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Originally Posted by Ed Shacklee
Is there software or an online tutorial that Spherians would recommend for building and maintaining a website?
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Ed,
What seems simple gets complicated very quickly as the site grows, and clean and simple is actually harder than cluttered and messy...
Very few people code by hand anymore. Most people use a software package, like Dreamweaver, to create the HTML for them. Many sites have databases that actually hold all their information, and people use dreamweaver to create the interface between the database and the browser.
You can see this happening on this very page. If you're in Firefox, move your mouse to the top left of your screen. Click VIEW, and then click PAGE SOURCE. That should give you a text file. You can see, if you scroll way down, the actual text you read, but you can also see all the auto-generated coding.
Anyway, a copy of dreamweaver, or its free equivalents, can take you a very long way very quickly. It's very much like cooking: for some people, frying an egg is difficult. For others, cooking is a fascinating creative art. And you never know which kind of person you are until you try...
Thanks,
Bill