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Are there any recommended software programs to assist with building a website? I know a little about HTML (manage a Intranet site for our facility), but I want to create a nice looking website for my "after hours" company (a local computer repair/consulting/building idea). Unfortunately, at this time I don't really have the income to pay someone to build a site, but I am not proficient enough in web design to feel comfortable in releasing it to the public ;) The key is to keep the cost down for the moment until I can drum up some more business. At the moment I don't have any dreams of it being a huge success since I am running it out of my home and don't have the capital to keep inventory on hand, so it's not like I need a fancy webpage at the moment.
 
i just bought dreamweaver 8 and it seems nice, recommended for my class. still cost 200 bucks though
 
If you're a student you can pick up Macromedia Studio 8 for around $399 and then you'll have Flash for multimedia, Fireworks for Graphics, and Dreamweaver to put it all together in the page. Dreamweaver is great because it handles PHP and ASP and ASP.NET.

Dreamweaver is what I would say the Industry Standard design tool for websites.

Now if you plan on doing dynamic websites and using something like ASP.NET then there is the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition from Microsoft.
 
if you can't afford Dreamweaver, you can give NVU a try. It's one of the few WYSIWYG editors out there that's both free and fairly powerful.

If web development looks like something you'd like to seriously persue, then please, please please, do not use FrontPage as your first web development tool.
 
I've never heard of NVU before but I download it and I think I am going to use it for designing and Visual Web Developer for my data and user controls.

I 100% agree with maw, FrontPage is one of the worst programs for making a webpage. If you're using FrontPage to make a website you might as well just be using Word.
 
Thanks for the advice. I will check out NVU for the time being.

I've seen some pages that others have made with Microsoft Frontpage and Publisher and when I look at the code it seems really "bloated" for lack of a better word. I'm more of a "keep it simple" type of person when it comes to coding.
 
If you think the code is huge from Publisher just take a look at what happens when your turn a PowerPoint into a Web Page!
 
Dreamweaver is my favourite. It's very powerful, but Nvu is close to if not on par with Dreamweaver as far as functionality and power, and it is free. The only reason it is not my #1 is because at the time I discovered it, I did not have anything to do, and had already done everything I needed to do with Dreamweaver. So I'm just waiting for a good occasion to use it.
 
Dreamweaver rocks, but no matter what program you use, make sure you learn and understand the actual code (HTML and at least very basic CSS for sure). Don't completely rely on WYSIWYG. Also, be sure to test your site in multiple web browsers. What may look correct in one browser may not display the same in another.
 
What's wrong with FrontPage again?? That's what I use to create/manage my static sites. Of course for ASP stuff I use something else.

I don't mind not looking at the HTML source, but it works for me. I'm using FP 2003 w/ Office 2003

Question: Does NVE support Frontpage extensions? Can I manage a remote website via NVE just like FP can do?

 
Definitely stay away from FrontPage if you want to be serious.

I actually moved away from Dreamweaver 7/MX, and used BBEdit primarily (Mac OSX) but Dreamweaver 8 is superb, so I really recommend that.

Combination of Dreamweaver 8 and BBEdit work for me.
 
Cobalt2112 said:
What's wrong with FrontPage again?? That's what I use to create/manage my static sites. Of course for ASP stuff I use something else.

I don't mind not looking at the HTML source, but it works for me. I'm using FP 2003 w/ Office 2003
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Relying entirely on the WYSIWYG editor, FrontPage creates a lot of unecessary, messy coding that is not standards compliant. However, if you use the editor sparingly and do a lot of manual coding, or take the time to clean up FrontPage's code and validate it, then there is no problem.

Think about it. Does Microsoft's web browser comply to standards? No. So what makes you think they code generated by their web editor will? It won't, its a bloated mess.
 
I don't think NVE supports Front Page server extensions, I think they are FrontPage only hence the name. They are good to stay away from too.
 
I download NVU, will try it.

Does it support direct editing of sites via FTP? Or do I have to edit the site locally then upload the site once I'm done?

Dreamweaver 8, does it support directly editing the remote site or again, I have to edit it locally then upload via FTP?

Now, has anyone reviewed Frontpage 2003? I think it does try to conform to W3C, no?
 
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