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I once heard someone say that making a website isn't hard, just make a template in photoshop then open it on dreamweaver to turn it into css. Is that really how easy it is? You just make your own template, put it in dreamweaver, and it will give you the html and stuff for the website?

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Shortcuts may save you x hours in getting something up and working but then you'll spend 2x trying to get it to work properly in every browser.

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With SiteGrinder it could work this way, but the code will be a mess.

What do you mean by "a mess"? Like it wont end up looking like it did in photoshop?

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Honestly, WordPress with some plugins on top handle most website needs. Of course it can be fun to code your own, but from a practical standpoint setting up a blog or a CMS is a lot easier and produces good results.

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Alright, this is just something I threw together in paint. That is basically how I want the site to look. What would be the easiet way for me to accomplish that? Wordpress?

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Alright, this is just something I threw together in paint. That is basically how I want the site to look. What would be the easiet way for me to accomplish that? Wordpress?

Every CMS has its specifics / limitations, so it'd be easier if you show us the picture and explain in brief how you want things to work, so we can decide which one to recommend.

Or you can just PM me, I'll give you a good price and all your worries are gone.

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well, depends on what you want really... been in web design for many years now... finally starting up my studio, and do quite a bit of freelance work..!for me, concept to final is very easy!!

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Every CMS has its specifics / limitations, so it'd be easier if you show us the picture and explain in brief how you want things to work, so we can decide which one to recommend.

Or you can just PM me, I'll give you a good price and all your worries are gone.

Sorry. It didn't attach in my last post. Here it is.

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that is VERY easy to setup!!!!

What should I use to do it then? My dad wants me to redo his site www.etexasrentals.com to make it look neater. He uses Yahoo site builder, I told him I could delete some stuff, etc. but I won't really be able to make him a new one, but he wants me to learn so I can have side jobs when I'm in college. So what would be easiest for me to use to make that? Wordpress?

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What should I use to do it then? My dad wants me to redo his site www.etexasrentals.com to make it look neater. He uses Yahoo site builder, I told him I could delete some stuff, etc. but I won't really be able to make him a new one, but he wants me to learn so I can have side jobs when I'm in college. So what would be easiest for me to use to make that? Wordpress?

yeah, either wordpress, or joomla...

had a look at the site... and it needs some serious TLC...! :)

If the content does not need to be altered often, you could go for a static website... if you go for the joomla type system, you can integrate payment gateways etc... and it might be easier for him to make alterations himself to content..

Does he manage the bookings by direct emails or phone / fax? and does he want to do online bookings and payment gateways???

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What should I use to do it then? My dad wants me to redo his site www.etexasrentals.com to make it look neater. He uses Yahoo site builder, I told him I could delete some stuff, etc. but I won't really be able to make him a new one, but he wants me to learn so I can have side jobs when I'm in college. So what would be easiest for me to use to make that? Wordpress?

You don't need CMS since you don't have content to add/remove frequently (judging by your previous site), so you can start it and finish it as static HTML - easy and fast.

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You don't need CMS since you don't have content to add/remove frequently (judging by your previous site), so you can start it and finish it as static HTML - easy and fast.

Is there a program I use to make a static HTML website? I don't really know much html or css at all.

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Is there a program I use to make a static HTML website? I don't really know much html or css at all.

There is dreamweaver and frontpage. I use photoshop and notepad.

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There is dreamweaver and frontpage. I use photoshop and notepad.

How do you use notepad for it? Or do you just know HTML and stuff so well you can code it all yourself?

P.S. That is a bad A signature man.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css"> 
<!-- 
body  {
	font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #666666;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #000000;
}

.thrColElsHdr #container { 
	width: 46em;  /* this width will create a container that will fit in an 800px browser window if text is left at browser default font sizes */
	background: #FFFFFF;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
} 
.thrColElsHdr #header { 
	background: #DDDDDD; 
	padding: 0 10px;  
} 
.thrColElsHdr #header h1 {
	margin: 0; 
	padding: 10px 0; 
}

.thrColElsHdr #sidebar1 {
	float: left; 
	width: 11em; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	background: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 15px 0; /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div */
}
.thrColElsHdr #sidebar2 {
	float: right; 
	width: 11em; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
	background: #EBEBEB; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
	padding: 15px 0; /* top and bottom padding create visual space within this div */
}
.thrColElsHdr #sidebar1 h3, .thrColElsHdr #sidebar1 p, .thrColElsHdr #sidebar2 p, .thrColElsHdr #sidebar2 h3 {
	margin-left: 10px; /* the left and right margin should be given to every element that will be placed in the side columns */
	margin-right: 10px;
}

.thrColElsHdr #mainContent {
 	margin: 0 12em 0 12em; /* the right margin can be given in ems or pixels. It creates the space down the right side of the page. */
} 
.thrColElsHdr #footer { 
	padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */
	background:#DDDDDD;
} 
.thrColElsHdr #footer p {
	margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
	padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
}


.fltrt {
	float: right;
	margin-left: 8px;
}
.fltlft {
	float: left;
	margin-right: 8px;
}
.clearfloat { 
	clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
}
--> 
</style><!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css"> 
/* place css fixes for all versions of IE in this conditional comment */
.thrColElsHdr #sidebar1, .thrColElsHdr #sidebar2 { padding-top: 30px; }
.thrColElsHdr #mainContent { zoom: 1; padding-top: 15px; }
/* the above proprietary zoom property gives IE the hasLayout it needs to avoid several bugs */
</style>
<![endif]--></head>

<body class="thrColElsHdr">

<div id="container">
  <div id="header">
    <h1>Header</h1>
  <!-- end #header --></div>
  <div id="sidebar1">
    <p>Links</p>
    <p> </p>
  </div>
  <div id="sidebar2">Picture</div>
  <div id="mainContent">
    <h1> Main Content </h1>
    <p>
      <!-- end #mainContent -->
    </p>
</div>
	<!-- This clearing element should immediately follow the #mainContent div in order to force the #container div to contain all child floats --><br class="clearfloat" />
   <div id="footer">
    <p>Footer</p>
  <!-- end #footer --></div>
<!-- end #container --></div>
</body>
</html>

If you're interested in messing with it, here's the code. It's a template from dreamweaver.

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Developing a webpage is a simple task (the design the tough part), but developing it in to a complete site is a lot more difficult.

CMS software will let you throw up and quick site and will allow you to manage it easily.

You could use a package such as Joomla! etc, but the time spent in tailoring it to your needs would probably be better spent learning css :)

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