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    Recommendations for a program to design webpages?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Greg, Apr 18, 2007.

  1. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I've been looking at the academic version of MS Office Frontpage (I get it really really cheap), but I was wondering if there are other decent alternatives?

    Basically, I just volunteered to become a webmaster for two websites affiliated with Purdue University...and I've got the entire summer to get it up and running.
     
    Greg, Apr 18, 2007
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  2. Daidojih

    Daidojih Notebook Consultant

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    My highly recommended program that I use is this:
    Start>Run>Notepad
    :p

    Well to answer your question seriously you can use dreamweaver (which I dabbled in a bit) and for designing the layout of your page you can even use imageready (which I use to get a feel for what I want my site to look like).
     
    Daidojih, Apr 18, 2007
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  3. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    Frontpage is very newbie friendly, and I've found it very useful when I have to muck with HTML and can't quite remember some of the tag syntax. It will do some auto formatting, but you can always look at the raw HTML code on a parallel tab and make any changes you feel necessary.

    So if you can get it for very cheap or free, then give it a go.
     
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  4. iOsiris

    iOsiris Notebook Evangelist

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    If you can get Adobe Dreamweaver that is probably the best way to go, but if your getting Front Page from MSDN at your university (for free?), then yeah that is probably the cheapest way to go.
     
    iOsiris, Apr 18, 2007
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  5. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    http://www.nvu.com/index.php

    Don't even touch Frontpage, and the only thing Dreamweaver does right is syntax highlighting. If you need any help, I've done a number of websites ( http://www.3dnworld.com is all my work, completely from scratch, database, file and user management, all kinds of nifty stuff )
     
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  6. iza

    iza Notebook Evangelist

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    NVU hasn't been updated in 2 years; get KompoZer instead;
    Explanation


    I just use notepad2 though.
     
    iza, Apr 18, 2007
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    Boneyard Notebook Enthusiast

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    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    System64, Apr 18, 2007
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