Help me with website please...

I have the jist of what I want on my hopefully-soon-to-be site, but I'm really not one to do design and implementation of creative-looking things. Could any of you help me out and design a basic site? My site will almost totally consist of tutorial and .txt downloads, and I'm really happy cuz I've just found a provider that will allow me myname.theirname.com and I have unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth. So, yeh, can someone help me? I could do something for you if need be, including send in some money to you or something, although I don't have a _ton_ of that to spend. Thanks.

Do you have any content made yet, or a URL so we can see? I have some experience with web design, and I will try to help you the best I can.

Well there are a lot of subdomain providers. And you need to be careful because many of them state that they can at any time remove your site and all its content without your permission. As for your design there is so much great software out there, there is Namo which is pretty nice, dreamweaver is a really cool proggie to design a site and there are demos of both these products. For free ones I suggest you go to http://www.download.com and check out their web section. They have tons of tools, html, java and other ones. Have a fun cruising their shareware library.

alittlebitnumb: I have reviews of different tutorials written already, but no site yet. I want it to be appealing to the viewer, as well as something new and/or useful. Most tute sites I've seen don't have good descriptions of their tutorials up, so I have written some myself, I'm just wanting something to "fill in the blank" on... like a layout, but a man-made one instead of one mass-produced by a company.

khakisrule: Yeh, I have some WYSIWYG progs right now, but like I said I'm just not Mr. Originality when it comes to designing things. I could do it with a text editor when it comes to knowing _how_ to do it, I just can't come up with ideas on what to do exactly which is why I ask here. :) Thanks.

Look up macromedia's suite of design tools. When combined you can create some truly awesome looking pages. I like dreamweaver mx a lot. Its nice and ok in friendliness. With the other tools, like flash you can make a site look very professional.

jehnx

have a look here;

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231869

someone offering their services for free, might be worth a look.

Phat: Thank you very much. I have been contacted by "neel," and I will also PM this person and reply to their thread to see which one is could do the things I'm looking for. Thanks again to you all.

jehnx, give me a PM of what you want exactly and I will see what kind of design I can come up with. I will do what I can to help, or be in collaboration with others; a few heads are better than one.

well no need to say anything anymore...

alittlebitnumb: Thank you, too, for this. I recommend contacting neel, though, b/c I'm more-than-likely having him/her do it for me. Thank you 100 times for all of you guys' help. :)

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Thank you, too, for this. I recommend contacting neel, though, b/c I'm more-than-likely having him/her do it for me. Thank you 100 times for all of you guys' help.

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No problem, man. I'll see what neel says

This is for you

In this tutorial, I will begin to tell you how to build and manage a professional or personal website. In every well rounded website, their is a concept. The concept, or basic idea, is a must. You must know what your website is about. Once you have that, you should work on getting a well rounded hosting plan and a domain. To find such cheap hosting and domain prices, one can search www.google.com for WebHosting or Cheap Domains. After finding a good price for hosting and the domain, purchase it. If you can not purchase a domain, use a free domain service such as cjb.net or dot.tk. For free hosting, try www.netfirms.com or www.geocities.com. Now for the website making. If you have a hosting account with geocities or tripod, you may use their pagebuilder. I personally like to design my websites in a scripting language such as PHP or HTML. Added languages, such as CGI and JavaScript, can be used to enhance a website. If you are to design your own site, try getting a html website builder. I would go with CoffeeCup or Microsoft's FrontPage. Either would work out very nicely. Try searching google again for CGI or Java Scripts. These can be used to make your website more lively. Now after building your website, how will you put it on? Well, if using netfirms, the you would transfer your website through to a ftp server. Use your FTP Client (CuteFTP, etc) to transfer it. Apon signing up to netfirms, you will recieve and ftp username, address, and password. If for instance, your address is gloats.netfirms.com, you will upload by going into your browser, typing

ftp://www.gloats.netfirms.com

right click and login as. From their, just insert your username and password. You will then be directed to your cgi-bin or a www folder. You should upload your website into the www folder and from their, your website will be published onto the net for people to see. If you are to make changes, just edit your website with the html editor and save the changes. Then go through the simple ftp steps to re-load your website onto the ftp server. That's all for now. Next edition, I'll be talking about advanced php website making.

