Webmasters, Help
 

is that term even in use anymore.

any who

i have been volunteered to maintain and design a web site, content updates will be 2 x a month...no crazy stuff like flash or Shockwaves.

but.. must be manageable so 2 or 3 people will be able to work together.

My experience stems from NCSA mosaic and Netscape 0.9. The last thing i did was in HTML 2.0 when i still coded in vi.

So , i need a web designing / publishing /managing software that easily manageable.

someone mentioned FrontPage...but, am willing to entertain non MS products.

any suggestions.

If the site is static HTML use Dreamweaver or Contribute. Contribute is a lite version of Dreamweaver. Much less capability but much lower entry cost and learning curve. Avoid FrontPage at all costs!

emacs :)


Windows or Mac, use Dreamweaver. No cost, Free, and any other OS use nvu or mozilla composer and a good editor, be it vi(m), emacs, kwrite, etc.

I work with several sites and use Frontpage but hate it.

Now working overseas and brought a copy of Dreamweaver with me and trying to get the hang of it in my spare time. Damm, its so complicated that so far its a handful but hope I can wean myself off of Frontpage.

I use Dreamweaver and think very highly of it. You can go pure wysiwyg or pure code. There's a brief learning curve, but after that it is very intuitive and quite powerful. I recommend buying templates to get going so you can focus on content and not design. Look at www.plumley.org as an example. It's a $15 template that I modified.

Stay away from FrontPage - nasty stuff - leaves all sorts of bogus directories, weird files, cruddy stuff everywhere. Yuk.

frontpage is evil. don't go there.

what kind of site? Have you considered an open source CMS like drupal (www.drupal.org)?

I have considered opensource, but I need something easy to use, cause:
A, i am a volunteer (this shoudn't take up much of my time)
B, i need to make sure I can show others how to use it.
C, I dont know what server we are going to be running on , but i bet its windows cause, i see ".htm" every where.

But i will look and try...
Templates...hmmm sounds tastey...
will look too

pmajka - just .htm files don't indicate windows... besides, you can do a WAMP setup no problem as well (windows, apache, mysql, php). Seriously consider a CMS... there are many good free and Free ones (I'd go with Mambo myself...)

pmajka - just .htm files don't indicate windows... besides, you can do a WAMP setup no problem as well (windows, apache, mysql, php). Seriously consider a CMS... there are many good free and Free ones (I'd go with Mambo myself...)

CMS, definately. I actually prefer Joomla to Mambo, same source code but the Joomla guys fixed a couple of things that bugged the hell out of me in Mambo.

Scott

ah...also....must run on windows... but not everyone speaks UN*X


Boo windows, Yeah Beer!

Like ID said, all you need is WAMP. http://www.wampserver.com/en/

Wamp looks sweet, but i dont have controll of the Server.

just making pages.