best easiest software to create website?

[Jo1]

Hi all i want to set up a website. I would like to include video files in it so people could look at film clips etc. aswell as pictures, sound.Could anyone advise me what is the easiest and best software to use so i can do this. The simpler the better really. I do have microsoft office 2000. I wouldnt be able to write programming im not technical like that. Thanks

 

[pgp_protector]

Best or Easiest

Joking

If you've got the Cash Dreamweaver works well.

Or if you want a simpler solution, you could go with a CMS site & just download a skin for the site.

 

[peanutbutter12]

Dreamweaver if you want the site to develop and look good.

www.joomla.org is a free one. I've not used it. A friend showed it to me. Dunno anything about it

CJ

 

[kiwimac]

Might also try NVU

 

[macrohard]

If its basic, for personal use, you probably can get by with NVU.....

Nice thing, it doesnt cost anything...

 

[raphink]

The idea of a CMS is good imo. It allows you to set a whole portal (home page, forums, wiki, gallery, blog, and about whatever modules you might want to add to your website).

CMS are not programs to make websites, they are dynamic websites that can be adapted to your needs with a backoffice interface.

http://www.opensourcecms.com lists open-source CMS. Wordpress (blog only), Joomla and Drupal are probably the most famous ones.

As of making a website yourself, I would recommend learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript and even some PHP and using a simple notepad program to fully understand what you're doing. Learning this and practicing on little websites will allow you to then add nice contents to CMS interfaces.

 

[csheppard91]

Notepad.

HTML,CSS and php can be picked up in less than a week.

 

[pgp_protector]

Notepad.

HTML,CSS and php can be picked up in less than a week.

While yes notepad will work, it's sorta like using MS Paint to create art over Photoshop.
Yes you can use it & create great work, for the average user Photoshop will work better. The same with Web development. Yes you can create a masterpeace with notepad, the Average user can do better with a WYSIWYG editor then a text editor.



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WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get (like Dreamweaver)

 

[raphink]

While yes notepad will work, it's sorta like using MS Paint to create art over Photoshop.
Yes you can use it & create great work, for the average user Photoshop will work better. The same with Web development. Yes you can create a masterpeace with notepad, the Average user can do better with a WYSIWYG editor then a text editor.



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WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get (like Dreamweaver)

I'm afraid I don't agree at all. Such horrible websites are created with programs like DreamWeaver, FrontPage and such... I wouldn't compare with Photoshop at all, because working on an image is not coding. Generated code is very often much more dirty than code written by hand. From my experience, WYSIWYG webpage generators tend to generate pages with lots of unused tags, absolute positionned divs all around, and are eventually only compatible with a few versions of some web browsers. I personally use Quanta, which is more of a web IDE with a WYSIWYG optional interface. I don't know any equivalent of it for Windows though...

 

[peanutbutter12]

Notepad.

HTML,CSS and php can be picked up in less than a week.

I find it amusing that the majority of people who say to use Notepad to build webpages never do themselves, nor do they know how.

I'm afraid I don't agree at all. Such horrible websites are created with programs like DreamWeaver, FrontPage and such... I wouldn't compare with Photoshop at all, because working on an image is not coding. Generated code is very often much more dirty than code written by hand. From my experience, WYSIWYG webpage generators tend to generate pages with lots of unused tags, absolute positionned divs all around, and are eventually only compatible with a few versions of some web browsers. I personally use Quanta, which is more of a web IDE with a WYSIWYG optional interface. I don't know any equivalent of it for Windows though...

I have to defend Dreamweaver as it's the most widely used among professional web designers and it also has very good code building so that the page doesn't end up a messy nightmare. Granted, you can mess anything up if you don't know how to use it properly, but after a little training, you can expertly build pages in a snap.

I'm actually very interested to see what DW9 is going to offer now that Adobe owns Macromedia and if Fireworks will be phased out in favor of Photoshop.

CJ

 

[Psalms34]

I can make a website with notepad, but it's not the easiest.

I agree with the CMS. Easiest one to install imo is Limbo which is a Mambo derivative. I like Wordpress the most and Mambo a close second. For forums, I like Simple Machines forum (SMF) and there is a bridge for SMF to WordPress and Mambo (so you can use the same accounts). It's easier than making a website if you keep it simple.