Building my first site -Advice please.

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I'd like to start learning the basics of web design so I can eventually build my own site. The main focus will be a place to host my photography but I'd like to start from the beginning so I get a good knowledge base.

First two questions are:

What package should I use to create the webside. Something fairly easy to start with?

I have a NAS drive with hosting capability. Would using this be better than an online host to start with?


Any help would be great :)
 
Most will recommend a decent text editor to create the site, something like Notepad++ on Windows. Code the site by hand rather than using a software package.

I found W3Schools to be a good place to start.
 
The last coding I did was in 1994 at college and I wasn't that great at it!

I'll take a look at the link and see how I get on :)
 
I use Geany for PHP, seems good. Host my stuff on my machine that also serves them all up to the net. Great for doing development as I only do it for fun.
 
Notepad++ gets my vote, and use either Opera with Dragonfly, or Firefox with Firebug for debuggering.

There's also a program called Topstyle link here: http://www.topstyle4.com/
It's cheap, and doesn't write code for you, but has a host of handy tools to speed up the job, such as a decent colour picker and pallette manager, and nice autocomplete for CSS, which is handier than you'd think for picking out image files and remembering obscure properties.
 
It's best to start off with XHTML/HTML and then do a bit of CSS. I started learning using www.pagetutor.com about 8 years ago and found everything on there much more useful than my uni. degree...

www.cssplay.co.uk is good once you get a bit more advanced.

I use Visual Web Developer (a free download from Microsoft), is Notepad++ better than that? I coded everything in Notepad up until a couple of years ago so once I upgraded the text highlighting made things much easier. I wouldn't recommend using the design view of anything like Dreamweaver or Frontpage as it adds a load of crappy code.
 
Notepad++ is basically Notepad with added extras such as syntax highlighting and multiple tabbed windows, so I imagine it's similar to Visual Web Developer.

Agreed about Dreamweaver/Frontpage - too bloated.
 
cotton31 said:
Notepad++ is basically Notepad with added extras such as syntax highlighting and multiple tabbed windows, so I imagine it's similar to Visual Web Developer.

Agreed about Dreamweaver/Frontpage - too bloated.
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hehe. And VWD isn't bloated? ;)

Dreamweaver is fine if you're using the code view.
 
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