Impatient!

[Tube]

I need to build a website for my business and would like to perhaps try it myself without learning HTML. I have microsoft frontpage but would like to use something more 'wizard' like where I can include forms that can be filled in by clients etc. Can anyone recommend any software that can be downloaded inorder to achieve this?

Many thanks.

[OuTpaTienT]

Oh, nevermind. Thought you were talking to me.

I'd offer to help, but I don't what program would be best for you. (I use notepad to make html pages).

[Warthog]

Well...it's not "impossible". Several years ago, I created a fun, stupid, site with MS Publisher 97. You don't have to know a single thing about html. Albeit, the site loads slower than average and doesn't look the greatest, but it's still a website.

I think your best bet would be to hire a web page designer. There are many good ones all over the place.

Warthog

[Axel]

If you have the need to do forms and have a bucket of cash - I recommend you load MS ACCESS as your back office and run Cold Fusion 4.5 Server modeled on Cold Fusion 4.5 studio linking into a database in the background.

Look up Allaire on the web as the manufacturer. We use it in the office and it's awesome what can be done with it. And forms without a database to correlate the data is a logistical nightmare you want to avoid....

[psyklone]

before you go and invest in a program like cold fusion server, i suggest looking into vulnerabilities. i don't have anything against cold fusion, i use the studio for doing html/asp stuff, but when it comes to running the server ... well, ANY server for that matter .... you definitely want to research known issues. i found several ones with cold fusion server recently, that's why i mention it specifically.

best of luck!

[qball]

Tube, creating a website without learning HTML is almost impossible. FrontPage is the most popular and one of the easiest HTML GUI editors. Iffin you can't use that, your gonna have a hard time. The use of forms in HTML needs to be understood, as the forms need to be processed through some mechanism on the server side, hardly trivial stuff for a novice.

I agree with OuT, notepad (or textpad in my case) is the best way to edit HTML. The GUI editors always taint the HTML with their proprietary tags, or unecessary tags. I find them very messy.

The best answer would be to hire someone else and have them do the site.

[Tube]

Any offers?

[KAknight]

Html is an extremely easy language to learn and an excellent skill to have. You can find a book for html just about anywhere. I suggest you buy a book and do it yourself. You will be glad in the long run.

[NDC]

try using ADOBE Golive in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop, you would be surprised what you can make. Adobe go live is WYSIWYG= What you see is what you get interface. Yes, I do agree that you should know HTML, but it isn't TOTALLY necessary to buld a great looking homepage.

FRONTPAGE, NAMO4 , etc are for total beginners. They don;t have the POWER that is required to make a professional home page.

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 08-06-2000).]