I'm interested in building a business web page...
I know there are plenty of Web page hosts with web design..Has anyone used yahoo's web page buildiers?
They have options from basic to business web pages.
What software for web design is recommended but failrly simple to learn?

Sorry if this has been asked before...
Thanks for any tips, suggestions, experiences..

HT

 

I am experimenting with Microsoft Front Page for web site design, it can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. Still trying to figure it all out.

 

I learned to do HTML and Java using a program called Homesite. It lets you either hardcode your page or use simple templates where you enter your information and you can click and move it around and it'll automatically code it for you. Not sure if it's still around anymore as this was about 7 years ago when I used it.

 

I started with the Yahoo Page Builder. I use the free one, so my pages have fairly large ads on the side. I don't like the templates, you can do a lot more by starting from scratch and loading backgrounds, etc, from other free sites. I tried several others, Yahoo was the easiest for me.

I'm learning html now, many people recommend using html. I might stay with Yahoo, or not, if I ever get my page finished.

Here's a link you can use to learn html, it's a free site:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/

I'll post a link to my (fairly lame) Yahoo page if you want to see it.

 

I started out several years ago at Yahoo - and in my opinion they still offer the best suite of free design tools available. It's well worth it to go there to learn, though your pages will be ad-plagued until you get a paid for account.

For truly useful web-design software I recommend looking over the used software available through Amazon (NO! I'm not a shill for Amazon, I just know where a good deal can be found).

If you can get them used, Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks are well worth the money. Older versions are for sale cheaply, and have far more options than you will know how to use for a long time to come.

I also recommend doing a search for online HTML tutor sites, because even if you DON'T want to learn to write your pages line by line, it is extremely helpful to be able to spot things in your webpage code that can be corrected or modified quickly. That way you know what the heck is going on...

A web page can be best described as a word document on steroids...

It sounds daunting, but is really sort of simple. You have to tell other peoples web browsers what to display, and how to show them those displays. A web page is made out of several different pieces:
Text
Graphics (pictures)
and hyperlinks

I could spend all night and not cover all of the basics here.

The simple school of thought is to make a word document that has everything you want on your page, and then SAVE AS an HTML document type.

WORD will do that....

It beats the dickens out of trying to get Front Page Express to do anything helpful...

One more note (and this is cheating!):

You can build a page at geocities/yahoo, and then view it. When you do, click on the toolbar to view the source coding, and save it as a text document ot an html.

When you look at it on your own computer you can slice out any geocities or yahoo content - and then post it up on TRIPOD or wherever you want!!!

In other words - you can use the geocities/yahoo editor to build a page to transport to anywhere you like... As long as it saves as a plain old HTML file.

Uploading all the dependant files (graphics and stuff) is up to you. You may have to rename files...

Right now I want you to do something very simple
Click on the View item on your toolbar, then click on the Source item in the drop down menu. This will give you a look at what coding looks like.
This is what you need to get familiar with. Over time, it becomes easy...

 

The difference between VB and HTML is that a seperate set of marking keys are used.

Vb uses the bracket keys, and HTML uses the greater than and less than symbols.

HTML is much more capable, and is disabled on most message forums including this one. There is good reason for that - HACKERS take advantage of HTML in some forums.

Vb (Virtual Basic) was developed, I believe, to prevent maliscious intrusions on polite websites. In the early days of online forums it was not unusual to be hacked by people for no better reason than that they saw you as competition with someone they wanted to know.... Children getting rid of rivals.

At a thousand bucks a pop at times, computers have always cost pretty much the same. Burn someones hard drive, and the place is yours...

THIS IS WHY "The Globe" folded. They were hacker ridden, and did nothing about it. Moderated sites became the way of the future, and the best of them were the heroes of the internet.

THIS IS ONE.
FTE has rules...

 

I use Yahoo to host our bands web site. Their software leaves something to be desired but I must say, Yahoo has great customer care and help.
Here is my site..
www.southernconnectionband.net

I use Bravenet's and kodak's web services also.

Yahoo just recently upgraded their services also.

 

Could you use an electronics tech?