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Douglass
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so i finally figured out how to generate a decent amout of traffic to my site (check my counters! i got 100+ hit today!) and it needs some major updating so i need your opinion on the cheapest way to make an error free professional looking site without spending hours coding in HTML


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I got Hotdog pro on a coverdisk, check old coverdisks (esp pc advisor or pc shopper...they go for stuff like that), you might find some wysiwyg html editor on the net, try searching for one, often you can find a limited demo that will work for small sites, or maybe some freeware/shareware program.

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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 20th Apr 2004 00:32
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Buy a proffesional error free web generator....
Or why not just have a fun basic web site in HTML.

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Douglass
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maybe someone with a site could suggest one..


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Jeku
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Posted: 20th Apr 2004 11:05
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Sure, Notepad! And no, HTML isn't hours of work. You can make a few templates and just copy and paste the content. Quick 'n' easy. And yes, I have a site.

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Toby Quan
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Quote: "the cheapest way to make an error free professional looking site without spending hours coding in HTML"


You want an error-free professional looking website - Cheap? Well, HTML is free, so you're covered on the "cheap" side.

You don't want to spend hours coding in HTML?

Good websites take lots of time. Why do you want to rush rush rush it? What's the rush? Don't you have a few hours to pour into your website?

I have a website. I have made several of them. I did them all by hand, using HTML. It's very easy to do! And one webpage all by itself doesn't have to take hours, but if you are going to have a full-blown website, it will take hours.

You will only get out of it what you put into it. A little hard work goes a very long way!
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Douglass
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could somebody actually answer my question?


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zircher
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Sure. You can't do it.

You either invest time or money, but you can not make a professional site on a whim and a dime. If nothing else, you have to design the silly thing and make the resources available by copying or creating them. Adding the content alone can take time depending on if is a document that is viewed online.

Professional also means making it run in as many browsers as possible and presenting the same level of quality to each.
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Neofish
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Posted: 21st Apr 2004 02:09
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ur rite, just use HTML, thats what i did


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Douglass
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have any of you ever used yahoo geocities? im looking for a site editor similer to theirs but one that generates more optimised, error free code. my request really isnt that unrealistic i dont think.


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it is unrealistic

i'll make u a simplish HTML site if u like


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Douglass
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how is it unrealistic?


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good site makers cost more than a hundred pounds and geocities is ok but not brilliant, its better to get someone that can make websites for you for free, which i'll do, although it wont be amazing...


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Douglass
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fine, if you want to make a site, i want it like my current site with the camoflague backround and room for text in the center and a bar on the left maybe a blank space on the top if i think of something to add. and i want the the bar and blank space to be seperate from the rest of the site so that when i load different pages, the bar will just stay there. thanks for your help. ill advertise your site on mine and as a gift to start heres some updated signature code so it will link to your site:



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thanks for the code, is it possible for a drawing so i get it as rite as possible


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Douglass
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2004 05:25 Edited at: 22nd Apr 2004 05:28
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something like that. the main thing that i want is that the blue area with the menu and title are seperate from the rest of my site so that new pages open in the middle area with out the blue being affected.

thanks again. im not much of a modeler but i could code something for you sometime. i could also make you something in flash if you want.


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N30F15H probably has more time to help you. But, if you want an example of what I did in my spare time, please visit:

http://www.fire-on-the-suns.com

This is the 'general store' for all FOTS products. It's an ad free site that I wrote and it only costs like $5 a month. It uses PayPal for shopping links and supports a random image display via javascript on the front page.

It may not be a world class site, but it didn't cost me much either. Feel free to look at the source code behind the pages and borrow what you need within reason. [Within reason means that most of the splash page images are copyrighted and you'll need permission from the author to use them.]
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Don Malone
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Posted: 22nd Apr 2004 06:14 Edited at: 22nd Apr 2004 06:16
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Here is what comes up on a google search (representative) for WYSIWYG free html editor

http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/ FREE
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ FREE / online trial before downloading

A freeware site - The Free Country
http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml

http://www.mcwebsoftware.com/wwez/ FREE lite version $14.95 Plus Version
http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml FREE

There is also Mozilla and Netscape. They have an HTML editor in the download.

[EDIT] I use FrontPage 2000 but I am going to learn HTML (at the least and start to code my own webpages for compatability. Microsoft has a nasty habit of trying to overcome a standard to put a Microsoft twist to the standard and make it thier own.

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Microsoft web pages also tend to be massively bloated. It shouldn't take 40K of style data to display less than 2k of text.
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Neofish
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k, i'll see what i can do, if my order stuff arrives tmoz then it'll take a while, otherwise i'll do it quite quickly, PS. are those the colours? what colouras do u want?


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Douglass
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look,you really dont have to do this the dwarf editor is what i was looking for. but thanks again.


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ok then, i was bored


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