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Dewm
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Hey i'm looking at making a website, I know a little programming, but not near enough to actually make a site, so I was looking around for a program that has templates and stuff, and i'm wondering if any of you have done this before, and which one you would recomend.
I need......
Web email
search engine listing
The ability to move stuff around on the page (AKA most of these templates make it so you can't move your heading around, or your logo, or any of that stuff)
Thanks!
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Use dreamweaver, and sign up at tierra.net for hosting.
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't dreamweaver a HTML based program? that requires programing knowlege?
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Yes it is, but HTML makes webpages last I checked.
And, you dont really need to know programming. Just mess around for like 1-2 hours or look at a dreamweaver tut / walkthrough. Might take an hour ans you should get everything that you need. The amount of hardcoding you have to do is minimal at best, usually its just to add "p align="center" or something.
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HTML and Programming knowledge?
HTML is nothing. Think of HTML a the cardboard box that's full of parts and somehow you have to build an airplane. Writing HTML is like opening the box. If you don't know HTML already, then you might want to start there. It's extremely simplistic compared to the other things you want.
HTML is barely even scripting, much less programming.You're not even going to be able to use a template, if you don't know it.
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Microsoft Frontpage is another good program.
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Frontpage has been deprecated. Microsoft's new web editor is called Expression Web; a different beast altogether and apart of the Expression suite rather than Office.
Dewm, you should take a few hours and learn some basic HTML. You can grasp at least the syntax within that amount of time, and much more through learning experience.
Once you have a basic understanding of HTML, definitely go for a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Expression Web; whichever is cheaper. Or even use a freeware WYSIWYG editor.
For things like 'web email', you aren't going to accomplish in any editor or with HTML. Those are just pure presentation and you'd need some server-side programming to accomplish an application like that within your site. So you'd be looking at learning ASP.NET, or PHP, or Ruby, etc.
Basically that's kind of advanced and at that point, you're looking at maybe researching web site builder apps a lot of resellers host.
Optionally you could opt to learn a Content Management System like Drupal or Joomla, both free. Most shared hosting providers you go to probably even have application installers that'll auto configure things like Joomla so you can hop into the backend and use its WYSIWYG editor.
So how about starting with finding a shared hosting provider first, and then checking out whether they include a website builder or application installer featured with some products/things you like?
Use Joomla. It's a fairly simple CMS platform that can be modified with a little more in depth knowledge of web programming.
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Programming websites is a waste unless you plan on have unchanging content.
CMS (Content Management System) is the way to go.
Top 3
1) Drupal
2) Wordpress
3) Joomla
Although Wordpress is primarily a blogging CMS, it is easily converted to anything you need.
Joomla is popular, and therefore has a large user base and forums with helpful users.
If you are serious, then find a host so you have an actual .com so your website is mywebsite.com and not mywebsite/somefreehost. com.
Most hosting services will have something like Joomla which is a CMS, content management system.
If for some reason you don't like Joomla, pick another CMS.
Joomla, php nuke, and Drupla are examples of CMS's.
I agree with Sabiancym, go with Joomla.
Once you decide on a CMS, there will be many templates to choose from, either free, or for a small fee.
Just search for "joomla template" and you will find a bazillion of them. Why reinvent the wheel?