regarding building a site relating purely to content

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regarding building a site relating purely to content

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sweetsan

9:43 am on Dec 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi to everyone.I am beginner with a little knowledge of HTML and some of the common computer terms as , i do not come from that background. Now coming straight away to the point, i wanna build up a website of around 1000 pages of only content and articles.And as i am starting out with a low budget , i may not afford any company to do this job for me. All i ask you guys is to tell me some softwares for a laymen like me , regarding the following issues.

a ) Site building - will adobe dreamweaver serve the purpose or any other suggestions ?
b ) Any software to maintain this article base and which could be backed up easily
c ) Software to check the bugs arising out and suggest corrections , before the site going out live.
d ) And Finally , a good and reliant hosting company which can give me unrestricted access .

It would be more appreciable if you give your valuable opinions and suggestions, as simple as possible.

Thanks in advance,
Santosh.

SteveWh

11:08 pm on Dec 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

a) Yes Dreamweaver will be good. So would Expression Web. FrontPage, which might be available inexpensively now, would also do, as long as you stay away from its automated things ("webbots") and just use it as a WYSIWYG, text and code editor, and file manager.

I'd stay away from WordPress. You must keep it updated to the latest version at all times. If you don't, the site gets hacked. The upgrading is more than some people can deal with, so they don't do it, and then the resulting hack is *way* more than they can deal with. So stick with plain HTML pages built in a good design program (DW, EW, FP, etc.).

b) Normally you'd build your site (and its pages) in DW on your local PC, then upload the site to your server. That way, the live site IS a backup of your local site, or vice versa. Also make DVD backups. Linux/Apache/cPanel is a good server setup. The cPanel interface has an easy way to backup your MySQL databases, if you ever starting using them.

c) Any of the "big 3" design programs will have spell checking. For page checking, you can use the W3C HTML validator tool: [validator.w3.org...] They also have a validator for CSS: [jigsaw.w3.org...] There are also some add-ons for Firefox that can help with page design and previewing.

d) Sorry, hosting company recommendations are not allowed here.

Good luck and have fun.

Fortune Hunter

3:48 am on Dec 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'd stay away from WordPress. You must keep it updated to the latest version at all times. If you don't, the site gets hacked.

There is a flip side to this argument. I design a lot of pages in Dreamweaver and for the most part it works great, but you are talking about creating a 1,000 pages. Without some type of content manager and database to hold all of these pages you might find your updating tasks become unmanageable over time by doing everything in any type of page editor. My site is about 100 pages and I find it a pain to manage in just DW.

Word Press does some of this content management and has a database, however I will concede the point that it is open source and getting reliable and easy to use technical support can be difficult. A commercial content management solution would provide many of the same benefits, but if and when you needed technical support it would be a lot more easily obtainable and reliable.

bilalseo

3:32 pm on Dec 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

you must try some content management system, like drupal and joomla. I'd prefer to go with drupal, as it gives you more reliablity and quality to manage web contents without facing hassle. I'm also running my official website under the same content management system. Try dupal, i recommend.

thanks,

bilal qayyum