Web page authoring software

[Ryos]

EditPlus is shareware available at http://www.editplus.com. Es-Computing made it. There is no limitation on the unregistered version, other than the box that comes up when you start it up (think WinZip).

editplus is a good one...simple but effective

[Shiori]

Thanks for all the suggestions, particularly those who have up-and-running websites right now, and most of all to Thorgal (who made NGEmu's site in the first place ). Your input is very much appreciated.

I think I'll go try Editplus (since it's fully functional unregistered, according to Ryos) and FrontPage 2000 (since I have it already). Notepad? well maybe when I get better at this.

Well, time to get those TokiMemo images sorted out!

Don't forget the most important tool of all ... your imagination

[flipcode]

FrontPage 2000 is just fine if you have a general knowledge of HTML. It formats nicely, has the WYSIWYG interface when things get tough and a preview pane as well.

There are other more fancy ones out there, but really FrontPage 2000 is good enough for almost all but professional web sites.

I used it to develop a commerical web site and it worked really well.

:)

[Shiori]

Do you know any good tutorial sites out there for FrontPage?

[Enigma1982]

Don't know about site.
but I try on myself.
Let try by yourself first.

[Shiori]

Tried cranking out a webpage by myself using FrontPage a few months ago....and, well...let's just say a grade-school student could've done better.

I learned it this way:
I typed a document in Wordperfect 8 (!) and saved it as html....
but I wasn't very pleased with the result and started looking at the source...then I looked at the sources of other webpages...and that's how I learned html
Note: ripping other ppl's webpages is a bad thing, but looking at the source to understand the code isn't.

[Prafull]

Originally posted by Samor
I learned it this way:
I typed a document in Wordperfect 8 (!) and saved it as html....
but I wasn't very pleased with the result and started looking at the source...then I looked at the sources of other webpages...and that's how I learned html
Note: ripping other ppl's webpages is a bad thing, but looking at the source to understand the code isn't.

Hmm,If ever I got more interested in making a website I will surely use this helpful technique from you.

[Thorgal]

Originally posted by flipcode
FrontPage 2000 is just fine if you have a general knowledge of HTML. It formats nicely, has the WYSIWYG interface when things get tough and a preview pane as well.

.. when things get tough, the most obvious solution to me seems to use a pure html editor rather than a WYSIWYG-editor

Viewing the source of websites you visit is indeed an excellent way to learn html/javascript/whatever, and it usually motivates you as well as it usually goes like "I want to be able to do that too!" I think pretty much everyone who's into webdevelopment uses this technique... as for 'ripping' code, keep in mind html is usually hard to rip as every site looks different you just need to make sure you don't rip any script from a site unless you know you're allowed to, which is why there are several sites with huge collection of scripts/code snippets out there, free to copy (with credit ofcourse).

Keiichi: if EditPlus works for you, and the shareware-thing doesn't have any disadvantages, forget notepad; afterall, editplus is an enhanced notepad so why go back

It usually is a good idea to start right off with pure html, as you'll learn it the good way right away. If you want to quickly make a page, FrontPage might be nice (that's even how I got started..) as you can get quick results. Those results aren't always satisfactory though, plus you'd need to <b>get</b> it first, so that's another reason to use a pure (html) editor like EditPlus or Homesite (HS, just like Dreamweaver etc. etc. also has WYSIWYG btw, Editplus obviously doesn't).

[Thorgal]

A couple of other thingies:

<b>I think I'll go try Editplus (since it's fully functional unregistered, according to Ryos) and FrontPage 2000 (since I have it already). Notepad? well maybe when I get better at this.</b>

keep in mind Editplus is just like notepad, so if you aim to make something very quick and non-serious, Frontpage might be better. I personally wouldn't use it for anything serious though, and some of its features might only work confusing.

In other words, it really depends on how much time you want to spend and if you want to become a html 'expert' in the future. In short:


<ul><li>Editplus is easy to get, manual html offers more control and is especially good to know for later, but you'll have to learn from a couple of html tutorials first;

<li>Frontpage is more difficult to get (unless you're talking about FP Express, which comes with IE), which is fun for some time since you can quickly make something, but in the end pure html still gives you 100% control and it's cool to know

<li>Homesite/Dreamweaver/whatever, which are also more difficult to get (there are trial versions), usually offer both pure html <b>and</b> WYSWYG (What You See Is What You Get) like FP has, and also have some additional tools/help resources which might come in handy for both novice and expert.</ul>

Hrmm, that's it I guess.. I suggest you at least partially base your decision on these facts