BigDog1333
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Does anyone maintain their own website. If so how do you go about setting it up and what programs do you use? Thanks, Dave
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The_Vintagers
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MS-Word will save as HTML and it is easy to use. Save first page as INDEX.HTM and have links from it.
WS-FTP will upload files to your website.
Photo editor of your choice will size pictures before you post on web.
Any other questions?
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Bearnkat
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Yep, I maintain several sites. I've used Ready Hosting for years for my hosting, and Go Daddy for my registration services. To maintain my pages I used Microsoft's Frontpage 2003 (not available anymore) or just hard code using Notepad. I also use WS-FTP to upload the images and pages to my site and Photoshop for image sizing.
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Y-Guy
Tri-Cities, WA
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For a host I've been using ipower.com for several years with very few problems, handles my website and family email.
For design I use RapidWeaver on my Mac.
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magicbus
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I maintain a couple of sites and use the following free software:
Nvu - web page What You See Is What You Get design and publishing tool w/ built in FTP Click here for Nvu
Paint.NET - picture editing tool - Click here for Paint.NET
Ifranview - another photo tool - some do things easier than others Click here for Ifranview
Powerbullet Presenter - Used to create Flash images (fade, morphing, etc.) - Click here for Powerbullet
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Lucky Mr H
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I make my living by designing, coding, and maintaining web applications.
I use NetBeans for all web pages, java coding, etc. and GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) for photos. Both are free.
NetBeans has tremendous capability that you would probably only use about 5% of what it can do.
I would never use a MicroSoft product for web development. It puts too much Internet Explorer specific code in, and makes it bad for other browsers.
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Scrib
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What is it that you want to do?
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MudChucker
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Scrib wrote:What is it that you want to do?
seems one guy is thinking...
Im wondering if the most pertinent answer is actually a question... what kind of site would you like to put up ?
while I recognize that you have asked the hows and whats, but no one will be able to give you good information without first knowing what you sort of things you want this site of yours to do...
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Chris Bryant
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I agree with the "what do you want to do with it"- I run 3 websites, one static HTML that I built with 1st page, and now maintain with Quanta+ (though that is mainly a Linux application).
Don't use Microsoft anything for building websites- bad, bad code is produced.
Mozilla Seamonkey has a decent WYSIWYG editor.
But... for the other 2 websites, one is Wordpress the other Drupal- both of these live on the web server, and require little offline work. The Drupal site is going to be moved to Wordpress, though.
I'm with http://www.lunarpages.com/- they're fine, I can run as many websites as I want for a single price, and have unlimited webspace (right now my 3 sites take up a bit over 1 gig of space).
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tatest
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I used to. I used only HTML 3.2 (any browser could handle it, in the late '90s). I put it together with a text editor, let AOL host it. Wasn't as much as 5MB for about a dozen pages. I put about 30 personal pages, and a departmental web site, on a corporate intranet host, same way: HTML and text editor. HTML is easy to learn, easy to use, especially if you started writing text documents using markup languages, before the days of WYSIWYG word processors.
Higher level, especially interactive, web tools (XTML, Java, ActiveX) require the use of dedicated development software.
I lost access and interest when I went overseas to work for a few years. My web site sits out there, describing my life at the end of the millenium. I'm not even sure how to find it.
Since I've been back in the U.S., things changed. Many web hosts, some free, some a few dollars a month, and they provide the development tools. At the same time, web culture has changed, more people blog (or write journals) rather than build web sites.
Think about what you actually want to do.
If it is about telling the story of your travels, a blog host may be better than a web site. Blogging sites are very easy to use.
If it is about building a commercial sales tool, or writing an internally cross-referenced technical manual, a more traditional web site would work better. Both are equally accessible to people using the World Wide Web.
If you want to run a forum like this, you need a special forum host, or forum development tools for a web host. Yahoo hosts forums that have low traffic volume.
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