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Um, I've been thinking with my new computer I might make a few web-sites. I know rudimentary html - but would rather use one of those 'drag/drop' page makers... what is a good one?
Bascially I want to do two sites. 1. Just putting on-line all the starship pictures I have collected over the last five years on the 'net.
2. I thought I might use my new scanner to scan in all the doodles and drawings and diagrams and sketches of ships that I have drawn in numerous books over the years. some are no more than rough sketches... but I know there would be a few of you out there that would appreciate it. Plus someone might like what they see and do a 3d version of it or something!?!
just an aside - does anyone have a good tutorial page for a program like lightwave?
Andrew
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I use just MS Frontpage Express as I do very simple stuff, when I ever do work on my webpages. And you should give credit for those pics you've collected. If you forgot who you got them from, you should put up a notice that credit will be given as soon as you find out who to give it to. Provide an email address so that you can be contacted by the rightful "owners" of the pics and can credit them. And I would not suggest putting up all the pics you have from the last 5 years as no doubt you've got hundreds... maybe thousands of them. If you want to eventually get them all posted at one time or another, rotate them every time you update and notify your viewers when you update and what you've updated.
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I would stay far away from anything with the Front Page label on it. I've heard so many stories about bugs and invalid HTML code produced by that program, it's not funny. The thing is, that most of the bugs in FP's code are designed to plug holes in Internet Explorer's page-rendering process! And I know firsthand, too -- because I very rarely use IE to browse the web.
Given that this is just a starter site for you, I'd suggest trying something like Macromedia HomeSite. I've never used it myself, but I've heard some good things about it and I've used Macromedia Dreamweaver -- which I *know* is a good program, so I would speculate that Macromedia's HomeSite program would be reasonably good.
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Actually, don't totally knock FP. It's a great way to learn basic page creation - then you learn the actual code while going in to manually fix all the bloody errors FP makes.
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The latest FrontPage is better, I've heard. But it's still no good HTML. And whatever you do, DON'T USE WORD!! I'm not a big fan of WYSIWYG HTML editors. I use HomeSite myself. You basically write your own HTML, but there are enough tools and wizards to do the tricky and repetitive work for you.
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About the pictures... I know most of the web-sites that I got them from.
Also, why do you have to credit anyone - really... cause it's not their product - they might have scanned or captured the thing... but it's not as if they even have the rights to it.
And what would be the point of not putting up ALL the pictures - that is what I want to do. It'll be a place where - say if here youo want to discuss a ship, you'll have lots and lots of versions of the to choose to look at.
Andrew
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Andrew, if you don't want to credit people for their scans, then you should try doing all the scans yourself. Scanning may be easy but the entire process can also be quite time consuming. Especially when you take into account cleaning up and editing of scanned images.
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/me still uses trusty ol' Notepad for all things HTML, PHP, and Javascript. Works better than any frontend utility, and there's something to be said for doing things manually.
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I agree with the Notepad/code yourself people. Cleaner code makes for a better site, as does a proper layout....
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Crediting people for their scans is the Polite Thing to do. Imagine if someone else put up all your pictures without even mentioning you or your site.
And for manual coding, a nice editor might be Scintilla. It has colorcoding for all major languages (including HTML, JavaScript and PHP, but also Java, C(++)) and has a good search/replace system. I find colorcoding very helpful. HomeSite has it too, and it really makes your code easier to read.
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I'm no expert, but I use Dreamweaver for all my web stuff, including all the web jobs I've done. It's always worked pretty well, though I'm quite sure the code could be cleaner if it was being done by someone who knew what they were doing. My designs tend to be somewhat complicated, though, at least to me, and if I were to try and do it straight, I'd never get it.
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When I last rebuilt my PC, I didn't even bother to reinstall FP. Maybe if I'd had 2000 on disk, but I only had 98. So right now I'm using a mixture of Dreamweaver and Notepad.
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I use Notetab Light. Great freeware text editor. Has librarys for easier HTML coding. I'd recomend it to anyone who uses Notepad. That's how I build all my pages.
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I've heard so many stories about bugs and invalid HTML code produced by that program, it's not funny. The thing is, that most of the bugs in FP's code are designed to plug holes in Internet Explorer's page-rendering process! And I know firsthand, too -- because I very rarely use IE to browse the web.
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