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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.
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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!
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11-28-2006, 05:40 PM
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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.
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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.
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11-28-2006, 09:35 PM
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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.
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frontpage is evil. don't go there.
what kind of site? Have you considered an open source CMS like drupal (www.drupal.org)? |
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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
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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...)
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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...)
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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.
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ah...also....must run on windows... but not everyone speaks UN*X
Boo windows, Yeah Beer!
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Like ID said, all you need is WAMP. http://www.wampserver.com/en/
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11-29-2006, 06:03 AM
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Wamp looks sweet, but i dont have controll of the Server.
just making pages.
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