Website design and Dreamweaver question.

IcyEars

Dreamweaver is the best, but there are many good free wysiwyg editors out there. My personal favourite is Kompozer. As said above, you need to walk before you can run!

Once you have planned your site and what you want on it, it doesn't really matter which program you sue to build it.

And if you need help understanding HTML, WebMonkey is quite useful.

shimmershelly

I love dreamweaver (I have an old version). I taught myself to use it as its pretty simple and there is loads of help and tutorials on the internet. You pick up bits of html/CSS etc as you go along using it as well.
The tags you mentioned are called meta tags and they are in the "head" section of your web page, just bung in any keywords that might help search engines find your site. If you right click on any web page and choose "view source" you can have a look at how that page is made up and also see what tags other people are using.
To get the site you have made live and onto the internet, you can use dreamweaver itself to connect to your host and upload your files but I use smartftp. I have a html based site and ftp works well for me (although I am definately a novice, only one web site under my belt!)
Edit: I have just remembered with my hosting I have cpanel and I can also upload files to the server using their file manager.

Mandles

Thanks for all your replies. I was very imaptient and got no replies on here for a day in which i signed up with hostmonster as my host (they were number 2 in host charts in usa) and bought ready made templates on a genuine website(they are their own, not nicked from others). I also got a load of books from the library but if i do make a site it will look cheap so i think i will stick with these templates.

I would like to learn to do it aswell so i will be taking a lot of your ideas and advice on board too. Many thanks

Rickton

Hi,

If you are going to try and take it on yourself, there is a website known as w3schools, which has a whole host of information on it, from baby steps introducing you to HTML, basic 'web' language, to many more complex languages used in web development such as java etc

When i studied for my web design qualification, all the lecturers often referred to w3schools as an excellent resource, and it has helped me greatly.

It offers you the theory behind what you want, examples of what the code can do, and best of all, 'snippets' of code that you can make minor edits to, and see the effects those changes have at the touch of a button.

Very good in helping you learn what you need to know!

http://www.w3schools.com/ - I would recommend this to anyone trying to do what you are doing!

Hope this helps,

Rick