Posted: 11/9/2006 12:49:01 PM EDT
| but I need to create a web site, any suggestions on a program that will help? |
Sure. Buy a book on HTML, and fire up your favorite text editor. It's not hard.  Seriously, at some point you're going to need to have at least a rudimentary understanding of HTML and CSS. You will become frustrated with your WYSIWYG editor, and you won't have the skills necessary to overcome the inevetable shortcoming you will soon discover in your editor. |
Depends on what kind of a web page you want to create. If it's just something for your family or yourself personally then you could try Microsoft Frontpage. For professional applications you would be better off learning HTML and CSS, or at the very least look into getting Dreamweaver. Depending on what you need, you might also look into free blog site programs. |
Dreamweaver... No this is a professional site that I need to revamp for a small real estate company. www.penningtonline.com is the web site and its BAD. If you look at www.remax.com or www.century21.com they look professional. I talked myself into this (I do IT for them) but their webmaster sucks donkey balls. The site is hard to use and dull. And the guy charged them BIG $$$ for this dinky ass site. Is the Dummies book good? If I read it over the next week, would that help? |
None taken... Did you look at the existing site? How would you rate it? (question is for anyone) |
The home page sucks, but the property listing isn't too bad. The ability to search would be nice (requires server-side scripting development - php, ASP.net, etc). A site like this shouldn't be static, and would be MUCH easier to maintain were it database-driven (heck, it might already be...hard to tell). To make it look exactly they way you have it pictured in your head, you'll need to learn HTML, Javascript (though finding pre-written scripts that don't suck isn't that difficult) and CSS. These things control the actual presentation of the site. Retrieving properties from a database and allowing the user to search requires server-side script development in the language of your choice (php, asp/asp.net, perl, whatever). It would be nearly impossible to bring that site up to the level of say...realtor.com any other way. |
-It stinks. ---------------- For programs to use,,,, Dreamweaver or Adobe GoLive are good. FrontPage sucks (it generates lots of errors in pages, and they tend to only display in Internet Explorer properly [coincidence??? Hmmmm,,,,]). You need to pin down who's going to maintain this thing first, and if your company can buy new software or not. There's no sense building a great website that needs to have content rotated regularly but is [practically] unmaintainable. Also,,, find out what kinds of server-side stuff you can run (Perl, PHP, java servlets or whatever). ~ |
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If you want something as professional as remax.com you're not going to get it out of HTML for Dummies. You can emulate the professional 'look' of the site, but the functionality built into remax.com requires more backend programming than you can get out of a beginner's HTML book. For that you're going to need ASP or PHP programming, plus a database setup on the server side, and possibly some custom JavaScripting. Also, you should look into SSI (server side includes) with ASP or PHP. Now, if you can forget about complex functionality and stick with just improving the aesthetics of the site then that is something you could easily acheive - provided you have Photoshop and ImageReady to generate the graphics. |