Website building tools

Coatlicue [KoE] · Post by **Coatlicue [KoE]** » October 11, 2004, 5:46 pm

Does anyone know of a program I can use on my iMac at work to build websites? We currently use Claris Home Page 3 and it sucks ass. Currently using Mac OS 9.1 (blah!).

I'd appreciate any help and/or suggestions!!

Thanks

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 11, 2004, 5:51 pm

I personally like Go Live from Adobe and after that Dreamweaver is pretty good too.

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » October 11, 2004, 8:47 pm

Dreamweaver will let you do database development at a later point, Adobe stripped the built-in capability out of GoLive last release.

I've been using and teaching both for the last 5 years and I'll have to say, Dreamweaver kicks GoLive's ass.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » October 11, 2004, 11:04 pm

Macromedia Dreamweaver would be your best bet for web page design. If you wanted to go more code and database oriented you can try Fusion. Adobe also has ImageReady which allows you slice a psd file into sections for images/rollovers/html transfer.

I can't wait for Flash 8, I've already seen a preview of it and omfg it's going to own.

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » October 11, 2004, 11:13 pm

You mean ColdFusion? Dreamweaver will let you build (natively) PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, CF, and JSP...

Of course, you can hand code it all if you want.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » October 12, 2004, 4:00 am

Yeah, I meant ColdFusion

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » October 13, 2004, 9:38 am

BBEdit~!

Arundel Pajo · Post by **Arundel Pajo** » October 13, 2004, 11:26 am

Boogahz wrote:BBEdit~!

Yep. That should be all you need. That or simpletext.

edit... Dreamweaver's not *bad* for a WYSIWYG program, but I still refuse to use it. Stay the hell away from GoLive.

Post by **Xouqoa** » October 13, 2004, 12:47 pm

Dreamweaver isn't bad if you use the HomeSite layout, which is the 'code view'. I don't ever use the WSYIWYG functions, they don't work well with ColdFusion anyway.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » October 13, 2004, 1:05 pm

Am I the only guy that really uses just Notepad these days?

Arundel Pajo · Post by **Arundel Pajo** » October 13, 2004, 1:10 pm

Akaran_D wrote:Am I the only guy that really uses just Notepad these days?

See my above mention of Simpletext. That's the Mac version of Notepad.

On a PC...yes, use Notepad.

Coatlicue [KoE] · Post by **Coatlicue [KoE]** » October 13, 2004, 6:29 pm

I don't have a problem with simpletext and notepad type applications. I'll mainly be the one building the website, but my boss needs to know how to use it too. He can't write code to save his life. he's a drag and drop kinda guy

Our website sucks and it's so boring, even I'm embarrassed to go to it and look at it!! I keep telling him I want to make something that pops and catches someone's eye... make people WANT to go to the site and use it.

take a look: http://www.northpakamerican.com

SUCKS eh??

Thanks for the suggestions peeps, I'll try dreamweaver and see how that works.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 13, 2004, 6:39 pm

It is pretty straight forward and functional. I have always been a 'function over form' man myself but it is true that there needs to be a bit more to that site.

I don't use Go Live as much I used to and I Dreamweaver even less. I mainly work in Flash. Don't know why I like it so much.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » October 14, 2004, 1:33 am

That website makes me want to cry

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » October 14, 2004, 4:09 pm

Akaran_D wrote:Am I the only guy that really uses just Notepad these days?

Notepad is teh r0xx0r.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » October 14, 2004, 4:26 pm

I use cpanel's text editing more than Notepad, saves me up reuploading every time I make an edit.

Cracc · Post by **Cracc** » October 14, 2004, 8:34 pm

emacs