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pls advise on good starter prog for web page creation...

Glen S

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

Hello all, new to the group. If this group is not the best place to pose
this question, feel free to recommend others...

I have built a couple of simple pages using front page, which did the
trick for what I wanted to do at the time. However I have been
approached to build a commercial page and I want to start delving in to
things like flash, java etc.. to make something with a little more
"pizzazz" and am not sure which is the best program I can use to get
pleasing results in a reasonable time frame. I am tinkering with Mozilla
composer as I write this, and have downloaded but not tried dreamweaver.

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance

David Dorward

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

Glen S wrote:

> I have built a couple of simple pages using front page, which did the
> trick for what I wanted to do at the time. However I have been
> approached to build a commercial page and I want to start delving in to
> things like flash,

Macromedia Flash is probably the best tool for creating flash content.

> java

Emacs, Jedit, Vim. Some people like Eclipse. Ant is useful as a project
manager.

> etc.. to make something with a little more
> "pizzazz" and am not sure which is the best program I can use to get
> pleasing results in a reasonable time frame.

Depends how you define "pleasing" and what a reasonable time frame is.

> I am tinkering with Mozilla
> composer as I write this, and have downloaded but not tried dreamweaver.
>
> Any other ideas or suggestions?

Avoid programs that try to generate HTML from graphical hints (i.e.
so-called WYSIWYG eeditors).

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Kevin Wainwright

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

try using the newest version of dreamweaver and havea go with frontpage as
well althought notepad is good for just creating the HTML code but it does
depend on whether you wish to WYSIWYG or go into pure code

> Hello all, new to the group. If this group is not the best place to pose
> this question, feel free to recommend others...
>
> I have built a couple of simple pages using front page, which did the
> trick for what I wanted to do at the time. However I have been
> approached to build a commercial page and I want to start delving in to
> things like flash, java etc.. to make something with a little more
> "pizzazz" and am not sure which is the best program I can use to get
> pleasing results in a reasonable time frame. I am tinkering with Mozilla
> composer as I write this, and have downloaded but not tried dreamweaver.
>
> Any other ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance

Glen S

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

Kevin Wainwright wrote:

> try using the newest version of dreamweaver and havea go with frontpage as
> well althought notepad is good for just creating the HTML code but it does
> depend on whether you wish to WYSIWYG or go into pure code
>
>
>
>
>
thanks all for the replies

Being a total html neophyte I will likely be sticking to WYSIWYG for
now, I've downloaded dreamweaver trial but not had a chance to play with
it yet. In my limited exp. I have found FP to be effective, albeit
rather "clunky" for lack of a better term.

I have heard that there are several competent "free" prog's out there
that will get one started, but have yet to find such a program.

Roderik

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

Glen S wrote:
> Kevin Wainwright wrote:
>
> thanks all for the replies
>
> Being a total html neophyte I will likely be sticking to WYSIWYG for
> now, I've downloaded dreamweaver trial but not had a chance to play with
> it yet. In my limited exp. I have found FP to be effective, albeit
> rather "clunky" for lack of a better term.
>
> I have heard that there are several competent "free" prog's out there
> that will get one started, but have yet to find such a program.
>
Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Adobe Golive CS will be the best ones (but maybe
quite expensive) to try. They are the industry leaders, provide a lot of
possibilities in both coding view and WYSIWYG style. Frontpage wont be
my first choice, it is more developed from the office kind of view and
not really from the web development kind of view. For people that are
not familiar to web development and work a lot on Windows this might be
more easy but if you are a web developer this will frustrate you after
some time. The more you get experienced the more you will think in code
and you will be programming source code for about 95% of the time.
That's why a lot of people even advise you to use notepad (but it does
not provide syntax highlighting and code insight so it is more difficult
to use than other tools).

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rEs

2004-09-24, 7:28 pm

I'm trying out "Actual Drawing" from www.pysoft.com
check it out

>Any other ideas or suggestions?

Hugh

2004-10-06, 7:15 pm

rEs <resres3@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<qrlqj0dbku0knc1r2huq8i69f77e6cr84i@4ax.com>...[color=darkred]
> I'm trying out "Actual Drawing" from www.pysoft.com
> check it out
>
>

I've discover a new kind of softwares to create web pages:
One of them is PAS PageBuilder, you can try it at
http://www.htmlfusion.com/

Its web based like a site creator but packed with a lot features
(style sheet, includes, layers...) and extra applications (forums,
forms, paypal, shoping cart, registration, news letter manager...)

I use it everyday to create sites for my customers and I love it.

Hugh