something like Homesite, Textpad or Editplus. Notepad is a good starter but lacks helpful things like tag completion and syntax highlighting.

acaully notepad is more hardcore because if u make an error its not going to show u.. hence more hardcore.. thats why i use it

[ghost2003]

http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index_old.html

[mairving]

Originally posted by nooblark acaully notepad is more hardcore because if u make an error its not going to show u.. hence more hardcore.. thats why i use it

By Hardcore, I mean people that do this for a living.

[nooblark]

well i meant its hardcore because its much harder to use and its for more advanced ppl

[kram 2.0]

Personally, I use TextPad since I taught myself HTML about three years ago, and JavaScript roughly two years ago. Using a program that only shows syntax would be strenuous for some begginers, considering it takes a little getting used to with HTML (though I found it relatively easy - give it a try?).

Building sites? Dreamweaver is definately for web designers - I would not recommend using it, though it is a really nice program once you know how to use it. Though reluctant, I would use Adobe GoLive, if you happened to have programs like Adobe Photoshop Elements with you. I've also used MS Frontpage - might be for begginers, but I didn't like it very much - only served to help me learn HTML.


Hope that helps,
kram

[mairving]

Originally posted by kram8806 Though reluctant, I would use Adobe GoLive,

Stay far away from GoLive. It writes the most bulky bloated code of any of the WYSIWYG editors. It interfaces nicely with Adobe products though. DW is the preferred choice by those who use a WYSIWYG editor. Some like Fireworks since it integrates nicely into DW. I don't like it mainly because I am so used to Photoshop.