I have recently started my own internet marketing business and would like to design my own site, and be free to change it as I go along. I think a static site would be fine for my needs and would like to create my own flash panels. I also would like to be able to edit the content using an OS content mgt system.
What do I need to know html, css and make sure it is w3c compliant? Appreciate any advice.
Regards,
Geraldine.
I'd suggest some tutorials. w3schools.com is a good place to start.
along with taking the tutorials at w3schools, download some of the free templates from here and start to "play" with them. Take your time, and remember there's always the "undo" button ;
keep a good copy of the template, and then your working copy and compare the 2.
Wishing you every success!
thanks, that's great
okay.. i also a newbie.. and i want to develop my website. in asp->c# . so someone suggested me that instead of designing it in visual studio i can design it using dreamweaver and then write the code and it will be easier this way..
now i tried and tried but dreamwaver is not downloading and taking ages to goo from 2% to 4%.... what do i do.. i am stuck on the basic step..
plus dreamwaver is trial only .. please help me out.. any advice would be great!.
Thanks in advance!
unless you have programming experience, if you are a nooob i do not recommend developing ur site in asp C#.
im also not sure i understand this: "now i tried and tried but dreamwaver is not downloading and taking ages to goo from 2% to 4%.... what do i do.. i am stuck on the basic step.." could you please restate it?
okay.. i accept ur point abt c# but i dun have option as i am suppose to learn it (m good in vb) and since a website will increase my visibility so i thought thru this i can learn as well as create something for me...
about my comment regarding dreamweaver... i tried downloading it from adobe's site. and the thing is just downloading at a dreadfull pace..for 2 days i tried and then gave up..!!
so what should i do now.. continue trying to download dreamwaver or is there any other s/w to design website?
Kean, I use Visual Studio everyday at my day job using C# and ASP.Net to build a very active website. What problems are you having that you would need help on?
About Visual Studio and Dreamweaver, those two applications are two very different beasts. One was designed just for building and managing HTML based websites. The other is a very general Integrated Development Enviroment that just happens to do pretty decent at HTML development while at the same time giving you a great enviroment to develop programs.
hmm..
i want kind of a "deer park"( one of the themes on this site..) look for my website. And i felt that it would be very difficult to acheive that look by visual studio.
Problem is that i have worked on Visual studio for creating logic but web designing is not my forte.. so i don't know how to go about it.
Could you tell me how to start? and if i concentrate only Visual studio can i acheive that look thru it.. or will i have to be satisfied with bare look?
Thnks.
There are many many websites out there that look exceptionaly good that use asp.net as the underlying framework. Visual Studio is not a limitation nor a hinderance. What needs to be done is to understand what you're downloading and what steps need to be taken to achive the desired result. Patience and practice will give you the ability to do great things. Very few if any of the downloaded templates from this site are going to be able to give you a complete website. Most are just one page designs and are generally based on the visual idea of using 'wordpress'.
If you know how to write dynamic code such as PHP, Perl, Ruby, C# or VBscript then you should be able to easily understand the concepts of mixing HTML markup with code. You have stated that you have Visual Studio. Please check the website http://www.asp.net and watch the learning videos there to udnerstand and see how asp.net can be used to accomplish what you desire. Good luck to your project.
*One more question.. once the design is complete what next? I mean then we go to hosting right ? is it free or do i pay for it ? I searched for free web hosting and there are many are they safe and reliable?
*secondly my site won't be very big in intial stage so i have the database at my lappy.. but then when ppl acess the site my lappy will be acessed directly.. this will create security/virus problems for me isn't it.. Whats the standard way to go about this?
Thanks in advance,
kean :)
If you have used ASP.Net to create your site with, you will need to purchase windows hosting which has the same .net Framework that you used to create your site in.
You will also need to make sure that they have the same type of database that you used when you creatd your site locally. If you used SQL Express, you should be looking for either SQL 2005 or SQL 2008 databases.
You will not be able to have your database hosted on your 'lappy'. That's not the way sites are designed and this will not work for you in this situation.
If you're using Visual Studio like you stated earlier, you can just 'publish' your site. This will pre-compile all of the code, and push to a folder of your choice only the files needed to run the website. If you're using Visual Studio 2008, you can also publish your database which will create a script to run on the database.
Good luck with this.