Website Design for your Photography Website

[ctribble]

I was thinking about buying Office 2007 for Outlook, Word, Excel and Frontpage but I learned that Frontpage is being discontinued. What are some of you doing to update your sites. I can continue to use Frontpage but it looks like there is Microsoft Expression for website designers. Has anybody used this? I have read it's not exactly user friendly like Frontpage? What do you guys think my options are?
I need it to be user friendly like Frontpage...How is dreamweaver? What is the latest version of this?

Help!

[S.Horton]

Do you want to build it yourself for fun?

[ctribble]

Originally Posted by hortonsl62

Do you want to build it yourself for fun?

Yes. For Fun. My signature has my website I have just started, but I want to do some flash, more graphical tabs etc.

[S.Horton]

Ah.

How much code do you want to write?

[ctribble]

Originally Posted by hortonsl62

Do you want to build it yourself for fun?

Also, I am currently downloading the free trial of Microsoft Expression Now.
Another problem I see in the future would be whether or not my webhost (Comcast Cable) will support whatever Expressions extensions are?

[ctribble]

Originally Posted by hortonsl62

Ah.

How much code do you want to write?

I don't know but the very basic code...Mostly I cut and Paste code.

[bacchanal]

Personally, I hate frontpage. Dreamweaver is the best full featured editor for it's number of features and powerful site manager...it is a great piece of software. I pay for linux hosting and use joomla (cms). I do most of my editing in notepad. With joomla, you can apply templates and modify the css if you don't want to do much coding yourself, but there is always some security risk with open source content engine like that. Of course, you may not need a content manager if you're just building a photo site.

[liza]

I have Macromedia MX, but I used Notepad to modify the template for the site I just uploaded today. It works for me.

[S.Horton]

Microsoft-generated sites must run on Microsoft Windows servers to function over time.

That product may be what you're after, then!

[bacchanal]

You can't beat notepad and a decent FTP program like Filezilla!

Macromedia MX is the last version of Dreamweaver I used. I haven't used the latest Adobe versions. It probably wouldn't be too hard to find an older version of Dreamweaver on ebay or something for cheap. It's not like you need the latest features for basic editing...but the site manager sure is nice to have. The big plus is that it's just FTP based so you don't have to worry about stupid extensions.

[ctribble]

Originally Posted by bacchanal

You can't beat notepad and a decent FTP program like Filezilla!

Macromedia MX is the last version of Dreamweaver I used. I haven't used the latest Adobe versions. It probably wouldn't be too hard to find an older version of Dreamweaver on ebay or something for cheap. It's not like you need the latest features for basic editing...but the site manager sure is nice to have. The big plus is that it's just FTP based so you don't have to worry about stupid extensions.

I am not into writing code at all. I am a extreme novice when it comes to websites. That's why I use frontpage, but now they have discontinued Frontpage so...my question is what software is out now that relates to Frontpage? I need some USER FRIENDLY SOFTWARE.
Thanks

[Bobster]

frontpage makes for bloated html uses alot of stuff that will break in FF and other Browsers that aren't Explorer..

i create the graphics for sites and hand the backend over to a coder to put the site together..

[bacchanal]

Originally Posted by ctribble

I am not into writing code at all. I am a extreme novice when it comes to websites. That's why I use frontpage, but now they have discontinued Frontpage so...my question is what software is out now that relates to Frontpage? I need some USER FRIENDLY SOFTWARE.
Thanks

Dreamweaver works both as a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get - frontpage like) editor and and a code editor. The 'Site Manager' works via FTP which eliminates the need for frontpage like extensions, but it still has nice features like check-in/check-out. To my knowledge, there is really nothing out there that compares to Dreamweaver, but it is probably overkill if you are a novice and don't spend a lot of time doing web development. I don't use Dreamweaver anymore myself, because I really don't do my own design anymore. I just use software and modify templates and stuff. If I need to actually modify something, I just use notepad.

The best free editor (with WYSIWYG features) that I have found is Nvu. It is based on the older mozilla composer I think. http://nvudev.com/index.php It doesn't produce the cleanest looking code, but it's really pretty decent.

[sandro9mm]

frontpage is one of the worst softwares available. try dreamweaver u'll be pleased

[ctribble]

Originally Posted by sandro9mm

frontpage is one of the worst softwares available. try dreamweaver u'll be pleased

I think I will. Thanks
for the feedback.