Well, seems to me this site is promoting hacking by unfair treatment, if more servers go down thats the webmasters fault for letting immature people control his website, Today I got a very, very stupid message saying, "you been asking inappropriate questions like "How Can I Hack HotMail"? Stop!", Yet I never even asked ONE question reguarding anything, the only thing I do on here is state my opinions, seems to me someone likes harrassing me about my point of view, if you don't like me, you can go suck a dick, or you can simply ignore me, you don't have to ****ing threaten me with your lame and immature lies saying i'm asking **** you came up with right out of ****ing nowhere, so i'm continuing to protest until this harrassment stops, or I get banned, if I do it won't be a big loss, because all i do on here is chat and state my opinions, and if you don't like it, you can take YOUR opinion and shove it up your ass...

Do the site yourself!! That's half the fun of having you're own site up, is that you created it. Since you're new, I suggest Frontpage, as Macromedia Dreamweaver is a little difficult for the new designer. Frontpage comes free with Office 2000, or if you're a GNU/Linux User :D Then user Netscape Collabra... When you get the site up, send me the URL!!!




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lol, I'm not new at all bro, I just have no artistic bone in my body. Like I said in my original post, I _can_ do the coding for the site, but just can't come up with good ideas. Um, yeh, but thanks for the suggestions of WYSIWYGs though. :)

No offense 4FBI but jehnx, you might wanna see JC's tutorial on good site management. I myself have never read it cuz I am really lazy but it might help you out. http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231331

jehnx -- it looks like I'm a bit late for this, but I was in the same boat as you. I knew what I wanted my site to contain, but as for visual design I have no talent. I found a great site full of people creating website designs for fun, and posting them for you to snatch and use. Check out Open Source Web Designs at: http://www.oswd.org. After I found a design I liked, I adopted it, and made changes where I saw fit, but I mostly kept the original design. My site (in profile) is an almost direct copy of the MOD TWEEDY design by Dan Hersam.

Hope these guys can help you! The content you want to post sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing it. :bigsmile:

Well, then I suggest Frontpage, it has a lot of great looking wizards to help you along...



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And 4crack, to your tut, lol. Why did you post that seriously? Just wondering cause he is asking how to design and you started talking about domains and ftp servers. Made no sense to me/

I would suggest 1st Page 2000.
It's free for download at http://www.evrsoft.com

It includes 100s of scripts which you can cut 'n paste into your document. It has multiple interfaces for the program variing from newbie to expert. And most important, it includes a documentation of ALL html tags, CSS and javascript. When at some point the documentation is not complete, it contains a usefull link to a site where the documentation contineus.

If you are looking for somewhere to learn html I would suggest http://www.w3schools.com.

Hope this helped.

I'd be happy to help out too, not fussed about cash rewards either.

BTW, if you need any grafix, PM me. I'll be happy to help you out.

Just don't forget to put my name in the thanx list! ;)
No just kiddin, i don't care even if you claim them as your own in your resume. :D

it's getting nice, professional, easy, fast, easy and tekst based for maximum compaeteabylity

If nothing pans out with the others, contact me.

jehnx,

just a couple places to start. make sure that you have your content laid out nice and concisely. "expected" navigation goes a long way in design. don't try and overload your pages with text and images. info-glut is big turn off. and try and make good use of your white space.
check out builder.com as a good all around resource plus the layout is pretty smooth.

hope it helps. feel free to PM if you have any more questions.

happy designing.

Thanks a ton, again, for everyone who's been adding to this thread and my knowledge with their advice and links. :) And thanks to anyone who's offered to help. :) :)

I dont see the problem of helping people out for free....


Sickdwarf has helped me many time.....just for free and just to learn more about designing, flash or photoshop.

I think it's cool to help eachother....so keep up the good work.

Thanx PvZ. :)

EDIT >>> Oh yeah, the link under my name is cool. But its http://www.sickdwarf.COM.

lol

Free web templates can be found at: Open Source Web Design, some of which are very good, if you don't feel like creating your own design (I don't blame you, I've spent well over 4 years rebuilding my site from scratch - and that's with 5 years HTML experience!).

Roswell already posted that link, please read the thread before you post next time.

jehnx, are you maybe loking for hosting? i could supply you with a nice amout.

talk to me. PM, IM or email would be the best

pm> on here
im on aim> itsrestricted
email> except[at]att[dot]net