Website templates

[Peter Sharpe]

Can anyone recommend a cheap, or even better still free, website program with a good choice of templates?

I have created my own site with Freeserve's Site Builder, but they seem to have a very strange idea of what constitutes a practical page format. The only way you can have text and images on the same page, is to have a string of small photos on either side of the page, and a ridiculously narrow column of text. The templates with a reasonable width of text do not allow you to add photos, and you are not able to customise these parameters.

I know absolutely nothing about html. I tried a trial copy of Homesite, and found it to be completely baffling, and I couldn't get the wizards to work.

 

You can see my attempt at: http://mysite.freeserve.com/fishytales/index.jhtml

This does contain links to pages on a rival site, but can the mods please leave it here until I have had one or two replies? I really need something as easy to use as the Freeserve program, but with useful templates. I will worry about finding a way to upload it later, but I have a feeling that getting the photos to display is going to be a right pain.

[Elton]

Peter Sharpe:

This does contain links to pages on a rival site, but can the mods please leave it here until I have had one or two replies?

Eh? :confused: Where on earth do you get this 'rival' business from? I've been having a chat with Stephen Lane only this week about cross promotion, as it happens. Never, ever, has FishingWarehouse been at odds with Anglers' Net.

 

You wanna see links to 'rival' sites, take a look at http://www.go-fishing.co.uk/ - there are over 1400 on there. Please save me from the mods

 

Elton

[Peter Sharpe]

Thanks for that Elton. I wasn't quite sure about the etiquette, so I was quite prepared for it to be removed when I'd had a few responses.

[Elton]

Peter Sharpe:

Thanks for that Elton. I wasn't quite sure about the etiquette, so I was quite prepared for it to be removed when I'd had a few responses.

No worries

 

Can't help you with the template thing, though - have you tried Frontpage or Dreamweaver?

 

Tight lines,

 

Elton

[Peter Sharpe]

That's a typical reply from a techie

That's far too ambitious and expensive for me. I need something thats almost entirely wysiwyg.

I've carried out a Google search, but it's not really all that helpful. I really need a recommendation from someone who has used a basic package that still allows a bit of creativity.

[Elton]

Peter Sharpe:

That's a typical reply from a techie    

That's far too ambitious and expensive for me. I need something thats almost entirely wysiwyg.

I've carried out a Google search, but it's not really all that helpful. I really need a recommendation from someone who has used a basic package that still allows a bit of creativity.

Peter,

 

Believe me, I'm about as far from techie as you can get

 

Frontpage, most definitely, is wysiwyg. I got a copy a few years ago, a mate showed me how to do one page and then I went from there. Whenever I needed anything technical doing, I asked a mate.

 

Things are pretty much the same today...

 

Cheers,

 

Elton

[boswold]

Hi Peter.

 

My advice would be to get a few issues of 'Web Pages Made Easy' magazine. You get a free program with every issue. The best I have found so far is a prog called 'Web Personal Edition' I know very little about html etc but built my site with no problems what so ever and uploaded it on freeservers. You can have a look at my site at www.fish-on.htmlplanet.com

If you can't get hold of a copy of web personal edition send me an email and I'll try and copy it for you and post it on.

Cheers

Boz

[Newt]

Peter - take a look at http://www.anfyteam.com . They have a couple of great programs you can download and use for various bits of design work.

 

Also, I have a small collection of how-to articles in html documents I'd be happy to email to you if you want. 1.3Mb zip file. It is mostly a collection of ideas/techniques I really liked for doing things to web pages after I'd built the page with one of the standard packages.

[Peter Sharpe]

Thanks Newt, I may get back to you on that, but Boz's site is of the style I was aiming at, so I'll follow that route first to see how I get on.

[Zinky]

Dreamwaever 3 I can burn you a copy but it's at your risk????????? oops.

May be some of us could do you some templates and you finish off.

Or find a site you like and save that site the change to siut your requirements.

 

[ 24 May 2002, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: Dragonbat ]