Web Page creation help.

Admiral Huddy · 18 Nov 2014 at 20:08

I was wondering if you could help.

I have a web page template which i wish to use to create a webpage which needs content. Is there a free, easy to use and decent page creation tool I can use that comes recommended?

Thanks

mtalk · 19 Nov 2014 at 07:22

One of the easy tool that you can use is : dreamweaver

Admiral Huddy · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:11

Does that create HTML/CSS code i can drop in to the template?

I found a toll called Brackets. Might give that a go.

Neodite · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:39

If you have a template just open it in Dreamweaver and you can add/edit code that way etc.

Or you can use something like sublime text, but yes Brackets is good too.

Darr2cool78 · 20 Nov 2014 at 10:05

Admiral Huddy said:
I was wondering if you could help.

I have a web page template which i wish to use to create a webpage which needs content. Is there a free, easy to use and decent page creation tool I can use that comes recommended?

Thanks

There is another tool called Adobe Muse you could check out.

If you don't mind me asking what will be the purpose of the envisioned website?

If its something professional/ serious and you don't have any experience in HTML/css messing in Dreamweaver will probably end up you having a very unpolished website.

There are online tools you could try like WIX or hire someone to do the more complicated things. If its something as simple as turning round an already provided template it probably wouldn't cost you much

Maccy · 20 Nov 2014 at 12:47

Learn to code and style it using CSS yourself, you lazy fool

marc2003 · 20 Nov 2014 at 13:04

Maccy said:
Learn to code and style it using CSS yourself, you lazy fool

i'm doing this but really i'd like an editor to help with html markup. infact something just like the bbcode tools in this box i'm typing into right now. i just want an easy way to wrap highlighted text with <img> <a href.. <strong> etc. any suggestions?

Maccy · 20 Nov 2014 at 14:10

Dreamweaver is the only one I know of, I do all of mine in Smultron as I prefer coding it and syncing with my server so I can see how it displays in a browser.

xbenjiiman · 20 Nov 2014 at 14:29

As brackets matures, it's almost becoming a must for web developers. The live-preview is amazing as long as you aren't doing any server-side processing (this is where I use Sublime).

Read some basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript tutorials/books and I'd say go with brackets. Pretty sure there are some autocomplete plugins that will help you with the syntax too.

marc2003 said:
i'm doing this but really i'd like an editor to help with html markup. infact something just like the bbcode tools in this box i'm typing into right now. i just want an easy way to wrap highlighted text with <img> <a href.. <strong> etc. any suggestions?

What you're describing is a WYSIWYG(What you see is what you get) editor, and the only decent(?) programs that I know uses this is probably Dreamweaver or Kompozer.

HungryHippos · 20 Nov 2014 at 15:37

For a basic site I would assume that bootstrap would work well (http://getbootstrap.com/).

marc2003 · 20 Nov 2014 at 20:52

xbenjiiman said:
Kompozer.

it looked to be in my price range(!) but it can't handle html5 at all. it completely mangles it rendering it useless.

xbenjiiman · 21 Nov 2014 at 09:15

marc2003 said:
it looked to be in my price range(!) but it can't handle html5 at all. it completely mangles it rendering it useless.

Honestly, I just Google'd it.

Wasn't aware that it hadn't been updated since 2010, sorry!

MoDe · 21 Nov 2014 at 10:58

For ease of use, Microsofts Web Expression 4 offers a Design view editor for those who aren't too clued up on code.

It's basically an updated version of Microsoft Frontpage. I still use it for putting together HTML emails as it saves me writing full tables out in code.

marc2003 · 21 Nov 2014 at 15:03

xbenjiiman said:
Honestly, I just Google'd it. Wasn't aware that it hadn't been updated since 2010, sorry!

nevermind...

i think i'll stick with notepad++. i've got a few macros setup to wrap text with the most common tags i use.

Admiral Huddy · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:47

Maccy said:
Learn to code and style it using CSS yourself, you lazy fool

I've been doing that but I get in in right mess. Brackets does seem to a decent editor though. I can keep the browser open and i updates as I save the content. Very useful.

MoDe said:
For ease of use, Microsofts Web Expression 4 offers a Design view editor for those who aren't too clued up on code.

It's basically an updated version of Microsoft Frontpage. I still use it for putting together HTML emails as it saves me writing full tables out in code.

Could prove useful. Thanks