Web Design

[El Spurioso]

Howdo.

Here's the skinny - please refrain from laughter at the technostupidity I'm about to demonstrate.

In a moment of boredom t'other day I decided to build myself a simple little website.  I'd already registered a domain-name yonks ago, and have been half-planning to do something like this for ages.  I don't have the hottest software, but then I really only want/need a very functional sort of website: forget the bells and whistles.

I promptly put a site together - 12 pages, pretty bland stuff - and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it all was.  After I'd figured out the whole FTP thing (this took a lot of patient explaining by a pal), I uploaded my site and prepared to bask in glory.

I'm skipping forwards a few hours now, to the moment when it slowly dawned on me that the software I'd been using - despite being full of "publish to web" type options - was in fact not a web design programme at all, but a DTP package.  Foolishness, thy name is MS Publisher.

I've since got my hands on a copy of MS Frontpage.

"No worries", I told myself - "this'll be a doddle."  I had all the content worked out, a nice simple little design all set up - surely it was just a matter of cutting and pasting from one MS application to another?

Reality bites very slowly.

So.  My appeal to those of you who know more than me about technstuff (all of you) is this:  Is there an easy way to shunt content from a .pub file into a MS Frontpage html?  Or is anyone so freakishly quick and slick at using a web-buildy stuff that they could effortlessly transfer one set of words, pictures, and dividing lines into another format without breaking a sweat?

As I say, all the content is written-up and etc.  I just need someone to help me... y'know... put it all together.

Advice/volunteers/fairy godmothers?

I can offer beer, Gutsvilles, acknowledgment-page textual handjobbery and Maximum Kudos.

[Mike Carroll]

Mr Spurrier: Get in touch and I'll see what I can do...

I've created lots of websites for lots of people, but I do them all by hand so I'm not familiar with any of the standard website-building packages.

Link: http://www.turmoilcolour.com" target="_blank">Here's a sample of my work...

[Mike Carroll]

Link: http://www.quantumprophecy.com" target="_blank">And here's another one...

[Noisybast]

Yep. Same here. I used to favour Dreamweaver, but I've converted. Notepad all the way!

Link: http://www.mattnicholson.co.uk" target="_blank">My gaff

[pauljholden]

Si, give it up dude - it's not what you want to do. Get yourself a http://www.wordpress.com'>wordpress website, were you can (but don't have to) create a blog. You can also create static web pages. Upload images, etc. Then, if you're mad keen - find someone who will do something fancy with the look of it (it isn't that difficult to customise something yourself).

Point your domain name to it (or just create a simple redirect from your website) and bob's your uncle.

- pj