Website design software - recommendations?

[Proto]

I need to pt together a simple website. Not an all singing and dancing jobbie, more of an electronic brochure for our little engineering company, maybe five or six pages.

I made our last website but it is hopelssly out of date. However I can't remember what software I used. Anyone know of anything simple and very user friendly that doesn't cost a fortune? Ta.

 

[Proto]

Just noticed that Gareth has asked a very similar question.

 

[ACS]

I need to pt together a simple website. Not an all singing and dancing jobbie, more of an electronic brochure for our little engineering company, maybe five or six pages.

I made our last website but it is hopelssly out of date. However I can't remember what software I used. Anyone know of anything simple and very user friendly that doesn't cost a fortune? Ta.

Notepad ?

Little bit of html and your away.

how about here

More advanced: Microsoft Web Developer for ASP pages

PHP use a CMS eg Joomla

Lots of options it depends what you want to intergrate into the site; bells and whistles wise.

 

[HJ]

Notepad ?

Little bit of html and your away.

how about here

More advanced: Microsoft Web Developer for ASP pages

PHP use a CMS eg Joomla

Lots of options it depends what you want to intergrate into the site; bells and whistles wise.

ASP?? Get real, use PHP...


To be more serious, possibly the easiest way is to use something like WordPress, it is easy to use, there are plenty of free templates, and you can get a very slick looking site up and running in a couple of hours.

 

[ACS]

ASP?? Get real, use PHP...


To be more serious, possibly the easiest way is to use something like WordPress, it is easy to use, there are plenty of free templates, and you can get a very slick looking site up and running in a couple of hours.

Unless you are designing for a windows based platform (intranet/iis?) when PHP is about as much use as chocolate fireguard.

I have to switch between both and HTML, Intranet is in ASP while the VLE is PHP, MySql. No wonder I am such a mixed up cookie. Now where did I put that C# book?

 

[HJ]

I think you will fine PHP runs very nicely on windows systems, you just need a really web server, not this micky mouse IIS stuff...

 

[Carwash]

ASP?? Get real, use PHP...

PHP is a nice web templating language which is very easy to set up and learn.

 

[ACS]

I think you will fine PHP runs very nicely on windows systems, you just need a really web server, not this micky mouse IIS stuff...

Your are quite correct PHP, MySQL will run very nicely on XAMPP with no trouble what so ever and I have thought about migrating the ASP across to PHP, however, when it comes to the crunch I really cannot be bothered and have another cup of tea.

One day when I haven't got 30 other things to do like move the entire system over to VMWare, throw together a 5 year IT business stratergy before Friday next, learn the vagaries of SIMS (I hate SIMS more than dancing on ice with wheelchairs in Blackpool on weekend; thats a lot of hate) and provide guidance to teaching staff on how to use Moodle (you cannot teach teachers) then I may think about it again before putting the kettle on.

 

[vernon]

I need to pt together a simple website. Not an all singing and dancing jobbie, more of an electronic brochure for our little engineering company, maybe five or six pages.

I made our last website but it is hopelssly out of date. However I can't remember what software I used. Anyone know of anything simple and very user friendly that doesn't cost a fortune? Ta.

You want something simple then try Serif Pageplus from Serif Software.

Don't go down the route of using Wordpress - you'll spend more time figuring out how to make it work than making the pages - I know I've been there.

You can have a play with the free version of the software here

PHP, mySQL, ASP, and CMS are for people with delusions of superiority

 

[vernon]

Your are quite correct PHP, MySQL will run very nicely on XAMPP with no trouble what so ever and I have thought about migrating the ASP across to PHP, however, when it comes to the crunch I really cannot be bothered and have another cup of tea.

One day when I haven't got 30 other things to do like move the entire system over to VMWare, throw together a 5 year IT business stratergy before Friday next, learn the vagaries of SIMS (I hate SIMS more than dancing on ice with wheelchairs in Blackpool on weekend; thats a lot of hate) and provide guidance to teaching staff on how to use Moodle (you cannot teach teachers) then I may think about it again before putting the kettle on.

Just wait until you have a managed system forced upon you under the BSF scheme. You will be reduced to being a box shifter and if you can't teach teachers then you haven't filtered out the geek content of the lessons. Things could be worse you could have a Moodle system sitting on top of a digital repository that needs all of the content tagging before being entered.

It's come as a surprise to the system designers that there is next to no content on my school's Moodle system and that the digital repository has been a monumental failure.

 

[gaz]

Lets be honest. ASP.NET pretty much rapes PHP...

 

[Carwash]

Lets be honest. ASP.NET pretty much rapes PHP...

For anything beyond trivial web templating, pretty much *any* general-purpose programming language with a CGI library rapes PHP. But this is a thread about trivial web templating.

(And you chose *ASP.NET* as your exemplar of superiority? Srsly?

 

[gaz]

(And you chose *ASP.NET* as your exemplar of superiority? Srsly?

would you prefer RoR?

 

[Carwash]

would you prefer RoR?

For starters I think I'd prefer something that didn't lock you in to a single platform.

(Yes, I know you can make your ASP.NET scripts run under mono. I've done that before, and it works... but it's not an experience I would willingly undergo again, nor one I would wish on anyone else.)

 

[Shaun]

Don't mention Perl ... I mentioned it once and I think I got away with it ...

Erm, guys, I think the OP wanted a recommendation for something simple that a non-techie could get into.

They can come back later for the in-depth stuff once they've mastered the basics of HTML and CSS.

Cheers,
Shaun