Creating a Website

[Mupp]

thanks siton for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Please don't use dreamweaver. It creates shitty code and I doubt you'll even be able to get it to do what you want unless you know how to code already. And if you know how to code I have no idea why you'd be using dreamweaver. Either hire someone to do the work for you, or pay for something like squarespace where you can customize it a bit, but most of the hard work is done for you. (I wouldn't normally recommend squarespace, but I'd much rather you use it over dreamweavering yourself up a nightmare)

I loled

 

[B3AST]

I loled

Yeh im hearing good things about Dreamweaver but why did you 'LoL'

 

[CodenameG]

dude, give square space a try, they've gotten awards and things for their services and WYSIWIG editor, not only that but you can add things and make changes on the iphone when on the go. from what ive seen its exactly what your looking for.
Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace

an site hosted on SquareSpace.
Alex Albrecht - Blog

theres a free 14 day trial. so give it a shot, if your looking to buy checkout
RetailMeNot.com and get a coupon before you buy and save some cash.

 

[B3AST]

dude, give square space a try, they've gotten awards and things for their services and WYSIWIG editor, not only that but you can add things and make changes on the iphone when on the go. from what ive seen its exactly what your looking for.
Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace

an site hosted on SquareSpace.
Alex Albrecht - Blog


give it a shot, if your looking to buy checkout
RetailMeNot.com and get a coupon before you buy and save some cash.

I Did check it out, but I couldn't find a place to add my pre-existing URL so i don't want to build a website on a 14Day trial then not be able to connect it to my main URL, any ideas?

 

[CodenameG]

I Did check it out, but I couldn't find a place to add my pre-existing URL so i don't want to build a website on a 14Day trial then not be able to connect it to my main URL, any ideas?

im sure they have live support and things, and sure it can be done, just send an e-mail and ask how its done.

 

[B3AST]

Okay bud i shall check it out today and post back, Thanks tho

 

[Mupp]

I loled because of his statment about shitty code. Imo its a good tool and if you learn how to use it will be more then enough to make a simple site.
In the end its all up to you though mate try different apps and see wich one suits you and your project.

 

[CodenameG]

Okay bud i shall check it out today and post back, Thanks tho

yea, you might even have to go into your registrars page, and change it there, since your going to have to tell the dns servers to now point www.blahdeeeblahhhh.com to the squarespace servers etherway they should be able to tell you exactly what to do.

 

[B3AST]

I loled because of his statment about shitty code. Imo its a good tool and if you learn how to use it will be more then enough to make a simple site.
In the end its all up to you though mate try different apps and see wich one suits you and your project.

Yeh, Thanks dude!

 

[mistatic]

Dreamweaver is a worthless bloatware, no real web developers use a WYSIWIG.

Here is a list of options for you.

1) Learn PHP/HTML skills like these will make you more valuable as a person and allow you to understand the internet a bit better when you visit websites. When I see a nice website I automatically can pick out the CSS features a developer did and what type of design pattern they followed. (980gs, fluid width, and cluster fuck). If you do take this route I recommend either Notepad++ or Aptana Studio as your text editor, and Filezilla to upload the files onto your server.

2) Look into Drupal, Joomla is just way to big to be used for a small website. Drupal is similar to Wordpress in terms of adding content, but as you said Wordpress is for blogs. Drupal is meant for rapid website development it supports websites with content as opposed to blogs.

3) Use honorbuddy to bot you up some gold, sell it, and have me build you a custom CMS for your needs.

Wrong, many professionals use dreamweaver simply for the fact that it is alot easier to organise the website.

Though you should only be using it for this not using the actually tools from dreamweaver such as wysiwyg part of it, that usually just creates some messed up code.

 

[onsit]

If by many professionals you mean close to none?

Eclipse based IDEs are used in the professional environment. Dreamweaver is used by Mac junkie hipsters that think they know anything about web development and proper MVC programming. Sure anyone can setup Remote/Test/Production server in Dreamweaver, and yes it is OK I guess. But in the end Dreamweaver is just over bloated with worthless features and the response time on code completion, and debugging just makes me want to puke.

It i marketed as a WYSIWIG for idiots basicly, and it has a powerful text editor. But in the end, it will never be an industry standard for web application development.

Industry standard tools for web development are:

Photoshop
Eclipse(Or derivatives such as ZEND), Netbeans, or pure text editors
Tortouise for SVN support

 

[dartius]

To have a basic website - Learn

+ HTML/XHTML (extended hyper text makeup language) -- Structure of a page
+ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or something -- Simply said Style of a page

To enhance your site:

+ AJAX -- Chats
+ Javascript -- Widgets simply said
- Jquery -- "fork" of javascript
+ Actionscript -- Animating language

Also if you want databasedriven/dynamic etc etc sites you could learn:

PHP -- serverside language (works good with mySQL and driven by Apache (wellused webserver)
ASP/X (C# / VB) A compiled page instead of php that using apache/php to be driven as scripts
ColdFusion
JSP (Java server page)


and other various languages. This is just some languages Ive been working with.

Online there is thousands of tutorials/ebooks and even videos.

:::

Hope you got some "googlehits" now!
And sorry if something above is not quite right

 

[Blink99]

please stop calling it a URL lol, its a domain name. Also, your not going to be spoon fed. So start googleing some tutorials or head to the library and pick up some books. Otherwise, use one of those free website creators out there.


And again, i am still puzzled why you would buy hosting and a domain while having ZERO knowledge of the subject...

 

[Nuller3300]

Dreamweaver is awsome, if u dont have that big knowing to set up websites then joomla is a good choise

 

[B3AST]

please stop calling it a URL lol, its a domain name. Also, your not going to be spoon fed. So start googleing some tutorials or head to the library and pick up some books. Otherwise, use one of those free website creators out there.


And again, i am still puzzled why you would buy hosting and a domain while having ZERO knowledge of the subject...

Why post such an unhelpful comment? im sorry but ?7.00 for a year for a 'domain name' URL is peanuts to me, and ?5 a month for hosting... you pay more playing wow, so stfu, i do not care for people like you commenting here, kk thx bb

AND ALSO, i did not ask to be spoon fed, i asked for advice, READ OP dipshit, people chose to be more helpful and I thank them for it

 

[B3AST]

Also an Update to this, i found Squarespace to be extremely helpful so thank you Codename G and others who suggested it!

 

[B3AST]

<p>Country:</p>
<p><select id="country" class="select" name="Country"> <option selected="selected" value="0">Please Select..</option>
<option value="1">England</option>
<option value="2">Scotland</option>
</select></p>

<p>City:</p>
<p><select id="City" class="select" name="City">&nbsp;<option selected="selected" value="0">Please Select..</option>&nbsp;
<option value="1">London</option>&nbsp;
<option value="2">Manchester</option>&nbsp;
<option value="3">Edinburgh</option>&nbsp;
&nbsp; </select></p>

this is just an example, but would anyone know how to link these to combo boxes on a .html sheet? ive googled for too long and havent found anything easy to interpretate. Thanks! (by link i mean, when you select England in the first one, only cities in england show in the second one.)