New Project Needs Helps and Advice

[a2j-godfather]

I want help redesign and maintain my church website... and am all kinda newbie but have little knowledge of html,dreamweaver,frontpage and php but i want to start by building the website from frontpage as it is alot quite easy but i know little of it.

So am welcoming suggestions,advices,help on web structures,where i start from, links to online frontpage tutorials..... I will so much appreciate it.

[Centauri]

No, NOT Frontpage - it will produce very bad coding which can be very difficult to troubleshoot. I would recommend writing actual page code (Dreamweaver can be very helpful here when in code view), starting with the content of the site and then styling that content to arrive at the look you want.

A good tutorial to start off with is here (http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/).

[a2j-godfather]

Thanks for the help and link Centauri, but the problem is i dont have internet access at home, so could you possibly help me maybe tutorial that i can download and take home to study it?

[tracknut]

No, NOT Frontpage - it will produce very bad coding which can be very difficult to troubleshoot. I would recommend writing actual page code (Dreamweaver can be very helpful here when in code view), starting with the content of the site and then styling that content to arrive at the look you want.


I will disagree with this point. If you're restricting yourself to code view, Frontpage doesn't create "very bad code" unless you write that code yourself. Same as Dreamweaver, I'd presume.

Of course Expressions is far newer than FrontPage, but that's another story.

Dave

[a2j-godfather]

I will disagree with this point. If you're restricting yourself to code view, Frontpage doesn't create "very bad code" unless you write that code yourself. Same as Dreamweaver, I'd presume.

Of course Expressions is far newer than FrontPage, but that's another story.

Dave
So Dave, are you currently using frontpage for designing your websites, or prefer frontpage to dreamweaver?

[tracknut]

I am using Expressions, which is the current incarnation of Frontpage. I haven't used Dreamweaver, which of course is more popular.

Dave

[a2j-godfather]

is expressions powerful than frontpage and dreamweaver or they same? or what advantage expressions has over other two? and the website of expressions

[tracknut]

Expressions is a lot better than Frontpage. I can't compare to Dreamweaver, I've never used it. Expressions has much better context-sensitive editing than FP, understands CSS, enforces DOCTYPEs, etc. I don't use it in the "design mode", so I can't say too much about that, though of course it still has a design mode if you were to develop using that (which I don't recommend, in any tool).

I should say Dreamweaver is generally considered *the* tool for web development, and of the folks you'd run into doing web site development, the majority will be doing it with Dreamweaver. I think that's primarily because in the past a comparison between FrontPage and DW would easily put DW in the lead. By far. Nowadays, I wonder if the lead exists at all, compared to Expressions.

Expressions: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web

Dave