content management solutions, editing a website for a non-techie?
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You can find simple or complicated CMS, but if you're new to this field, you can use simple CMS with low cost. Here I add some good & cheap CMSs
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Tools, Internet Options, Content, Auto Complete
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This is an extremely simple CMS (Content Management System), yet it creates new pages, categories, articles, etc. and can be completely customized.  \n\nhttp://www.solucija.com/home/snews/\n\nThis would be great for news listings. If you need blogging software I'd go with wordpress.
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I would recommend using a Content Management System. Joomla is very good. It can easily help you build a dynamic site with lots of functionality. We've done a lot of Joomla sites and could help setting it up and all that.
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Well, you can hand craft HTML code in notepad, which is long and tedious.  Or you can use a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) program.  In such a program you pretty much drag and drop the content into the page and organize as you see fit.\n\nSuch programs include:\nAdobe GoLive\nMicrosoft Front Page\nMacromedia DreamWeaver\n\nI have used GoLive and DreamWeaver.  DreamWeaver is easier but if you use alot of Photoshop for image editing then GoLive might be for you.\n\nNOTE:  I would reccommend learning at least some HTML coding (by hand) before you jump into another program.  These programs do not always do what you think they should be doing and if you understand basic HTML coding you can fix what the program is doing wrong.\n\nGood luck and Have FUN!
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I think it's best that you "hand" code it in notepad because MSFontPage and other WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors insert a lot of unnecessary lines of code that slows down the loading time. A good place to start learing is lissaexplains.com . For graphics you could use GIMP which is free (Google or Yahoo it), if you think you're serious about making a good website and have money then you might want to consider buying and learning Photoshop ($600). Tutorials for GIMP and Photoshop can be found at pixel2life.com . A good webhost is pretty hard to find but you could always start with GeoCities (ad supported).
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There are Many (Everyone choose whatever he likes):-\n\n\nMS FRONTPAGE (i am using this with combination of others, very easy to use)\n\nComes with MS Office\n\n\nTOWEB : \nYou are looking for an easy-to-use software to quickly create a Web Site or a Blog without any web designing skills, without dealing with web programming stuff, without using a retouching software for your pictures and without being left alone in front of a blank page with dozens of incomprehensible options ? Then TOWeb is just made for you !\n\nhttp://www.lauyan.com/en/tw-home/index.html\n\n\nMacromedia® Studio 8:-\n\n is the must-have suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content.\n\nStudio comes with all assential tools used in advance level web designing\n\nDreamweaver 8\nThe industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.\n\nFlash Professional 8\nThe industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.\n\nFireworks 8\nBalance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control.\n\nContribute 3\nFreeing designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to easily update content in a controlled environment that preserves the integrity of the website.\n\nFlashPaper 2\nAllowing anyone to easily convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets and other file types into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click.\n\n\nhttp://www.adobe.com/products/studio/\n\nand lot more....
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Not if you are familiar with HTML, Some image editing and know to use tools to manage your website. But then someone familiar with website designing could do it far better, far quicker than you would.\n\nSo the verdict ? if you are just creating a personal site - do it yourself, but if you need a site for your business - talk to the guys who've done it before.
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1) Determine the objective of your website...whether its going to be a online photo album or a page about you and your family or a page about your passions say a favorite actress ( :) )...\n2) Once you decide what you want to make it on decide what all you are going to put up\n3) Once you are sure about what all you are going to put up (eg what pics,what text ..what scripts will you be using and all)..search for a good free web host which supports these features (Features such as a ftp client which will allow you to upload your pics,supports the kind of scripting you want like flash,javascript,cgi etc..)\n\nsome good ones are geocties.com,lycos.com,\nbravenet.com,pages.google.com( you will need a gmail id for google pages )\n\n4) Lot of these free web hosts provide website builders which have predefined templates to allow you create a decent website easily and quickly..if you are satisfied with that..well and good..but if you want some more customization then I suggest you get a free WYSIWYG HTML editor such as NVU ..(if you have microsoft frontpage already well and good..its quite good)..\n\n5) Using the editor you can easily create a website ..learning a bit of HTML to improve the site appearance wont harm anything..\n6) If you really want to spice up your website then i suggest you can implement some javascript ...you can learn it and do it or download the scripts from the net and put it on your site..here are some sites which have a lot of good scripts with various functionalities\n\n1) http://www.javascriptkit.com/\n2) http://www.a1javascripts.com/\n3)http://www.java-scripts.net/\n\n4) http://www.javafile.com/\n\n\nsome good html tutorials for your reference are \n\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/\nhttp://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html\nhttp://founderweb.com/html_tutorial/\nhttp://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp\n\nHappy building
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html only wont be enough...you'll have to know some server-side, say php + mysql...but you can have someone make the site for you and it may have an admin interface you can use to customize it...or you may even buy a ready package and customize that then...you'll need php and mysql hosting too...
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i'm a website developper... \nand to answer this as easy as possible...\nIf you want to do it yourself...take a course...there are good online ones...\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ \nbut you'll need software if you really want to get at it..\n\nDo this if it's for a personnal page...or just for fun...if it's for your business or anything profesionnal....hire somebody
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If its a free site, like bravenet or geocities site, they usually have a user friendly way to set up your site. I've used a program called dreamweaver, which is a nice program to use because it already writes the codes for you, behind the scene, so you can focus more on the appearance in a visual way, which most people need.
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Make original content that people like and you shouldn't have a problem. The only thing you should modify for the search engines is the meta tags. Javascripts/plugins/scripts are just ignored and it's no big deal. Just dont use flash if you want them to make contextual references.\n\nMarkup softwares wont help. They'll still parse your page in a fraction of a second and extract/order non tagged words.
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Taking everything you said into consideration something is obviously wrong with their site. What I would do if I was you and really wanted to get my site listed there follow their instructions on becoming a editor then you can put your site there yourself.\n\nJoin the Open Directory Project\nFind a category that you would like to maintain. \nFollow the Become an Editor link at the top of the category page. \nNote that some categories do not have a Become an Editor link; you should find a more specific category which interests you, and apply there. Once you have joined, and gained some experience, you can apply for more general categories.\n\nhttp://dmoz.org/about.html
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You can go with Godaddy.com or I htink that yahoo also sell domain names now. As for design and set up, it's best to find some sort of content management system that is already packaged. YOu would have select one and then learn either php or asp or jsp and a database like MYSQL to st it up.. you should look up "open source content management system" and hopefully find one that doesn't require databases.
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Use a combination of things: AJAX, CSS stylesheets, DHTML, Javascript, and XHTML.\n\nUse "div" XHTML elements to contain the parts you want to be able to move around as a chunk of content.  I think you need to mark them as "float" too.\n\nMake sure they have drag event handlers on them too, so it is possible to see where they are moving.\n\nThese days, a lot of programmers/developers use Javascript libraries to handle the Javascript programming for them. Some very good ones are free.\n\nYou might need some software on another computer, to keep track of what is giong on and store the user's layout - not to mention provide the content for it. People are starting to use Ruby On Rails framework for this.  It is written in the Ruby programming language.\n\nIf you don't already know XHTML or HTML, stop by the W3 web site to get acquainted with it first.  Then you can look into the Javascript resources you will need for your front end.  Last of all, figure out how to manage the content and layouts.
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If you have Word (like, 2000 or later) it has a very functional and very simple web editor.\n\nIt's all pretty much point, click, and place.\n\nAll you need is the files.