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Hi,
I am an absolute beginner in designing web sites
What is your advice for a software to design small web sites for personnal use ?
Thanks for letting me know your experiences
Jean
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mtorbin 
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Posted 03 May 2004 - 12:02 PM
Jean,
To be quite honest, that's a very broad question. There are so many factors that come into play:
1) What is your skill level now?
2) What do you want it to be in a year?
3) What kind of web sites are you thinking about building (more specific than personal)?
4) What kind of Mac do you have now?
5) What are you financial limitations?
I will be glad to answer these for you. Either reply to this post, AIM me at DGTLBY or email me.
- MT
To be quite honest, that's a very broad question. There are so many factors that come into play:
1) What is your skill level now?
2) What do you want it to be in a year?
3) What kind of web sites are you thinking about building (more specific than personal)?
4) What kind of Mac do you have now?
5) What are you financial limitations?
I will be glad to answer these for you. Either reply to this post, AIM me at DGTLBY or email me.
- MT
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Posted 09 May 2004 - 08:32 AM
Sorry for not answering your questions sooner but my first reply got lost somewhere !
To cut long story short:
I am pretty good working with macs ( 15 years of experience)
My knowledge on web design is close to zero
What I want to do is set up a small ( 15-20 pages ) web site for a non profit making organization
it would be nice if it good manage a discussion forum and a news letter mailed on a monthly basis to registered members so it should be able to manage an adress book , I have been looking into mysql which should do the trick without reinveting the wheel
Can I host the site locally ( home ) on a dedicated mac ( I have adsl) or should I host it somewhere
Cost has to be minimal as I we have very little money to spend ( NPMO)
Thanks for your help and advices
Jean
To cut long story short:
I am pretty good working with macs ( 15 years of experience)
My knowledge on web design is close to zero
What I want to do is set up a small ( 15-20 pages ) web site for a non profit making organization
it would be nice if it good manage a discussion forum and a news letter mailed on a monthly basis to registered members so it should be able to manage an adress book , I have been looking into mysql which should do the trick without reinveting the wheel
Can I host the site locally ( home ) on a dedicated mac ( I have adsl) or should I host it somewhere
Cost has to be minimal as I we have very little money to spend ( NPMO)
Thanks for your help and advices
Jean
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iloveitaly
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Posted 10 May 2004 - 05:13 AM
macromedia dreamweaver & Adobe ImageReady (comes w/photoshop) would probobly do the trick. Although if ur on a budget maybe get photoshop elements. Although for discussion boards use http://www.phpbb.com its free and good. PHPbb includes a mailing list feature, a member list and all that cool stuff.
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Posted 11 May 2004 - 06:50 AM
I am a newbee to Web design, too. I am a Print designer of over 10 years, and learning Web is like learning Chinese ... it's a totally different world.
Despite popular opinion, I think Dreamweaver is cumbersome and hard to understand. Having used Adobe products for so long, I've found GoLive to be great. There's little-to-no code knowledge needed, and Adobe has created the interface with Graphic Designers (not Techies) in mind.
I wasn't sure if GoLive CS was as polished as DW, until a friend of mine showed me his eZine: http://luminomagazine.com/ It's all designed with GoLive CS, and looks/works great.
This also got me thinking of the whole Form vs. Function debate. Seems to me that there's a lot of great looking sites out there that have crap for content, or are so clever that they miss their objective: To communicate. Stuff to keep in mind before you make your purchase.
I downloaded the Dreamweaver trial, too, just to see how it worked out. But compared to GoLive CS, it was a let down (after all the hype DW gets).
My two cents.
Despite popular opinion, I think Dreamweaver is cumbersome and hard to understand. Having used Adobe products for so long, I've found GoLive to be great. There's little-to-no code knowledge needed, and Adobe has created the interface with Graphic Designers (not Techies) in mind.
I wasn't sure if GoLive CS was as polished as DW, until a friend of mine showed me his eZine: http://luminomagazine.com/ It's all designed with GoLive CS, and looks/works great.
This also got me thinking of the whole Form vs. Function debate. Seems to me that there's a lot of great looking sites out there that have crap for content, or are so clever that they miss their objective: To communicate. Stuff to keep in mind before you make your purchase.
I downloaded the Dreamweaver trial, too, just to see how it worked out. But compared to GoLive CS, it was a let down (after all the hype DW gets).
My two cents.
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