BEst program for building websites?

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » August 29th, 2007, 11:42 am

For all you troupe webmasters, what do you use to build your websites?

I bought WebEasy and it is a piece of non-intuitive crap. I used to use DreamWeaver 4 and loved it, but haven't had it in quite some time. i looking at buying CS3, but I'm not sure if it is overkill for simple site building (and it sure is pricey).

Ideas, comments, suggestions, recommendations?

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » August 29th, 2007, 11:47 am

Do you plan on doing your own HTML & CSS coding by hand or do you want to use blogging software to update your site?

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » August 29th, 2007, 11:51 am

Don't know. Probably hand update, though blogging and RSS updates for a specific page within the site, like a News or Blog page would be nice. But most of the site will be pretty static - links to photos, videos, bios, contact info, etc. Those I can just update and upload myself.

But the whole building of an inter-related series of pages as a site is a nightmare by hand. Right now, I Snood Bear's homepage was written in textpad.
What I really need is a template site I can add to and personalize.

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » August 29th, 2007, 12:15 pm

I hand code all of my sites using Dreamweaver. It may be overkill for what you're trying to do. Honestly, it's overkill for what I do for a living. I used to use Homesite to do all my coding but I transitioned to Dreamweaver and I'm glad I did. Dreamweaver will let you set up templates like you described.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » August 29th, 2007, 12:17 pm

I looked into a lot of content management systems for the new pgraph.com, but wasn't satisfied with any of them. Ultimately, I got a clean template from one of the free website template sites, and then modified the shit out of it.

After that, I converted the html to php, so I could seperate out the common parts of the pages such as the menu, footer, and right-hand column into distinct files I only have to edit once.

I was using a WYSIWIG editor, but now I'm just using Textpad. It's not bad once you've got the common bits seperated.

Post by **bradisntclever** » August 29th, 2007, 2:08 pm

Roy Janik wrote:now I'm just using Textpad. It's not bad once you've got the common bits seperated.

That's hardcore, but it's what I do, too.

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » August 29th, 2007, 2:40 pm

bradisntclever wrote:
Roy Janik wrote:now I'm just using Textpad. It's not bad once you've got the common bits seperated.
That's hardcore, but it's what I do, too.

Emacs, yo.

/me makes awkward attempt at nerd gang sign

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » August 29th, 2007, 3:57 pm

Roy Janik wrote:I was using a WYSIWIG editor, but now I'm just using Textpad. It's not bad once you've got the common bits seperated.

A great FREE wysiwig editor and website builder is Nvu. You can find it for download easily through a google search.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » August 29th, 2007, 5:36 pm

kaci_beeler wrote:A great FREE wysiwig editor and website builder is Nvu. You can find it for download easily through a google search.

My company recently added nvu as one of the few editors blessed by the R & D folks. Give it a look.

smerlin · Post by **smerlin** » September 3rd, 2007, 11:42 am

I luv Coda.

seanhill · Post by **seanhill** » September 3rd, 2007, 10:01 pm

Joomla - open source content management system for your website.

Joomla.org