Web Page Design Software

[Lorraine Buchan]

Dreamweaver pretty good i hear

[Kevin.Beck]

we have enrolled in a collage course for the same thing.

Last term was HTML basic.

This term, more indepth things like forms, using HTML.

Last night we were shown a couple of programs that do all the hard work(putting in the code) for you.

1 was Front Page. Part of office 2000 I think.

Just type in what you want, it puts all the codes in for you, click on preview and you see what it would look like.

This is basic but easy, not as good as dreamweaver or jarva, I hear, which we will look into nearer the end of the course.

[Johnny S]

Dreamweaver is the industry standard and if your not that clued up it can be a headache.(Although I use it)

I would recommend going to ukreg.com
and using their template wizard type thing, and it’ll only cost you about £20 inc a years hosting! Can’t be bad.

Although I’m no expert if I can help with any questions please email.

Good luck

Johnny S

[Tim Painter]

NetObjectsFusion isnt bad

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Hi
Dreamweaver is professional, and easy to use, but I think you must have some experience using HTML codes. Sometimes You must edit the code manually. 😕
Use templates if you are a beginner. The Frontpage is good idea.

[John Singh]

I did a little HTML and tried my hand at dreamweaver
Although dreamweaver takes the headache out of HTML it is a professional piece of kit and unless you’re going to be using it daily like web page designers you can get a little lost with links, images and stuff.

Might be best to keep it simple and use a template like the other guys have suggested

John

[Mike Brown]

I use Frontpage…because lifes too short! 😆 Dreamweaver is undoubtedly the king of web programs and when combined with flash stuff it’s amazing…but, as I say, there’s other stuff I wunna do before I die!

more soon

mikethesign

[storeinet]

Hi

Now this is a million dollar question what website software?

In all honesty the best thing to do (if you have a decent net connection) is download the various trails (try before you buy).

The other question is, what type of functionality would you like your site to have?

As with all software these days, one will do things better/easier than others.

As has been said Dreamweaver is about the best tool, but can take some time to get your head around.

Frontpage, also OK but it does have it’s down side, well it is Microsoft, it will put in format coding that you don’t want, which then has to be manually edited, you can use Notepad for this if you know what your looking at. The other downside of FP is its cross browser compatibility. You can design a page and think god that’s the bees knees when looked at in IE, look at it in Netscape and it’s complete crap.
Even with the browser design element chosen.

Not sure if Adobe PageMill is still going but this was a neat little program.

The list goes on, go to http://www.tucows.com/internet.html for a list of free downloads there’s even freeware listed here, so no expense.

Some of these downloads a huge, so look before attempting.

What do I use, well I’ve been lucky in that I ordered software in my last employment, and as an home worker had the software licences which I’ve managed to keep  .

Dreamweaver, frontpage, notepad.

Dan

[AaSk4Stickers]

Previous posters have just about said it all.

It rather depends on
a) your current level of IT skill and knowledge including working with HTML
b) the availability of your time to learn something new if the answer to (a) is pretty basic
c) the sort of look and functionality you want on your site
d) the amount of time you can devote to maintaining your site
and
e) the number of pennies in your purse

My own choice? I use Front Page 2000 for the sake of simplicity and Net Objects Fusion for more serious design stuff.

[liam]

I use Netobjects Fusion Its very easy to use and can normally be found on free cd on the front of computer magazines. It has a good range of templates and the learning curve is very short. I have put together a couple of sites with it.
http://www.graphicsandsigns.co.uk
http://www.armaghlimousines.co.uk

Take a look

Liam

[paddy]

I use Frontpage, it is similar to use as Word etc and you can cut and paste etc etc, I have found it really easy to use.

For uploading I use WSFTP which is pretty simple to setup.

I like Mikes view, life is too short, you will spend a good deal of time getting to grips with frontpage alone, with out trying to learn html.