Designing a WEBSITE? Newbie needs help!!

[BradPitt]

I want to design my own website... any advice? i've googled it and just an overwhelming content about it.

what's the best builder - Dreamweaver? I have found a bunch of free ones on line but then some of them you have to pay if you want to actually upload the content to your own domain.

Advice please

 

[mmmnaked]

What do you want the website to do? If you're as clueless as you sound (no offense) you're better off buying a prepackaged site with a built in news/blog script and call it a day.

Otherwise, Dreamweaver is a fine tool but it won't design anything for you.

 

[Lightcycle]

 

[stangn99]

I want to design my own website... any advice? i've googled it and just an overwhelming content about it.

what's the best builder - Dreamweaver? I have found a bunch of free ones on line but then some of them you have to pay if you want to actually upload the content to your own domain.

Advice please

- Dreamweaver has a few templates you can start on, but their pretty basic.
- Depending on what you want your site to do, you might be better off with a CMS or something pre-built
- The free/opensource code editors are fine, if you know how to write HTML/PHP/JS, etc
- You don't need dreamweaver to upload your content to your hosting server, you can use a free FTP program to that. Dreamweaver has built-in FTP functionality, which makes it easier to edit and upload.

 

[Chaos]

I use Dreamweaver at work. I like it. It's very good for building websites.

A word of advice, a lot of the templates you find free online are not very good. Effectively, you get what you pay for.

 

[el_felo]

First of all, What is your level of understanding of HTML and how web sites work?

you can find many web designing tools, heck you can even create a web page in Microsoft word.

I think the best suggestion here is to maybe look at understanding a little about HTML, make your very first "web page" in plain html you write. This WILL take some time but it will give you a basic idea of how it all works. Once you understand that, you can go and use Dreamweaver, Frontpage or any of the many available resources in the net.

 

[stnd]

Wordpress.

 

[revrandy]

Joomla. Open source linux - far more user friendly than wordpress and has significantly more capabilities. Totally free with so many add on modules for customisation it is impossible to keep track.

 

[el_felo]

Joomla. Open source linux - far more user friendly than wordpress and has significantly more capabilities. Totally free with so many add on modules for customisation it is impossible to keep track.

IMO - I would think wordpress is far more simple than Joomla. And I don't know about suggesting a newbie about a "CMS" let him learn the basics first, specially if he wants to "design" it himself rather than use a template.

 

[jeero]

This.

 

[Araqiels]

How I learnt to make websites, a long time ago, using FrontPage Editor, is I'd download a already made HTML template, or save the webpage of a site whose design I particularily liked, loaded it into the editor, and tinkered with it until I got a concept I liked. That's how you can learn, if you have a WYSIWYG editor as opposed to writing line of code for it.

Good luck. By the way, HTML is getting out of date. Depending on what you intend to have a website for, perhaps a content management program like Joomla! might work for you. It'll take alot of testing various softwares, platforms, and quite a bit of man hours to get what you need, and make sure it works right.