What are the most popular Home Page Builders?

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65rosessamurai

Guest
As part of my new job, I have been assigned the task to study Adobe Frame Maker, and will soon have to be familiarized with Adobe InDesign as well. As I was going through the technical aspect of the software, it indicated an ease of making web pages. Although I'm sure it will not have any moving pictures, and such like that, it came to me about if I were to get into building my own web page, what software, or what methods would I use to do so. Anyone who either does web publishing, or has been doing their own home page (I know Julie will be one helpful source), their information would be helpful. Right now, I intend to make the home page (if I am truly serious about doing it) in English, so would have to spend the extra resources to get the software in English so I can use it, and so it would be all in an English format.
Just last Sunday, I finally ordered directly from Adobe of Japan, the software I wanted for DVD design, and was able to get the English version. So, anyone who has been using Adobe, would make it a plus for me if Adobe's software is just as good as the rest (maybe my wife will use the Mac version for her computer!).
Another question is what kind of maintenance is really necessary for the home page, I'm hoping it's not really a daily, or even weekly thing to keep up on, once it's been started. (I'm afraid I may not have the extra time to keep it maintained)
Anyway, any and all comments are welcome.
 
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65rosessamurai

Guest
As part of my new job, I have been assigned the task to study Adobe Frame Maker, and will soon have to be familiarized with Adobe InDesign as well. As I was going through the technical aspect of the software, it indicated an ease of making web pages. Although I'm sure it will not have any moving pictures, and such like that, it came to me about if I were to get into building my own web page, what software, or what methods would I use to do so. Anyone who either does web publishing, or has been doing their own home page (I know Julie will be one helpful source), their information would be helpful. Right now, I intend to make the home page (if I am truly serious about doing it) in English, so would have to spend the extra resources to get the software in English so I can use it, and so it would be all in an English format.
Just last Sunday, I finally ordered directly from Adobe of Japan, the software I wanted for DVD design, and was able to get the English version. So, anyone who has been using Adobe, would make it a plus for me if Adobe's software is just as good as the rest (maybe my wife will use the Mac version for her computer!).
Another question is what kind of maintenance is really necessary for the home page, I'm hoping it's not really a daily, or even weekly thing to keep up on, once it's been started. (I'm afraid I may not have the extra time to keep it maintained)
Anyway, any and all comments are welcome.
 
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Mockingbird

New member
I reccomend going to Amazon.com and looking through the comments people leave there. Whenever I buy anything anymore, i always go to Amazon.com first, look up whatever product it is, and see what people are saying about the different kinds.
 
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Mockingbird

New member
I reccomend going to Amazon.com and looking through the comments people leave there. Whenever I buy anything anymore, i always go to Amazon.com first, look up whatever product it is, and see what people are saying about the different kinds.
 
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65rosessamurai

Guest
Thanks for the advice. I tried it once, with little result to the comments (Just stars). Depending on the software, I may be getting it from Amazon.co.jp!! Because my wife is so worried about credit card fraud on the internet, etc. she insists on the products being shipped C.O.D. or doing a bank fund transfer. I may stick with Adobe (i can probably get that shipped C.O.D. from the Adobe.Japan home page), but I'm keeping my options open, still.
 
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65rosessamurai

Guest
Thanks for the advice. I tried it once, with little result to the comments (Just stars). Depending on the software, I may be getting it from Amazon.co.jp!! Because my wife is so worried about credit card fraud on the internet, etc. she insists on the products being shipped C.O.D. or doing a bank fund transfer. I may stick with Adobe (i can probably get that shipped C.O.D. from the Adobe.Japan home page), but I'm keeping my options open, still.
 
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julie

New member
There you are Jared!!!


Fred, I use yahoo's site builder which is FREE to download but in order to publish it to a website you have to pay for a web domain (I pay $12 a month to keep my site running). You can get a free one on yahoo but then the yahoo site builder doesn't work. But I haven't ever tried out anything else...
 
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julie

New member
There you are Jared!!!


Fred, I use yahoo's site builder which is FREE to download but in order to publish it to a website you have to pay for a web domain (I pay $12 a month to keep my site running). You can get a free one on yahoo but then the yahoo site builder doesn't work. But I haven't ever tried out anything else...
 
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IG

Guest
Honestly for a personal homepage there are free programs available, such as N|vu which will be sufficient for most users. If you want to pay for a professional-grade web authoring tool Macromedia's DreamWeaver is the one I've heard the best about, but Adobe might also have one available, it's been a while since I looked at their product lineup.

As for hosting, there are plenty of places that offer free web space. Most of them have ads and bandwidth limits and such, but paying $10/month or so will get you a nice, ad-free space. The best solution is to see if your ISP offers some web space; most offer at least a few megs for personal pages.

As far as maintenence is concerned, it's up to you. If you have time to keep it updated with new info, new links, and improved content then that's up to you, but otherwise you won't have to think about it at all, it will just continue to be there and people will continue to visit it. Note that people tend to visit it more if you do actually update it.

This is Candice's boyfriend, so don't expect her to know much about this, but I hope I've helped a bit.
 
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IG

Guest
Honestly for a personal homepage there are free programs available, such as N|vu which will be sufficient for most users. If you want to pay for a professional-grade web authoring tool Macromedia's DreamWeaver is the one I've heard the best about, but Adobe might also have one available, it's been a while since I looked at their product lineup.

As for hosting, there are plenty of places that offer free web space. Most of them have ads and bandwidth limits and such, but paying $10/month or so will get you a nice, ad-free space. The best solution is to see if your ISP offers some web space; most offer at least a few megs for personal pages.

As far as maintenence is concerned, it's up to you. If you have time to keep it updated with new info, new links, and improved content then that's up to you, but otherwise you won't have to think about it at all, it will just continue to be there and people will continue to visit it. Note that people tend to visit it more if you do actually update it.

This is Candice's boyfriend, so don't expect her to know much about this, but I hope I've helped a bit.
 
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