Website Design Question

[WatchYourStep 0]

To start let me give you a background so you know where I'm coming from.

I work a full time job M-F. I also coach Crew at the University of Kansas. I'm the Head Coach for the Club program. I'd like to get a website up and going to help get our name out and about.

Can anyone suggest a program to use (I can learn) to create a website? I'd want the website to contain our roster (click on the name and get a small bio), schedule, history of the team, pictures, results, etc. Nothing too hard. I'll be doing all the updating.

I was thinking of just relearning HTML and writing it like that but if anyone else has any suggestions I'm all ears.

Thanks

"You start off your skydiving career with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience up before your bag of luck runs out."

[LisaM 0]

I used to use Net Objects Fusion which was nice. Or you can use something like *cringe* Front Page.

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[Randy_H 0]

Okay, so you want something basic? You aren't going to be hooking into databases or anything like that? You could use Microsoft Frontpage OR if you already have Microsoft Word, Word has the ability to save your document as HTML. So you could design it in Word and just save it as a web document (HTML). If you want to add effects, you could always throw in some javascript to achieve it. Most of my creative web design that I do on the side is done with Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is pricey and the learning curve is pretty steep but the results are quite awesome. If you are going to be hooking into databases, I would suggest using PHP instead of ASP (which is pretty insecure IMO).

Hot Dog by Sausage Software is pretty easy to use and you can download a trial version from here

I don't know how far you want to get into this, but if you are constantly going to be updating team statistics, scores, biographies, then I would strongly recommend using mySQL as your database backend and hook into it with PHP 4. In the long run, updating items will be much easier for you.

If you need any help or have any questions, you can always PM me. Good Luck!

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[WatchYourStep 0]

Thanks Randy. I do have the Dreamweaver software but I haven't looked at it yet. In rowing I won't keep many stats per say. For instance if I clicked on Jeremy Struemph from the roster page the following would come up in another window:

A picture of me, my weight, height, hometown and short bio

The only other things I would track would be the results from races.

I may drop you a PM later when I get a chance.

"You start off your skydiving career with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience up before your bag of luck runs out."

[LisaM 0]

You are so much more in depth than me!

I use VS2005. Yummy!

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[Randy_H 0]

You're welcome, I'm glad I could help.

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[mailin 0]

< - Does not like VS2005. I actually took it off and re-installed '03 on my computer at work. '05 is too slow.

As far as webdesign - for what you're doing, just use front page its idiot proof.

Arianna Frances

[Randy_H 0]

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I use VS2005. Yummy!

Visual Studio 2005? Does it still include Visual Interdev? I had to use Visual Interdev for ASP when I was forced into enterprise design for IIS. I designed an SAP system for our company long before SAP even existed and gave up on proprietary MS products a long time ago. Now most of my html coding is done with, get this, notepad.exe, of all things! Except when I am coding in PHP. For PHP I am using Zend Studio. It has awesome debuging capabilities. Enough of this geek talk for now, OMG!

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[LisaM 0]

No, I don't think it does. I used UltraEdit for my ASP coding. No more ASP coding! I don't miss it!

Now I am running test scripts... I love to set them all to run at once and kick my feet back....

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[LisaM 0]

05 is slow on my husband's computer also. It is fine on both my work and my home computer though. And it is SOOOO much nicer than 03.

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[Randy_H 0]

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No more ASP coding! I don't miss it!

heheh, who does! It is basically a weakened version of VB that will only run on IIS which only a moron would use for a web server unless you want everybody and their brother to gain admin privledges on your server. Which is why we will ONLY use Apache. I knew of critical IIS exploits that existed for a few weeks before MS would even acknowledge they existed. And then you have to wait for them to release a critical patch, then a few days later a hotfix for the patch. Then a week later, a patch for the hotfix for the initial patch. What a joke!!

When exploits are found in Apache, they are usually fixed within the hour. Besides, Apache will run on any computer out there and PHP runs circles around ASP. MSSQL server? What a joke, the only benefit to using it was the ability to run stored procedures which are now implemented in the latest mySQL. Best of all, mySQL, Apache and PHP are F-R-E-E! Open source rocks!

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[LisaM 0]

My stuff is free for me!

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?

[Randy_H 0]

I know!! But 'FREE' doesn't necessarily mean legal! lol!

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[LisaM 0]

I am the same person. Just have more than one machine. No harm in that. We have volume licenses.

~ Lisa
~ Do you Rigminder?