web design direction

j0ey · Post by **j0ey** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:29 pm

Really wanting to create my own webpage. What programs are good for beginners?

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Sat May 28, 2005 12:43 pm

Notepad and w3schools. That's all a good web-designer needs.

Edit: To make hand-coding easier, try this program. It's got built in HTML macros and such that'll help ease you into making pages.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:33 pm

Do you want to begin a career as a webdev or just throw up a few pages?

If you want to go pro, you should learn dreamweaver - it's industry standard but not cheap.

Elsewise you could use frontpage or others that are free - google for " WYSIWYG html editors " Many hosts will offer a free package for making basic sites as part of their plans.

Handcoding is good to learn first, as paft suggests, but in a fast paced pro outfit, you'll need to rapid-development and collaboration capabilities that dreamweaver offers. Adobe products are somewhat less popular, but still used by quite a few pro outfits (they also just bought Macromedia; the folks who make Dreamweaver)

Skye

drdoug99 · Post by **drdoug99** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:17 pm

what helps me out is using a premade template....this way you can see how a fully designed website looks like, and then can easily change things about the site, a little at a time until you increase your skills.

http://www.elated.com/pagekits/

I like this site, i used a couple templates from them...they have ones you can pay for too, but the free ones are good enough to get started on.

For me the hardest part of a site is the graphics design...which is why I use templates....then just add your content....

here's some more sites to help learn..

http://www.killersites.com/

this is a great site to learn coding
http://htmlite.com/