How do I start a web page?

[Spiderman]

It appears my ISP gives me 10 MB for a web page.

But I have to upload it to them.

So is there any tools out there that's free that I can use to start designing a web page?

 

[Almindhra]

uh, uh, notepad is always free!...lol...if you find some tips on the web notepad is good to use...

I did download Dreamweaver though...*wink wink*...

 

[rkoelsch]

have webpage software built in. Office 2000 has frontpage and lotus millenium has fastsite.

 

[Spiderman]

Okay, let's start at the beginning (which I should have done).

Despite being an Admin Assistant, I have no clue on the inner designs of web sites. I just use the stuff Ed cooks up.

So are you saying all I have to do is start coding html in word/notepad?

 

[nodnarb24]

Originally posted by Spiderman
So are you saying all I have to do is start coding html in word/notepad?

You don't need to know any HTML coding (but it helps), to make a webpage. There are a lot of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) webpage programs that do all the HTML for you. The most popular are Frontpage and Dreamweaver.

 

[Gerode]

I've never used any of the WYSIWYG programs. I like to do everything in pure code. I'm kind of an HTML newbie, and I have a few reference books and friends that help me learn how to do stuff.

 

[Zadok001]

www.htmlgoodies.com is your friend. To code HTML, just save a text file as .html. It'll work fine. That site will give you the basics, you have to do it from there.

 

[Spiderman]

Thanks for the help. I assume Frontpage and Dreamweaver are commercial products and not free? I'll check out Zadok's site...

 

[Ed Sullivan]

I'd avoid FrontPage like the plague. As far as I'm concerned, if you're going WYSIWYG, there is no substitute to Dreamweaver. It is pretty expensive if you just want a personal homepage though.

However, I highly recommend learning how to code HTML (more specifically, XHTML, the XML compliant version of HTML).

I never really tried it, but I don't know how easily Dreamweaver could make this site's layout. I doubt FrontPage would know where to start.

 

[TeamRegime.com]

I have BOTH Dreamweaver and Adobe GOLive and consider myself a novice web-designer. I would recommend Dreamweaver over Go Live. Like it was said before you dont have to KNOW HTML and the other languages but thier FUN to learn and HTML is pretty darn easy. Currently Dreamweaver goes for about 200.00 give or take 50 bucks. Small price for what you get. If your on the techy-hands on approach like some others theres probably NOT a better product than BBEdit (bare bones edit)..for text-editing/web building and begginng and adv programming.

The 2 mentioned programs are the top of the line and are the leaders in web-building.

As for learnability...Dreamweaver..but I really dont know your expertise and knowledge of programs. It's more of "How much time do I want to spend on this." if you use the program once every couple weeks, dont bother. Daily..BUY ONE.

There are alot more details one needs to know too. What does your ISP/Host allow...what sorta server is running it. Is it php like this one? In all honesty- 10 MB of space isnt alot if you have graphics...just depends on what your going to do I suppose.

You mentioned 'upload" to them. theyre are several FREE programs like FETCH which is an excellent and popular FTP (File transfer protocol) and others abound.

Of course Dreamweaver, Go Live ALL have thier own FTP embedded and is seamless in the program. THIS IS KEY IMO for choosing a program. User friendlyness of FTP..Im rambling because setting up a website is a great task and very rewarding. I pretty much learned everything by trial and lots of ERRORS...just wanna help a newbie out.

Good Luck and if you need help email me or pm...Ill be glad to help. Hell I might even HOST your site via MINE for free..just to get your feet wet. LMK


Nicholas Knight
www.teamregime.com


PS....Ill also offer my graphic design PRO-BONO...

 

[Ed Sullivan]

Originally posted by TeamRegime.com
In all honesty- 10 MB of space isnt alot if you have graphics...just depends on what your going to do I suppose.

Actually, I think 10 MB is plenty for text and graphics. Everything on this site (the php [HTML + C style code] and graphics, that is) come in at about 2 megs.

Now the database on the other hand, is around 80-100 MB.

Oh, Go Live isn't bad either. Just remember: avoid FrontPage if you can

 

[Spiderman]

Thanks for more advice. As I said, I'm a total beginner when it comes to this, so I'd rather not spend big bucks getting a program right off. My wife and I are just envisioning this (right now) as kinda like a family web page, to keep members of my family (who happened to be scattered all over the earth right now) kinda updated on what we're doing ('cause we're lazy with emails (although if we're lazy with THAT, I don't know about how it will be updating a website ))

So anyway, the only graphics I see us having are the type of like what this site has or TeamRegime's logos or whatever. No photos yet as we don't have a digital camera or scanner (yet.... THAT'S what I'd spend 200 bucks toward).

I believe the upload is FTP.

There isn't a freeware/shareware version of a earlier version of Dreamworks (kinda like what WinZip has) around?

I just visited Zadok's link, it looks like a bunch of tutorials, right? When I have more time I will explore those individually.

 

[Almindhra]

Well I can get Dreamweaver for you for free...(it may be illegal, I don't know )...