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I need to make a website where people can download mp3s for work. I don't need any animation and I'm quite good at the design part.

 

Is there a simple program for making a basic website that anyone can recommend?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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If you're only after a simple web site then you don't need any software at all. Just create a dead boring list with all your tunes, such as:

 

<html>
<head>
<title>Downloadable MP3's</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="MP3, free, download">
</head>
<body>
<h1>MP3's Available</h1>
<a href="mp3/song1.mp3">Song 1</a><br />
<a href="mp3/song2.mp3">Song 2</a>
</body>
</html>

 

Not pretty but gets the job done without the need for splashing out cash.

 

You could even go one further and put a list of all your MP3's in something like an Access db, then create an ASP page that queries the db and lists the results.

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If you're only after a simple web site then you don't need any software at all.  Just create a dead boring list with all your tunes, such as:

 

<html>
<head>
<title>Downloadable MP3's</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="MP3, free, download">
</head>
<body>
<h1>MP3's Available</h1>
<a href="mp3/song1.mp3">Song 1</a><br />
<a href="mp3/song2.mp3">Song 2</a>
</body>
</html>

 

Not pretty but gets the job done without the need for splashing out cash.

 

You could even go one further and put a list of all your MP3's in something like an Access db, then create an ASP page that queries the db and lists the results.

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:)

 

 

Thanks, but I understood about 4% of your post! :)

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

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Thanks Sheargol. :)

 

Ok, so photoshop is for doctoring photos and images?

 

As for Fireworks and GoLive..... I'll look them up later but if you've got a quick sentence to what they do I'd appreciate it. :)

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

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Thanks Sheargol. :)

 

Ok, so photoshop is for doctoring photos and images?

 

As for Fireworks and GoLive..... I'll look them up later but if you've got a quick sentence to what they do I'd appreciate it. :)

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GoLive is your HTML editting software, a bit like Macromedia Dreamweaver. Oh, and by the way, it's Macromedia Fireworks, not Adobe :yes

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GoLive is your HTML editting software, a bit like Macromedia Dreamweaver. Oh, and by the way, it's Macromedia Fireworks, not Adobe  :)

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Cheers. Unfortunately I don't know about html.

 

Is there something that has maybe templates where you can change the fonts etc and add to without starting from scratch?

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Dreamweaver MX does all the coding for you, although it's a very expensive solution if you're not going to use it to it's full potential.

 

For a quick and dirty html page why don't you just use Microsoft Word and save the document in html format?

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

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Nor can you go wrong with notepad or Textpad! :)

 

*hate these 'website creation apps'*

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

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Nor can you go wrong with notepad or Textpad! :)

 

*hate these 'website creation apps'*

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I'm yet to see one of your sites written purely by yourself. Should we compare my GoLive websites with your "from scratch" ones? :)

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

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Nor can you go wrong with notepad or Textpad! :)

 

*hate these 'website creation apps'*

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I'm yet to see one of your sites written purely by yourself. Should we compare my GoLive websites with your "from scratch" ones? :)

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The commerical site I wrote was for a company who, 6 months ago, were taken over by another organisation who already had their own site.

 

Because of that, my site no longer exists (apart from on a CD-ROM).

 

BTW, I don't remember saying that "from scratch" sites were better than "GoLive" ones, I just said that notepad and Textpad can also get the job done and that personally, I prefer to use a text editor...

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

44426[/snapback]

 

Nor can you go wrong with notepad or Textpad! :icon_lol:

 

*hate these 'website creation apps'*

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I'm yet to see one of your sites written purely by yourself. Should we compare my GoLive websites with your "from scratch" ones? :razz:

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The commerical site I wrote was for a company who, 6 months ago, were taken over by another organisation who already had their own site.

 

Because of that, my site no longer exists (apart from on a CD-ROM).

 

BTW, I don't remember saying that "from scratch" sites were better than "GoLive" ones, I just said that notepad and Textpad can also get the job done and that personally, I prefer to use a text editor...

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Right, I've got a challenge for you then Mr HTML ;)

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Is there something that has maybe templates where you can change the fonts etc and add to without starting from scratch?

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FrontPage has themes and templates and stuff... so basically you click a few buttons and TA DA there's a webpage in front of you, with banners and backgrounds and buttons and what the hell. Then you just add your text. (You can also change all the background, buttons etc, they've provided you with if you want).

 

If you really DO want to cheat and have a little Mr Microsoft webpage, then that's an easy way to do it. :yes

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

44426[/snapback]

 

Nor can you go wrong with notepad or Textpad! :yes

 

*hate these 'website creation apps'*

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Same here. Notepad's the daddy.. which is why all my websites are simple/gash. :nufc:

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Is there something that has maybe templates where you can change the fonts etc and add to without starting from scratch?

44501[/snapback]

 

FrontPage has themes and templates and stuff... so basically you click a few buttons and TA DA there's a webpage in front of you, with banners and backgrounds and buttons and what the hell. Then you just add your text. (You can also change all the background, buttons etc, they've provided you with if you want).

 

If you really DO want to cheat and have a little Mr Microsoft webpage, then that's an easy way to do it. :blush:

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Thanks Lou :yes

 

I just found out today I already have FrontPage on my pooder anyway! :nufc:

 

I'll give it a crack.

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Thanks Lou  :blush:

 

I just found out today I already have FrontPage on my pooder anyway!  :)

 

I'll give it a crack.

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Aye, till you upload to it your webspace and find it doesnt work.

 

:nufc:

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:yes

 

Care to elaborate?!

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Aye, till you upload to it your webspace and find it doesnt work.

 

:nufc:

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:yes

 

Care to elaborate?!

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Certain features of Frontpage only work if your hosting company have included the Frontpage extensions on the server. Things such as Forms Processing (designing a forms fine but if you use the inbuilt processing stuff then you could have problems), hit counter, database stuff etc.

 

If its a straight-forward, heres me, heres what I do, look at the pretty pictures etc site then there shouldnt be any problems.

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If its a straight-forward, heres me, heres what I do, look at the pretty pictures etc site then there shouldnt be any problems.

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Yeah, that's all I want for now, but thanks for the tips. :yes:nufc:

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seen a web page you like and wanna modify it to your own liking? :)

 

just click up yonder on "view" then "source" of that web site , copy & paste & then just change pics,wording etc to your liking...easy peazy

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seen a web page you like and wanna modify it to your own liking? :lol:

 

just click up yonder on "view" then "source" of that web site , copy & paste & then just change pics,wording etc to your liking...easy peazy

 

pah I cant be arsed with such things.

 

WebCopier is the answer, put in the URL and get an entire copy of the full website within minutes.

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If you're quite good at the design part then get the following...

 

Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe GoLive!

 

Can't go wrong.

 

Why would anyone need photoshop and fireworks? Surely fireworks and dreamweaver is a better combination anyway.

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Notepad is for girls. Vi is the daddy.

 

Bit pointless unless you're using a character based UNIX environment (unless of course you like making work for yourself.... :lol:)

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