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[Ibot]

hi i am going to be starting a website. i have used postnuke and ms frontpage 2003. They have worked great.
The new website is a community one were the aim is to help fund projects that are enviromentally friendly etc.
I want to know what would be a simple, secure way to use to make the site. Like what would i make it with etc, postnuke again etc. Your ideas would be great!

[SkiBachelor]

I have no experience with either of the programs that you have listed. However, I would suggest doing everything in PHP/MySQL if you want to develop a dynamic website.

[Lift Kid]

Ibot, on Apr 5 2008, 09:42 PM, said:

hi i am going to be starting a website. i have used postnuke and ms frontpage 2003. They have worked great.
The new website is a community one were the aim is to help fund projects that are enviromentally friendly etc.
I want to know what would be a simple, secure way to use to make the site. Like what would i make it with etc, postnuke again etc. Your ideas would be great!

For my site, Chairliftinfo.com, I use DreamWeaver instead of Postnuke and Frontpage. DreamWeaver is far more advanced than Frontpage, which I have used. However, DreamWeaver can have a small learning curve to a beginning web designer/webmaster. I have never used Postnuke, so I have no opinions about it! DreamWeaver does well with templates. I have an example template page for my site setup, which I may be using in the future. Link: http://chairliftinfo...w_site/home.htm

[WBSKI]

Definitely go with Dreamweaver and PHP/MySQL. