building my website; awesome yet harrowing!!!!

Dreamweaver is an awesome program for building sites. I just bought www.crazychicago.com and started putting it together. I'm only a couple of hours in, and I don't know if I'm liking the layout, but I'll get it figured out in a few weeks. I'm working on a massive job at work so I haven't had any time to mess with the site. I have a couple of people who are adding content, but it will mainly be about reviews and for people to find out what events are going on in Chicago. If you can get a copy of Dreamweaver I highly recommend it.

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Originally Posted by PythonWallace

Dreamweaver is an awesome program for building sites.If you can get a copy of Dreamweaver I highly recommend it.

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i second that

It's what I previously did for a living... although, I worked with graphic designers as my talents fall fairly short in that area ;). If you need any help, let me know!

I've used the WYSIWYG programs to build a site and I don't like them. I prefer to either use Microsoft Front Page or to just do all the coding and such myself.

I strongly advise against MS Front Page.


Dreamweaver is not just a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), you can use Split Screen and view your code as well. DW is my tool of choice.

In my experience, Front Page inputs a LOT of useless JUNK and sometimes pages don't even properly function in other browsers, such as FireFox.

Jen, in your page maker, make sure you save your progress and don't hit the back button. If you save, you can always go back and make changes later on.

I use CSS, it just worked out way better for me personally. I usually wrote by hand and uploaded it to my server. I think once you have a format to use, it just breezes by.

Oh yea, if you see a website and you really dig the layout, check their source code. (look up the source file for css) I know alot of people look down on it, but you can really learn some very nifty things that way. I wouldn't clone it, that isn't looked on very well. But I learned some really cool layout formats that way.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

I use CSS

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

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haha! thanks~~

I also enjoy DW as it meshes well with Flash, and Illustrator. It does take some coding knowledge to get the layout and interface you might want but on the whole a very useful tool.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

I strongly advise against MS Front Page.


Dreamweaver is not just a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), you can use Split Screen and view your code as well. DW is my tool of choice.

In my experience, Front Page inputs a LOT of useless JUNK and sometimes pages don't even properly function in other browsers, such as FireFox.

Jen, in your page maker, make sure you save your progress and don't hit the back button. If you save, you can always go back and make changes later on.

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Hmm, interesting. I've never had that problem and... I'm currently running Fire Fox. ;)
I've used it with several different browsers without problems whereas the WYSIWYG and split screen progs have nearly always messed up in one way or other, thus causing me to have to just do it all in code without the "preview" so to speak.
But, such is the way of programs, they seem to work great for some and not so well for others.