well singlemalt

by LitKicks Staff

Posted to Utterances on 2003-10-22 11:48:00

Parent message is 532212
I think it depends on what you’re going to be doing with this webpage and what other things you may want to do with the software other than building a webpage. Are you planning to get down and dirty or do you just want a simple site? Are you interested in graphic design or mainly content? I think it really does help to think about that before deciding to spend any money at all.

I personally think Dreamweaver is unnecessarily complicated and expensive, especially if you’re used to using the Microsoft office suite of products. As with any program, there will be things you can do with one (or things you can do more easily) than you can with another and vice versa.

I prefer to use FrontPage if I’m using a tool/editor at all because it blends well with everything else I’m using. Of course, I’m one of the rare few who doesn’t believe that Windows, Microsoft and/or Bill Gates is the chupacabra or the root of all the world’s ills.

Flash is nice, but unnecessary if you’re just starting out in building a page. Also, see my comments on Dreamweaver above re: price and quirkability.

Finally, I think what I would recommend is for you to do two things (if you haven’t already, ok three)… Try building a simple page just with HTML by hand. Nothing fancy and if you want some resources, just let me know. Two, see if anyone you know will let you play around with their versions of these programs and see which ones you feel more comfortable using. Because there’s no use in spending money on something that someone else says is good if you hate using it. and Three… there are plenty of good freeware/shareware/trial programs you can download and test out that may be able to give you what you need, whether it’s for graphic design, flash/animation or HTML editing.

Can I ask who you’ve selected to use as a host? Depending on your host/webspace you may be limited to what features you can use anyway…

hope this helps…

-firecracker