website Building

This may sound stupid but I'm a bit of a dumb fuck with some aspects of compueters. And I'd like to get my own website sometime So I'd really appreciate if you guys cud tell me what software and programs and shit I need for making a website. Obviously not too hard cos I know nothing about it.

Thanks very much.

Photoshop and dreamweaver is all a n00b needs

It's impossible to go wrong with those two.

I use FrontPage mostly.... noobish but does the job great. And Frontpage 2003 has some nice updates.

And for the gfx I use Mikey

cheers guys

Although I always hear people talk about templates. They sound easy. Any of you guys can give me some info on where I can get a good template and what do I put the template on?

I think the best thing for a n00b to learn is tables. Tables can make and break a website. If you use them right they can make it kick ass and all fit. And also I am a big fan of Iframes

we made our own website me and tom from scratch try like www.freetemplates.com or something but once u learn how 2 do everything making your own template looks better check ours out www.lunatiksvideo.com

I like man. Very swish. You need to get rid of that free counter though... makes it look cheap.

again I have to say dreamweaver and photoshop

I gotta learn Dreamweaver or Frontpage or something decent but just can't be bothered with tutorials.

hey dex, if you want to use a template then check out: zymic.com

best for free templates

Frontpage outputs the biggest load of bullshit HTML, the WYSIWYG editor sucks also. Using tables in WYSIWYG mode in dreamweaver is easy as hell also

TBH, at the end of the day, unless you want to code in php, using dreamweaver is as good as straight typing the html, even better as its faster

yeah for coding use dreamweaver. but I use frontpage mostly, and yeah gazaa is write you get your code perfect and them frontpage is like "ok lets stick aload of shit code that no one needs right in the middle!" fucking microsoft!

And silly tags like <font></font> are so stupid

omg yeah, when I reveal tags on frontpage you can see all the shit that has been added. such gaylords!

I agree that FP uses loads of crap code and stuff that is not needed. But its failsafe.

Also I am so damn used to it now and when I last tried to moved to dw I just got lost. I would rather use notepad then dw myself as I understand html more that way

ditto..

I think there is a tool you can get to take the shit code out....

I think id prob save loads of diskspace on my server if I used it

yeah there is, there is a patch you can download from the microsoft updates site which gets rod of all the shit.

Fireworks is pretty easy for a newbie too - especially if you are going to use Dreamweaver. They work together pretty well. You can do a design in Fireworks complete with rollovers, image swapping etc and then it will export all the graphics and create the HTML and JavaScript for you. You just need to open it up in Dreamweaver and away you go!

When you get to know your way around you can use Dreamweaver to do manual coding which is much neater but it's a goot start point. Dreamweaver copes with CSS and has nice error checking.

I don't get on with Frontpage and I find the Dreamweaver coding seems much neater. There are other proggies around but these are probably the most common.

My problem is I need to learn Flash but I'm always too busy...

No need for tutorials! I taught myself, no reason you can't.

same here ^^
if u learn Photoshop too u can make some kick ass sites..

if you want to design you have to learn how to use a photoshop

Photoshop and Dreamweaver..with those skills.you can have a sic website..maybe some PHP and stuff like that 2.

adem and wilbur got me started with fireworks and dreamweaver, I just messed around and asked a few questions, and now I can do pretty much everything by myself now, but Im still learning.

Okies, I'll give it a try sometime. Main reason why I gave up was cause I couldn't figure out I-frames...And thats pretty basic so I thought fuck this.


I noes photoshop foo!

I do mine in paintshop rather than photoshop

dreamweaver and PS