I’ve had two previous webpages before for my own childish amusement and they were built with using one of the Netscape programs (pretty sad, I know). Well, its been about three years since I’ve last had my own site, and I’m wondering if any Dopers have their own reccomendations as far as webpage software goes? I hear Dreamweaver is the end all be all, but I think others would disagree.
Dreamweaver, or no? The webpage I plan on making is intended to be nothing more than a small and hopefully interesting personal website. I plan on having a frame or two, and using tables. I also expect to be using this animated gif of a woman with large breasts that sway in a circular motion.
Depends on what you want to do and how experienced you are with it.
I used to use Dreamweaver a lot when i was building [extremely] complicated tables. I found it very proficient at cranking out cleanly-formatted, static pages.
Now that I am building asp.net stuff all day long, I use Visual Studio .NET 2003. This is clearly more than youre asking for.
In all honesty, for what you’re intending to do, reading a handful of online tutorials and cranking out the code yourself could be quite beneficial and fulfilling. Development apps are very handy tools when you have to generate and format a ton of content (Dreamweaver) or are building complicated web applications (VS.NET), but for your use, I would suggest you dont use anything at all. You never know, you just might like it
You likely also own some version Microsoft Office that likely includes Frontpage. Not a particularly great tool, but it will get the job done well enough if you intend to keep your hands clean of code.
Oh. Your choice of graphical content, be they animated gifs of breasts (good choice, that) or whatever, has basically no bearing on the effectiveness of any web development application.
Thanks Collin, I was aware that gif would present few, if any, technical issues with the software itself
However I do fully intend to keep my hands free from coding it manually. Besides being lazy to begin with, I’d like something that is what-you-see-what-you-get and would allow me to easily insert tables or frames exactly where I want them. I remember trying to code my first webpage, it took repeated tries just to get the frames and tables just right, and I felt like I was 30% less of a man while going over long lines of html trying to figure out why something isn’t displaying properly.
