Web site design.

[Wooshie]

I have a new domain name thru www.web.com (http://www.web.com). I am not real good with this yet. Has anybody designed a web page before? What are some good programs to use? There is a generic template section on the page, but I want something a little more personal. Any ideas are appreciated.

[Fastbird]

Frontpage and Dreamweaver are both good programs, but costly IIRC. Either makes web design a snap though.

[Wooshie]

I have a small budget. I will see if I can afford either of those.

[~chipsahoy~]

FWIW, Dreamweaver is a PITA...

[Fastbird]

FWIW, Dreamweaver is a PITA...

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. I tried DW after using Frontpage for a while and hated it, but others swear by it.

[Wooshie]

So frontpage is the preferred option then?

[Fastbird]

All depends on what you like. FP is pretty easy.

[Wooshie]

All depends on what you like. FP is pretty easy.

Thanks!

[Formula383]

IMO, if you are a coder/designer then DW is the better option. I've been using it for over 10 years now. It really depends on what you're used to. My experience with FP back in it's early days (98,2000) was that it held your hand too much. Either will work for simple page designs.

[SoulReaver]

Omg you guys are craazzzzzyy. Dream Weaver is the standard.

I take that back, if your a nub then use Front Page, I highly suggest FP for any beginners.

However, if your looking to go a little further into the rabbit hole and really crank out some high end stuff, then you seriously should look at Dream Weaver.

I think Front Page is a great starting point. You can really learn how to do alot, because mostly everything is pre-programmed.

[Phstratton]

I've used dreamweaver, frontpage, and microsoft expression. I think expression is my favorite.

[KissMyWhtSS]

From my experiences, Frontpage is a joke. Granted I haven't used frontpage since I was like 10-11 and even then I typically edited pages with notepad after frontpage because I felt the code frontpage came up with was bad.

I'm a web application programmer for my school, and we use Dreamweaver on a daily basis. I don't use the "design" view, but my coworkers do. I simply use it as a syntax highlighter to help find any errors in my code.

I HIGHLY suggest learning html from scratch and being able to create a basic web page completely from scratch using notepad. After you feel comfortable with html, I'd suggest learning javascript (client-side scripting) or php (server-side scripting)

Let me know if you have any questions, as I do web programming for a living right now and I've been around it for quite some time.

[Counted Out]

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I agree with what everyone is saying. Start with FrontPage then learn Dreamweaver.

By the way, a domain name alone won't give you a website. You need to buy webspace too.

[KissMyWhtSS]

By the way, a domain name alone won't give you a website. You need to buy webspace too.
There's many free services that would work, or you could set up your own server.

I have a virtual server on a spare machine running apache 2.2/php 5.3/mysql 5.1 at home.

[phantomzer0]

Here's my two cents:

If you don't plan on diving into it and making it a hobby, stick to Frontpage. It will do the basics and get you up and running.

If you plan on sticking with it and learning a thing or two, toss Frontpage to the curb and go with Dreamweaver. The web has evolved past simple HTML, of course it's still the foundation of everything on the web, it's just that it's evolved into CSS and other things. Javascript is still cool, but I find many of the things you need it for you can find already written for free. I can safely say a strong knowledge of CSS will not only help you build web sites more effectively but it will keep you up to date on what the norm in design is now.

Cliff notes: Get Dreamweaver and learn CSS, but only if you plan on sticking with design for a while. Go with Frontpage if you just want to get something basic up.