Creating my website

vermas

I want to create my website- i see there are some sites to buy domain names from such as simplynames.com

they also have hosting deals- should i sign up to one of those aswell so that i can easily build my site using one of their tools

i also want to get my mailbox setup- is this something i need to subscribe with them for?

fairly new to all this so wanted to know options- there are also things like frontpage and sitebuilder but again i assume i will need to use this to create the site and then upload in some other way

any advice and tips appreciated

kez1234

i did my website on here they are pretty good

http://www.wix.com/

samhale

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Get your free .co.uk domain at http://www.ovh.co.uk

Use Frontpage.
A lot of top designers don't like to admit they use Frontpage, but it's very easy to use for making tables, the basis of most web pages.

nv200

I use https://www.one.com for domain registering and web site hosting, its is about £9 for the first year and you also get£Gb of space, web mail, a picture gallery tool, blogging templates and also some basic web design tools. I use Dreamweaver 8 myself that I acquired from a friend who had upgraded. It pretty good with excellent free templates to help create your pages...Have a look at www.ramblinghikers.co.uk...for any idea of what can be done

M4RKM

the basis of most professional webpages are not tables

enough people have told you about domains and hosting and things like that, so i won't, but to say that people should use TABLES for webdesign is saying that people should still use a horse and cart to go from leeds to london, rather than something a bit better!!

CSS is the new way of making things look pretty, and is relatively easy to learn. My advice is to sit down with a book, and learn how to hand code, because then you'll understand what you are doing, and be able to code your own pages.

Then, you can move onto some decent software like Dreamweaver, which is 1000 times better than frontpage, supports databases, and css wonderfully, and use the wysiwyg editor, and if you have any glitches when viewing in different browsers over different platforms, then at least you should be able to understand where it has gone wrong.

Personally, i'd never recommend front page, as it is awful, and i won't admit to using something i don't use, because it a) doesn't run on my computer, b) have i said it is awful?

M

samhale

markymoo wrote: »

the basis of most professional webpages are not tables

Not professional, but then again most of the web isn't professional webpages.

markymoo wrote: »

CSS is the new way of making things look pretty, and is relatively easy to learn. My advice is to sit down with a book, and learn how to hand code, because then you'll understand what you are doing, and be able to code your own pages.

Does he need to?

markymoo wrote: »

Then, you can move onto some decent software like Dreamweaver, which is 1000 times better than frontpage, supports databases, and css wonderfully, and use the wysiwyg editor

He's said he's new to this. There is very little chance he'll need MySQL, Frontpage would suit him perfectly.

M4RKM

so, you'd rather recommend a broken website by the time that IE8 comes out, and a website that really doesn't actually look good..

now, if it is a personal website, and he doesn't give a crap how it looks, as he isn't actually selling anything, then yeah, anything will work, but if it is going to be a business website, surely the OP wants something that looks good, professional, and modern, not something that looks.. well.. !!!!...

and if he doesn't need mysql etc etc, fine, but dreamweaver is still 1000% times better for a basic website, as it codes things nearly correctly, whereas frontpage triples the page size with opening and closing tags all the damn time, when you don't actually need to do things like that if you used css, so therefore loading faster, and basically coded properly, which adheres to the minimum w3c standards..

but what do i know, i only run a small web design business.. i must be using the wrong software even for the most basic websites

M

samhale

markymoo wrote: »

so, you'd rather recommend a broken website by the time that IE8 comes out, and a website that really doesn't actually look good..

now, if it is a personal website, and he doesn't give a crap how it looks, as he isn't actually selling anything, then yeah, anything will work, but if it is going to be a business website, surely the OP wants something that looks good, professional, and modern, not something that looks.. well.. !!!!...

and if he doesn't need mysql etc etc, fine, but dreamweaver is still 1000% times better for a basic website, as it codes things nearly correctly, whereas frontpage triples the page size with opening and closing tags all the damn time, when you don't actually need to do things like that if you used css, so therefore loading faster, and basically coded properly, which adheres to the minimum w3c standards..

but what do i know, i only run a small web design business.. i must be using the wrong software even for the most basic websites

M

All frontpage websites work on IE, just not anything else
Frontpage doesn't make sites look crap. Design wise, there is very little realistic features that can be done in Dreamweaver but not frontpage. Design wise, graphics are most important, and in that case I'd recommend Fireworks.
However it is incredibly easy to integrate fireworks graphics into dreamweaver.
For someone getting used to web design, their would be no difference in the quality of the site.

True that frontpage bloats your websites, but all I use it for is tables, which it doesn't seem to bloat.

Designing websites for other people is completely different than doing it for other people.

dkmulvey

As another alternative, you could try KompoZer.

Completely free, and for my (admittedly modest) web design requirements, has proved to be more than up to the job.

M4RKM

tables are instant bloat though. the only thing that should be made in tables, is tabular data, not the whole layout of the website

and are you sure things work in IE8 (beta), as this is (hopefully) the first web standards IE browser, whereas before IE has had it's own set of rules (bugs)

M

Pssst

I'm no web page design expert but ive used frontpage and now im on dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is clearly the better product and i dont think FP is being further developed anyway?

Having said that,DW is pricey and i was a naughty boy and got a copy.

The OP could do some basic design using free software.

The bit most people dont understand of course is the whole ftp thang..

DW handles that bit beautifully