Re: Building my own website?

RCE Defiant wrote:
Anyone know what's 'the' software to use to build my own website. Want to knock something half decent up in a weekend (This weekend!)....

If you just want a simple site, and you're technical enough to be around here, then you might be best just spending a couple of hours learning HTML and CSS, and then coding it up in a simple text editor. If there's one thing the web is good for, it's tutorials on how to create material for the web! :-) If in doubt, just visit the W3C site (http://www.w3.org) and look up the material they link to about HTML and CSS (look in the A to Z on the home page).

You can output something approximating HTML from just about anything from Word to Dreamweaver, but frankly most "web editors" suck in so many ways that they're just not worth the trouble, and it's probably as fast for someone reasonably smart and technical to learn HTML+CSS as to learn all the quirks of the various web editors.

Cheers,
Chris
(who runs several moderately large hobby web sites with nothing but a decent text editor and a few shell scripts, and not because he doesn't know where to find web editing software :-))
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