How to make a......

[Oliver]

My problem is that my homepage (Extime: http://www.hot.ee/extime) really sucks. So I just want to know how do make a homepage what doesn't suck? :-\ :'(

[Eigen]

Think a little bit. And you know it's easyer to make a page with some program than writing everything by yourself.


-Eigen

[Oliver]

Like that's gonig to answer my question ;D

[smartguy240]

Well...he does have a point...

Geocities Page Builder
Microsoft FrontPage
Dreamweaver
ect...

let you design pages from templates or just drag and drop...they also let you edit the HTML( some of them ) to add other stuff.

[AGI1122]

I design all of my html by hand in notepad... and I don't think I do so bad:
http://www.agigames.com/site.php
http://www.agigames.com/test/

Anyway, I would recommend using editors like mentioned before. Of course that is for beginners, the reason I don't use programs like that is because it adds extra stuff to the html code that I generally do not want. Most experts prefer to do their html themselves.

[Kon-Tiki]

Made my whole site using Putty and iXplorer (last one for uploading zips, gifs, etc). Done all the html-stuff in joe and can't say I don't like the result

-Kon-Tiki-

[mr-t]

Anyway, I would recommend using editors like mentioned before. Of course that is for beginners, the reason I don't use programs like that is because it adds extra stuff to the html code that I generally do not want. Most experts prefer to do their html themselves.

Or they use Dreamweaver MOEHAHAHAHAHA

[sonneveld]

I use a combination of Mozilla Composer, PHP and a text editor.

- Nick

[Rich]

I use wOmEn to get mine done. Go down on them and they take care of everything.

[jelleghys]

I design all of my html by hand in notepad...

Same here...

and I don't think I do so bad:

Same here??? I don't know


Anyway, if you want to write the code yourself: this is the site I like most: http://www.w3schools.com/

[Andrew_Baker]

I just ripped off Nick's website and modified it to possess my data.

[Oliver]

When I make page in the notepad then I hate the result (usually).

[Zonkie]

Try to make your page graphical first and sketch layouts. For example, design a left/top navigation bar. Then have a look what HTML would be most suitable, like frames, tables, CSS etc. Once that is done, make the graphics (either single buttons, or a graphic on a whole that you cut into single buttons) and put them on the page. Code the pages and make them as simple as possible - leave all your formatting to stylesheets. They control the formatting of specific commands such as

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<p>, <b>, <h1>...

.
If you want, you can add fancy rollover effects to your textlinks then using CSS.

The easiest is probably to have a two-frame page with a left (navigational) frame and a content frame. Design one menu and just let CSS take care of the formatting of the actual pages. That's how I did our webpage.

If you have any questions on CSS, feel free to ask.

Hope that helped,

Zonkie