Help creating a site! Please dont laugh at the noobie ;)

Maybejustmaybe

Maybejustmaybe

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Hiya guys,

Ok, done something rather stupid......... told Father in law I could probably knock up a website for him.. not happening :(


I downloaded the 30 day trial of Dreamweaver CS4 (Good job its a bloody trial if I had paid for it i'd be a little miffed :mad:) as I found a lot of people giving DWCS4 a good writeup but there probably HTML Guru's lol

Anyways, is there someone here that has a couple of hours I can reward with a few Paypal pints of ale, and could help me out?

I've already sorted a domain name and hosting asit was going to happen whether it was me or someone else, I just need help now to set it up as its all gobble da gooky to me

I can say that I have got the site hosted with FASTHOSTS who also have a neat SITE BUILDER application for people like me.... the only trouble is its pretty basic

If I tell you what i've done so far.... u can choose to help.. or not lol I wouldnt blame you either... god im such a pillock!

Dad runs a car restoration business, its doing "OK" but not brilliantly, and he wanted to get site up n running to basically show some of his work, little info on the company ect ect and I said YEAH no problem!

I had a couple of things on the PC already, Anim-FX and Mix-FX which if you dont know are flash based that let you create some effects with no knowledge whatssoever GREAT i thought :o

Created a little FLASH intro that I intended to put on the first page people saw.... and it looked great..... with some flying arrows and the company name.... just to show him something, he was well impressed......

*NOTE TO SELF - DO NOT TRY TO IMPRESS SOMEONE IMPORTANT IF YO CANNOT FOLLOW IT THROUGH!*

So ... site builder.... doesnt support SWF files..... mhhh

phoned em up, they DO support swf, and every other sort of thing under the sun, just not through SITE BUILDER its for basic site creation only, cannot handle things like SWF

So...... I need someone who knows what there doing and could possibly teach me?

If anyones up for a challange, good deed for the day, rewarded in heaven and saving a life.... MINE.... then please let me know ;)

chris
 
Personally I would recomend you try microsoft frontpage 2003 if you can get access to it for free. Everything is easy to use and it is a lot less daunting. Dreamweaver is far far superior but for a beginner its just not quite user friendly enough, imo
 
Matey, if you want to create a site the best way to start out is using HTML and CSS, there are some books and stuff out there that can help with this though the names escape me at the moment.

I find applications like Dreamweaver and Frontpage just make things more complicated than they need to be, all you need to create a site is notepad and some reference material. Use http://www.w3schools.com/ and take a look at ther HTML, XHTML, and CSS tutorials from the menu to see how it works.

Coding a basic site isn't hard but it helps if you have a good brain for design/basic coding as you need to be able to get from thought to reality on screen.

Use HTML to code the content, headers, paragraphs, inputs etc, most of it's pretty basic, you just put tags around the text really.

Use CSS to style the site, how you want it to look. what colours, sizes etc your elements are, everything visual can be controlled with CSS pretty easily, even down to fonts and sizes/colours of the fonts. Best of all is that CSS can be used to change the look of multiple sites very easily if you have more than one page.

Flash intros tend to be gimmicky and I find them tacky generally speaking, people don't need to see flash intros if your site is good enough it will speak for itself. Please bear in mind that it's generally obvious if a site is made by someone that doesn't have a clue, we've all seen them i'm sure ;)

Beyond notepad I would highly recommend you have Adobe Photoshop so you knock up designs with it and choose colour schemes etc more easily.
 
depending on the complexity of the site you promised to provide you could just google for templates and adapt them to your needs as opposed to coding the whole site your self ?

MW
 
I think to be honest I am going to use the site builder and then see how it looks, I didnt promise the earth, im doing it as a favour, so hopefully it will be good enough

Now.... if only I could USE sitebuilder without IE crashing!

another damm problem!

I want to adjust the width of a table, it says click to edit table, I click it, it says click to edit width, I click it, and it crashes lol!
 
i feel for you man but at least this is a good lesson learnt and a lot of hard work put into it?

if you know how try and put the files online so that when you get stuck we can all help you out with it.
 
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