BASIC homepage that I coded

[50Cent]

Hehe I have no money for Dreamweaver and I'm pretty sure Lexic isn't going to use this as his homepage. Also I know I need to learn CSS It's just hard for me to learn stuff without someone right beside me teaching me. That's how I learn.

You can learn it on your own look up on w3schools. I learned mine there. And the homepage you made is very basics.

 

[Justin]

You guys don't need dreamweaver or fancy coding programs to make beautiful designs. I personally use dreamweaver because it writes half the code for me and allows for live preview and others, but you can do exactly the same thing if you know the code.

 

[50Cent]

You guys don't need dreamweaver or fancy coding programs to make beautiful designs. I personally use dreamweaver because it writes half the code for me and allows for live preview and others, but you can do exactly the same thing if you know the code.

Add on from THT post, you can also use notepad++ and save as a .html doc and preview it in Firefox. If you need to edit, return to notepad++ and edit it.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

Errr.. I think it's a little too basic, and thus looks bad. I mean, changing from the default Times New Roman would be the first step. Then learn CSS. And format into tables/divs.

Also never deal with raw html, get DreamWeaver or something.

Wow suggesting dreamweaver over raw html is like suggesting a sandwich over a full course meal..

Dreamweaver has very sloppy coding,does not meet standards,and it is a wysiwyg. Any professional would laugh at you for using DW.

I would get notepad++ though. Its color system for things helps alot.

 

[Jonathan]

NBK, read the whole thread - I use DW for reasons stated here: http://webdesignernotebook.com/tools/in ... s-defense/

 

[Creativebot]

Bro.....your HTML is not bad, but you need to style that bad boy. It is hurting my eyes. If you ever need helping with coding let me know.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

NBK, read the whole thread - I use DW for reasons stated here: http://webdesignernotebook.com/tools/in ... s-defense/

I have read the whole thread. DW is just not something you should use. It is better to start off with raw html so you do not have to deal with the horror that is DW.

 

[Jonathan]

Ah ok. Well we're all entitled to our opinions. 🙂

I like DW for some functions

 

[Cosmic]

I hate dreamweaver soooo much. I downloaded the trial just to see if it was any good and I just couldn't stand to use it.

 

[death180]

To start my post I will assist in this DW argument, then I will help the original poster with feedback.


Dreamweaver is good for reasons like a live preview and the WYSIWYG feature, and also the colored coding. But the things I don't like about it is that when you use the WYSIWYG you will always end up with sloppy and unneeded code. A lot of it. Also when typing in codes it always fills in the ending tags and stuff which really annoys me because I type fast as it is and I just like to breeze through it and not worry about having to go back and delete a closing tag because it got typed twice.

Now, I use Notepad++ for the color coding, that's pretty much it. It starts up fast, MUCH faster than DW. It always runs fast, which is an improvement over DW. And it doesn't auto fill the code.


Now for feedback. What you did is very simple and it is a nice job for simple coding. The next thing you will want to do is start changing colors and such, then as you get more confortable with CSS then you can work on adding images and such to it. But for now, it is a good start.