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Posted By: Mel. White <cyberwizard@spamcop.net> In Response To: Save yourself a lot of time and aggravation... (Barry Stein)
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, at 7:16 a.m.
Speaking here from 30 years' experience as a programmer and 8 years' experience as a webmaster, his advice is right on.
> Although it doesn't hurt to know a little bit about HTML, I'd
> suggest that the quickest way to get up and running quickly
> is to buy a used version of Microsoft FrontPage on eBay, which
> will be very cheap.
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to learn to design websites, a bit of HTML is useful to learn (but you'll need Flash and a lot of other skills (including a bit of PHP/Perl/dot-NET programming) to be competitive in the marketplace. If you want to make your own website, forget the stress and pick up FrontPage.
It's one of the top choices for designers, particularly if you don't need to be doing programmed things. It integrates easily with almost everything (something that Dreamweaver didn't do) and you can just cut-and-paste without any aggravation. Unlike CoffeeCup (which drove me nuts) you don't have to call up a browser view every time you want to see what your changes look like.
> If you lack design skills then you can buy a website template very
> cheaply. Then all you do is copy the HTML for the template and
> paste it into a blank page in FrontPage. Make a few changes to
> colors and text and you now have a personalized web page.
I'll second that, and add that there's a LOT of bad looking pages out there. I always recommend that novice designers go take a look at http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com to learn what NOT to do with their sites!
> You should not pay more than $10 a month for website hosting. I pay
> $2.95 a month for many of my websites.
Generally agreed -- it depends on what you want to do with your website.
A bit of advice here is to make your FIRST website for yourself or your pet or your family or something so you can learn how to make and upload a website and how to change it and use the file managers. It's not impossible to do but it CAN be quite confusing the first six times you try it.
DO NOT overpay for website. If you're learning, chances are you won't need a gazillion bells and whistles on your site. In fact, you can do it using the cheapest web hosting possible if you just use Paypal for your "shopping cart" and get up a nice little web page.
So... first things first... start with "what do you want your web page to do and what can you live without?" Start simple (maybe an order form or a link to a paypal shopping cart) and build from there.
But unless you've got $20,000 or more to throw at web programmers and designers and web hosts and advertising, don't shoot for the moon on your first steps out. Use the KISS principle: "Keep It Simple, Silly!" and don't spend more than you should.
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