Advice

WildBill · Jul 4, 2004

I was talking with a recruiter and he told me something that people in my particular field are getting noticed with is if they can do some webpage creation/maintenance. I am fairly savvy on the computer, but never been through creating a webpage. Would you guys suggest I buy a program to do this or just bone up with some books and learn to do some basic coding? Would it be worth it for me to practice and do some work on Dreamweaver or is that probably a bit more than I will need especially in light of its high price?

Thanks for any advice...

EveryGamblersDream · Jul 4, 2004

Well one thing I can say is if you need software, don't pay for it as I guarantee you could probably get it for free online.

WildBill · Jul 4, 2004

The reason I mentioned Dreamweaver is because it is used by most major corporations if they do use anything. It is a nice skill to put on a resume I suppose. I have seen it offered on EBay for about $100, far under the $399 list price. I wish I could just do it at work, but we have an insanely political IS department that would think we were going to take their jobs just playing around with website design.

1cheater · Jul 5, 2004

Bill, the best advice I could give would be to play around with Microsoft Frontpage. Learn how it all works, FTP's transfering and uploading of your work. This would be a great building block to moving onto to more advanced web page building. You can research all this stuff online very easily.. Start basic, step by step, before you know it you will be a pro! it is hard work, but well worth it.

I'll never forget the sence of satisfaction I got from building my first site; it was a tutorial for newbies to the poker tournaments at Flipsidre/WON. I put about 120 hours into it, but was well worth it.

Have fun with it.

1cheater · Jul 7, 2004

WildBill, you want Dreamweaver? I can get it for you

newbie666 · Jul 8, 2004

wild, imo, the best assembler is frontpage, i guess you have microsoft office then you build you ownpages over there.. now, i learned html just by viewing the source on each page how they do some actions.. and copy and pasting it...
sometimes and most developers do,, they are looking for some specific action, you just remember what you read in the past,, ask in google, go in one page and copy and paste the code, and rewrite with the caracteristics you want.

the clue of a good page, is not the superlevel of programming it has... it is just how easy to navigate and the attractive colors it has... as for example this forum, what i like of this forum is how easy the reply and search buttons are displayed, instead of the php which is really good, but, for example the avatars doesn't have an specific width+height range...

anyways... frontpage has the caracteristics that work in the way of WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get.. but also you are able to view the source code if the case amerits, to redit trash source code...

also. if you have windows2000, it allows you to interact with databases, for example with access if you want to play around how the information is stored, and how to query the information and display it as you want...

also try to learn all as you can of color theory and arts,,, that helps a lot, you could also download a manual of being a webmaster in 21 days...

here is an example of one of my works:

http://199.239.230.1/