Austin Improv

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I luv Coda.

Joomla - open source content management system for your website.


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