making a website

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andretfernandes

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Hi,
I want to make my website, but I don't know anything about webdesign.
I heard that dreamweaver is a good program, but frontpage is better for newbies.

Which one do you recomend?? Is frontpage really better for beginners, or can I begin already using dreamweaver?
 
You can use either, but you probably have not checked the price of them :P
Get a good book that covers HTML and get NVU as your editor (free)
 
There are many sites that help with HTML, which i find much easier cause you can copy/paste. Just google it and you'll find what your look for.
 
it depends upon the version since dreamweaver mx is better than frontpage 2000. now,frontpage 2003 is quite better than dreamweaver since you can't find hard time doing table just like what dreamweaver disadvantage. But if you are a newbie,you must first understand the basics of HTML,notepad is readily available for your windows platform. If you understand the orthodox of each tags, then dreamweaver is a good software for you.
 
If you buy Frontpage you will just want to change to DW later, so you may as well start with that.

You could start out using Dreamweaver and some free templates that you can download many places on the internet. You can start out by "filling in the blanks" changing the info to what you want. Then play with moving things around, starting new paragraphs, inserting images, things like that.

If you are a student you can buy an academic version of Dreamweaver for much cheaper than retail pricing.
 
Dreamweaver is one of the best but to actually make a good website you need a lot of different programs. You will need fireworks or photophop if you want a nice design and for interactivity and otehr stuff you will want flash as well. Making a good website takes a lot of time and skill. If you can afford it I would suggest Macromedia Suite MX 2004 Education version. It is very expensive but it has all the programs you will need to make an amazing website. If you ever need some help http://www.tutorialized.com/ has lots of tutorials and their is lots of forums dedicated to web design.
 
Frontpage

I would recommend Frontpage simply because of its ease of use. It is extremely easy to newbies to start right up and begin creating a web site. It has great features, also. So my nod goes to Microsoft Frontpage :) .
 
691175002 said:
Dreamweaver is one of the best but to actually make a good website you need a lot of different programs. You will need fireworks or photophop if you want a nice design and for interactivity and otehr stuff you will want flash as well. Making a good website takes a lot of time and skill. If you can afford it I would suggest Macromedia Suite MX 2004 Education version. It is very expensive but it has all the programs you will need to make an amazing website. If you ever need some help http://www.tutorialized.com/ has lots of tutorials and their is lots of forums dedicated to web design.
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I would have to agree. Studio MX will give you all of the programs to keep you busy for a long time...especially when you start playing around with Flash.
 
MattL said:
I would have to agree. Studio MX will give you all of the programs to keep you busy for a long time...especially when you start playing around with Flash.
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Lol so true. I have been using flash for almost 2 years and I still have only touched the surface of what it can do...
 
After being away from Flash for like a year and coming back in I got frustrated and bought SWISHmax. I need to know how to do so many different things as a web designer/developer that to get really good at Flash just requires more time than I have.
 
MattL said:
After being away from Flash for like a year and coming back in I got frustrated and bought SWISHmax. I need to know how to do so many different things as a web designer/developer that to get really good at Flash just requires more time than I have.
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Normally thats why people work in teams. I can use dreamweaver a bit but I manily focus on flash (and now director). I know I could build a flash only site (I'm working on one for my school) but I found director more suited to it (because it allows you to link to cast members/movie clips). You have no idea how frustrating it is to try to switch because all the code structure is the same but the language is just different enough to give you some nice errors if you arent paying attention...
 
of the two dreamweaver wins, no contest, i've used dw for years starting when i knew nothing. with time you're gonna end up doing a lot of your coding by hand anyway, by wysiwg editors can be good because you can see how your actions in a visual environment effect the code. i'd recommend getting a free text editor (notepad will do but there are far better ones out there) i use vim. it's free, it's good. a beggining webdesigner should just do lots of tutorials and lots of reading. pixel2life.com has great info and tuts.
 
I'd recommend FrontPage becasue its better for "Newbies". It will help you find your feet but if you want to plounge into professional web creation, which would ofcourse be Dreamweaver.
 
I'd use a text editor with HTML, CSS and Javascript highlighting. WYSIWYG doesn't teach you what you should know about the workings of web pages.

Take a look at HTML Dog to learn HTML and CSS. Also, look at Notepad2 if you're using Windows.
 
i find frontpage to be the best, although you can get a 30-day demo for dreamweaver and adobe go live.
 
This is what would do, either get or buy a nice looking template and edit it with notepad, even if you know nothing about html you can guess what to change, and also work with guess and check. This is what i have done with a few of my sites, I learn more and more html each time. I get to know what all the code an differnt tags do.
 
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