Building a website

[ladywhipple02]

Hey guys,
I'm kinda thinking further into the future, but I was wondering if anyone had any experience in website building, and if you used any particular software to do so? I was looking into Dreamweaver and Frontpage, but I'm not really sure. Also, how do you purchase a domain name?

I'm incredibly new at this stuff Like I said, this is for future endeavors (I'm hoping to breed Crested Geckos, someday) but it's never too early to start playing around.

Let me know what you guys think. Any and all input appreciated! Thanks!

[Smulkin]

For domain names go to godaddy.com - they are fairly inexpensive.

Not sure how long it will last but Yahoo has domains for about $3 - though I have never used them. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domai...25267-10368211

Dreamweaver is a bit better than Front Page (IMO) but there are plenty of free WYSIWYG HTML editors out there as well. I will try to dig up some links for you. Best thing to do though is just snag an HTML book (or online guide) and build in Notepad - you will learn infinitely more that way though tables will seem initially very confusado.

Back in a jiff with some of that.


EDIT:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/download/

http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/download.php (used to be free not sure anymore)

[Shelby]

I know a fair amount about web design.. if you have any HTML questions, just ask. There are a lot of html tutorials online that are great.

[Smulkin]

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp


There's one.

[daniel1983]

i got my domain from www.godaddy.com . i think it was like 11.00 for 2 years, then I went ahead and got a cheap hosting plan from them as well....so I paid about $80 total for the domain and hosting for 2 years. It did not sound like a bad deal so i figured why not.....

....but now I have to learn how to design a webpage...I am using dreamweaver....everything I have done so far is kinda jumbled though...ha ha...and I can't even figure out how to link to other sites....bad huh?

[Shelby]

Yeah, that is bad, Daniel. lol

I personally prefer hand coding the HTML.. maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the HTML editors seem to just hinder me.

[bg1906]

I'm a web developer. I write html/xhtml, javascript, vbscript, asp, coldfusion, xml, and some java. I prefer to hand code. I use Homesite+ also by Macromedia. If you ever need any web help, just let me know.

[daniel1983]

Yeah, that is bad, Daniel. lol

I personally prefer hand coding the HTML.. maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the HTML editors seem to just hinder me.

Ha ha.....coding in HTML...i would not even know where to start

It should not be that hard to learn....after all, I can code a few different types of engineering software like GTSTRUDL.... programming is programing, right? ha ha...probably not

[Shelby]

HTML is super easy.. I learned it in 6th grade for heaven's sake! Just take a look at that tutorial.

[bg1906]

Ha ha.....coding in HTML...i would not even know where to start

It should not be that hard to learn....after all, I can code a few different types of engineering software like GTSTRUDL.... programming is programing, right? ha ha...probably not

HTML isn't actually programming at all. It is a mark up language. Just used to format an html document for display. Programming actually requires logic and problem solving. HTML requires none of that. Just practice and knowledge of the various tags, their attributes, and how they display an element.