Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Tools for building your own website?
Ronny Eelen
>Hi,
For those people who already have their own website, which tools did you use to build it?
This is not going to be a professional purpose website. Just a regular personal site.
Any suggestions?
thanks
Ronny
Re: Tools for building your own website? *LINK*
Dave Ramer
>There are a lot of free tools to make personal sites and many ISP's provide them for their users. Yahoo has a free website building tool including templates, etc. for making simple sites.
Template Monster.com has thousands of web site templates consisting of multiple pages and some include e-commerce capability. Prices range from $29 to just under $100 for the complete template.
If you have Dreamweaver or Frontpage,(or know someone that does and can help) you can modify the templates to fit your specific content. You can also have Template Monster's service modify them for a fee.
The templates contain all the necessary HTML code, Flash Animation, graphics files, etc. for the site. Once you buy and download the site, it is yours to modify any way you wish...
Not associated with them in any way...
good luck...
Re: Tools for building your own website? *LINK*
Tom Mullane
>My wife and I use Front Page and then tweak the html by hand afterword.. but there is a learning curve...
For a freebie, I would suggest Trellian, it has gotten good reviews and is a WYSIWYG program... the link is below..
Trellian WebPAGE
Re: Tools for building your own website?
Bill Luinetti
>CSE HTML editor/validator to write the HTML and CSS code and then CuteFTP to upload the files to my websites.
Re: Tools for building your own website? *LINK*
RonZ
>Frontapge. If you don't have it or can't afford it get Ver. 2000 on e-bay real cheap.
My site
Call me a neanderthal (or Luddite), but...
Rod Peterson -- Ormond Beach
>...I hand code my HTML in EditPad, evaluate it with HTMLTidy, and upload with WS_FTP LE. Every once in a while I check for broken links with Xanu.
I just did a check earlier today, and I have probably 500 files on my site. In all fairness, a good many of those were filled out from boilerplates I had written earlier. Still...
Do a search on the 'net for web design mistakes. You will find plenty of places to look for dos and don'ts in your design. Don't implement the things they suggest you not.
Test with browsers other than M$ infernal exploder. Even though it has a huge market share, there are other browsers in use. There are even (horrors) other computers.
Not everyone is on broadband. Test your site on its server with a dialup connection to see what many users will see in terms of load time.
All users will have a slower connection than your internal mirror machine that you'll be testing on. Keep that in mind when you're testing your (shudder) big graphics and flash.
Rod
Re: Tools for building your own website? *LINK*
YoYoSpin
>I'm using NAMO 5.5 to build and maintain all my sites, available off eBay for between $10 and $20. The latest version (6.0) is available through the link below for around $100.
NAMO is similar to Front Page and DreamWeaver, but IMHO, easier to learn. It also contains a hundred or so templates.
Best regards,
Ed D.
http://yoyospin.com
http://yoyospin.com/ppw
NAMO web editor 6.0
Re: thanks
Ronny Eelen
>Thanks for the replies.
I will be checking out these suggestions.
Ronny
