ID:188615
 Feb 24 2004, 6:02 pm
|
|
Ok well I was wondering....Instead of buying a website or something from off of someone's server can't I make one myself? Like with some program that I have to do HTML and all or something and not have to go to some coperate place just to get one?
| |
No, font page express is just a tool to design your webstite, mainly offline building.
But if your page gets a little too big, it takes awhile to load, like when you have a huge map on byond. | |
Check out this link:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/nontechintro/ntipart2.html That will get you started, but the rest of the site has lots of useful information too. I prefer hand-coding HTML with a text editor (I use EditPad Lite) instead of using an automatic web page builder program, but it does take a little getting used to. | |
Gughunter wrote:
I prefer hand-coding HTML with a text editor (I use EditPad Lite) instead of using an automatic web page builder program, but it does take a little getting used to. Hand-coding HTML is like a new pair of underwear, at first it's tight and restrictive, but once you get used to it it becomes you can't imagine life without it. | |
Gughunter wrote:
Check out this link: Editpad Lite rocks! I really love it's multiple-file search-n-replace feature! now only if it had an integrated FTP program, I would stop using my other favorite: HTMLKit (http://www.chami.com) | |
you can build a website out of just about any decent editor or webpage creation program. but to host it will require the use of a webserver, either by someone on the internet ("webhosts"), or from your own computer.
for the later, i would suggest Badblue (http://www.badblue.com), a nice simple webserver program for Windows, that also supports PHP if you decide to get fancy later on. you will also need a dynamic dns account (say from http://www.dyndns.org) so that people can just type a webpage url instead of having to remember your IP address of your computer (which may change often if you have dial-up, ISDN, or DSL). make sure to pick out an update client so that you IP address is always pointing to the url you have registered... assuming you've figured all that out, the you can host webpages from your home computer! (oh, don't forget to allow port 80 requests in your firewall/router setup) :) | |
I used PHPNuke, which does require a webhost that supports it, but it is extremely good when setting up a professional looking website and you want to be able to easily expand it.
http://phpnuke.org/ PHPNuke and Post nuke are basically the same, but it just depends on what you prefer. http://www.postnuke.com | |
digitalmouse wrote:
Gughunter wrote: I stumbled on HTML Beauty a while back and still use it for all my HTML and related coding. It has tons of editing tools (including multifile search and replace ;) ) for web development but you are still hand coding everything (unless you use the snippets database). Best of all, it's totally free! Sorry Digi, no integrated FTP. | |
Shadowdarke wrote:
digitalmouse wrote: Does no one else use Notepad? | |
Goku72 wrote:
I do! Notepad - "THE" ORIGINAL HTML editor =D *cough* Except for, you know, all of the UNIX text editors that existed long before even Windows, much less Notepad. | |
nick.cash wrote:
Goku72 wrote: You can pry vi from my cold, dead fingers! | |
nick.cash wrote:
Goku72 wrote: It's ok, you know better now. =P | |
Mike H wrote:
nick.cash wrote: Vi? There is no vi! I symlinked it to emacs while you weren't looking! >:P | |
Anyway you cut it, you dont even need to know HTML anymore.