Making Website

Mammalian said:
well if thats the case i have no prolbem in making the site the site for the dad 100% free, only cost would be hosting and domain name though if thats a problem both can be got for free. I odn't really like to discourage people learning new skills espcially if this is a career move from you but if this is just a 1 off, never going back to it sort of thing i'm here to help, plus i've been doing so much javascript latelly would be nice to get back to html for a bit plus i can use all my fancy new skills on something.

Let me know what you think Leon88. email should be in trust and if not it's addy_020@ hotmail.com
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Well for me it will be a 1 off thing my sister once made a little site over the summer for herself using the dreamweaver (she doesn't have a copy otherwise would use it.) and it didnt look to bad i have to say. Its not goin to be a rush sort of project as there is no deadline as such and i would like it to look just right and like you said not to look un professional i should be gettin dreamweaver within the next couple of days or so. It will be a thing to do when i have the time as work at the moment is so busy :( But i will keep updates here and if i have any problems hopefully some of you guys may be of some assistance! if not then im stuffed :p
 
Tell your dad that if he wants something professional looking and something that will actually boost company branding and marketability that he will want to spend a few hundred pounds for a decent attempt at least, one with decent SEO and will get his brand name recognised and networked.

Websites should now not be an after thought for a lot of companies out there, but unfortunately they are. Using www.hmtldog.com, www.cssplay.co.uk, www.cssremix.com and www.456bereastreet.com and observing what his competitors, current design trends, contemporary design and type treatment and experience and you're on your way to creating something half decent.
 
Thanks for the e-text editor mention. I might look at that later.

I'm doing a website for a uni project and I'm using Notepad++. :o

I have found a really good book called The CSS Anthology and it is quite superb. It might be worth buying a book about CSS/XHTML etc and to try and learn from that, if you want to go down the hard-coding route.

I've linked to that site as I don't believe it to be a competitor. Report it if you fancy getting a UB into trouble! :p
 
The CSS Zen Garden have released a book. It is brilliant. It isn't a text book, so you will need some CSS knowledge, but it explains how a lot of the styles were achieved and what thought processes went into it.

Well worth it if you are serious about your CSS :)
 
SiriusB said:
The CSS Zen Garden have released a book. It is brilliant. It isn't a text book, so you will need some CSS knowledge, but it explains how a lot of the styles were achieved and what thought processes went into it.

Well worth it if you are serious about your CSS :)
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Thank you SiriusB, I will look at that. :)
 
just use a free html/css editor (like crimson editor) if you don't want to spend...that's what i do. At work they just gave me adobe suite (dreamweaver, fireworks and flash) so ill prob start using it
 
i am still relatively new to the whole web thing but have got to grips with most of the basic concepts by using sharepoint designer 2007 and visual studio 2005. I mainly do aspx websites which now do a lot of xml transformations which has been fun.

I find both development environments offer me slightly different things which is why I use both.

I am now even starting to understand how important a tool css can be for a website and much it makes life easier when coding a site from the ground up.
 
davetherave2 said:
i am still relatively new to the whole web thing but have got to grips with most of the basic concepts by using sharepoint designer 2007 and visual studio 2005. I mainly do aspx websites which now do a lot of xml transformations which has been fun.

I find both development environments offer me slightly different things which is why I use both.

I am now even starting to understand how important a tool css can be for a website and much it makes life easier when coding a site from the ground up.
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CSS has really opened up a can of worms for me, I've only recently been creating websites and having never used CSS before (learnt html back in college 10 years ago) I was still stuck in my old ways (tables/frames etc).

After sitting down with a few books and several days worth of coffee I got to grips with CSS, 2 months later I just finished redesigning works entire website using CSS, and not only that the whole site is now usable by a large group of people (high contrast, scalable font size etc).

Infact I think come december when the christmas bonus's appear im expecting a nice figure (bloody hope so at least).
 
If you don't like Christmas bonuses, I'm more than happy to give you my bank details so you can funnel it straight from your account to mine ;)
 
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