Dennis
11-30-2003, 08:43 PM
I have come up with a really cool idea for a website that won't take that much time (maybe 20 minutes a day) to keep current.. and I'd like to give it a shot.
y problem, however, is that I am not all that experienced in web publishing - just dabbled a bit here and there. I have used the high-end programs at previous jobs (Dreamweaver, etc) but I was wondering what software I should use. I obviously am not a HTML wiz-kid, so I'm looking for something more along the lines of the Dreamweaver software.
But before I go and invest the time in downloading the demos of the software, I wanted to know which one I should try first. My site is basically going to be fairly simple, but the main page will be updated on a regular basis with an archive kept of old pages (not necessarily intact, but rather each of the entries on the main page kept in a searchable archive).
The idea is a website that filters out the GOOD news from a number of mainstream news sources (cable news websites, newspaper websites, etc) and links to those stories in a Drudge Report format (but his website is decidedly UN-flashy - I want at least some style to it). I'm basically sick of hearing only bad news in the media, and I want to focus on just the good. There are good stories out there, but they are sometimes a bit harder to find through the piles and piles of negativity that prevails in today's mainstream press. Iraq, for example, is undergoing a huge process of change led in a large part by the U.S. troops who are on the ground there, but you wouldn't know it because a roadside bomb injured one of them today or a helicopter crashed and that is all you hear about.
I figure asking EQ people would be a good place to find out, because some of you run your guild's webpages, and the kind of site I will be running will be somewhat similar to those, I guess.
--Dennis
y problem, however, is that I am not all that experienced in web publishing - just dabbled a bit here and there. I have used the high-end programs at previous jobs (Dreamweaver, etc) but I was wondering what software I should use. I obviously am not a HTML wiz-kid, so I'm looking for something more along the lines of the Dreamweaver software.
But before I go and invest the time in downloading the demos of the software, I wanted to know which one I should try first. My site is basically going to be fairly simple, but the main page will be updated on a regular basis with an archive kept of old pages (not necessarily intact, but rather each of the entries on the main page kept in a searchable archive).
The idea is a website that filters out the GOOD news from a number of mainstream news sources (cable news websites, newspaper websites, etc) and links to those stories in a Drudge Report format (but his website is decidedly UN-flashy - I want at least some style to it). I'm basically sick of hearing only bad news in the media, and I want to focus on just the good. There are good stories out there, but they are sometimes a bit harder to find through the piles and piles of negativity that prevails in today's mainstream press. Iraq, for example, is undergoing a huge process of change led in a large part by the U.S. troops who are on the ground there, but you wouldn't know it because a roadside bomb injured one of them today or a helicopter crashed and that is all you hear about.
I figure asking EQ people would be a good place to find out, because some of you run your guild's webpages, and the kind of site I will be running will be somewhat similar to those, I guess.
--Dennis