web buliding

[abushcrafter]

HELP ME i am trying to build a web site. i have found that you can build with; microsoft word and "my free website builder" http://www.myfreewebsitebuilder.com/

also http://www.piczo.com/?cr=3&rfm=y ,but i haven't got a acount thouth yet. (not shore).

and this;

http://www.flashvortex.com/

http://cooltext.com/Buttons

http://www.statcounter.com/

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/answers/be-a-better/computer-whiz.html

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http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

:why:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

http://www.webforumz.com/

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

http://perso.crans.org/~raffo/aem/index.php

http://www.google.com/addurl/

http://www.freegeardesign.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.reutera.com/Flash-Sound-Buttons/

http://www.netobjects.com/html/essentials.html
stuff from posts and more of my links
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as you may have gest i want it to be WITH easy nav and good grafics AND 1 LEFT FRAME FOR LINKS

http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_frame_cols

SO CAN YOU HELP ME __________________me :notworthy of you

 

[Wayland]

I did all my sites with NetObjects Fusion.

It comes free with 1and1 packages

See for yourself

 

[Dr Onion]

There is always JOOMLA

I've used it once or twice in tandem with dreamweaver and fireworks (plus basic raw coding)

Very easy to use and customise

Dr O

 

[Shewie]

I did all my sites with NetObjects Fusion.

It comes free with 1and1 packages

See for yourself

I`ll second Waylands advice for NetObjects Fusion, used this for a number of sites for work purposes. Very easy format to get your head around.


Rich

 

[Tadpole]

Download a free copy of dreamweaver, (30 day trial) get a free .css template either two or three column, build your site. Try to use the ‘split view’ in Dreamweaver. Half design half code, that way when the trial runs out you know enough code to edit your site using notebook. (Don’t use winword as it put in lots of complicated code that makes the site look untidy

 

[Nightwalker]

Dont use Word to do web-design whatever you do! It bulks out code and is a nightmare.

I've used both Frontpage & Dreamweaver professionally in the past, I like both and they do the job.

Im intrigued by this 'NetObjects Fusion' I've never heard about it before, a little research shows that its paid software, but "In November 2007, the basic version NetObjects Fusion Essentials was introduced for free download." So I'll have to check that out. I would love to come across a decent web-authoring package that I liked and that was free! Hopefully the 'baisc' version isnt to restricting.

Oh and please resample the images on your website! See this thread.

 

[DoctorSpoon]

I too must stress DON"T USE WORD ... it's a nightmare!! I just had a quick look at NetObjects Fusion and it looks a good basic package for free: http://www.netobjects.com/html/essentials.html and if I was in your position I'd give it a go.

When I used to design web sites for a living and used a PC I loved a programme called HotMetal Pro as it wrote such clean code that was easy to tweak, but sadly it got discontinued. When I went over to the Mac, I tried Dreamweaver but didn't like it as it produced a site that looks 'dreamweavered' which is not to my personal taste! So, now I use Adobe GoLive which does the job (see Robin's site http://www.robin-wood.co.uk ) but it ain't marvellous. Any suggestions for something good that runs on a mac?

 

[Nightwalker]

Good luck with your project. Oh and please dont start poll's that aren't needed

 

[Wayland]

Most of my Lore and Saga site was produced with NetObjects Fusion 2 which was much less capable than the Essentials package.

I'm glad it's now free because I've set quite a few people up on it with old magazine disks and it's great for people that don't need all the bells and whistles but can easily get thier head around the NOF. interface.

Tried Dreamweaver a while back but I couldn't make head nor tail of it. Far to complicated for a mortal like me.

 

[big_swede]

I've used nvu, (www.nvudev.com) , free open and compatible with joomla.

 

[Tadpole]

I too must stress DON"T USE WORD ... it's a nightmare!! I just had a quick look at NetObjects Fusion and it looks a good basic package for free: http://www.netobjects.com/html/essentials.html and if I was in your position I'd give it a go.

When I used to design web sites for a living and used a PC I loved a programme called HotMetal Pro as it wrote such clean code that was easy to tweak, but sadly it got discontinued. When I went over to the Mac, I tried Dreamweaver but didn't like it as it produced a site that looks 'dreamweavered' which is not to my personal taste! So, now I use Adobe GoLive which does the job (see Robin's site http://www.robin-wood.co.uk ) but it ain't marvellous. Any suggestions for something good that runs on a mac?

I would suggest that you don't have your email as whatever@dot.com but make it a
Click-able image/picture, it will cut down on the spam you get, 90% of which is generated by spiderbots that look email addresses on the net and either spam them to death (my own site generates 200 spam emails a day) or use it to hack/crack or flimflam others into posting

 

[Wayland]

I'd second that one. Wish I'd sussed it earlier though....

 

[giancarlo]

The clickable image/picture routine still isn't very effective these days guys.
Robots can see it in the source.
Even if you use Javascript encrypted one apparently some can still get it.

One way is to use a CAPTCHA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha ), those boxes with the strange word / number combinations.

This is good one, since it helps computers translate unknown words in books
http://recaptcha.net/

 

[gregorach]

Sorry, did you just say "Javascript encrypted"?

Excuse me...

 

[Tadpole]

The clickable image/picture routine still isn't very effective these days guys.
Robots can see it in the source.
Even if you use Javascript encrypted one apparently some can still get it.

One way is to use a CAPTCHA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha ), those boxes with the strange word / number combinations.

This is good one, since it helps computers translate unknown words in books
http://recaptcha.net/

most users feel that is too much trouble there is a way I've recently seen called munging
http://perso.crans.org/~raffo/aem/index.php
it replaces the letters with the encoded ascii
so my email become<A HREF= &'#109;&'#97;&'#105;&'#108;&'#116;&'#111;&'#58;
&'#109;&'#97;&'#115;&'#116;&'#101;&'#114;&'#102;&'#114;&'#111;&'#103;&'#103;&'#121;@&'#103;&'#109;&'#97;&'#105;&'#108;&'#46;&'#99;&'#111;&'#109</a>
in the source code, but shows up on the website as
masterfroggy@gmail.com"

 

[Wayland]

I post a graphic of the email address and make people type it in if they want to talk to me..

 

[Nightwalker]

A email graphic/image on its own isnt to bad. But dont link it like previously mentioned, spam-bots see the 'mailto:your@email.com' in the source straight away, so defeats the object.

I have javascript protection code that I've used for a couple of years and has stopped any spammers as from getting through.

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
emailE=('yourname@' + 'emailserver.com')
document.write('<A href="mailto:' + emailE + '">' + emailE + '</a>')
 //-->
</script>

<NOSCRIPT>
    <em>Email address protected by JavaScript.<BR>
    Please enable JavaScript to contact me.</em>
</NOSCRIPT>

 

[abushcrafter]

note to self must repliy with post

 

[Matthew.Passmore]

I use dreamweaver and write my own CSS, try the 30 day trial like mentioned its harder than using a builder but much better.

 

[Nightwalker]

I've just noticed your age abushcrafter, if you are infact 12, well on you for trying your hand at web-design, I too was tinkering with HTML at that age I would recommend Microsoft Frontpage for begginers.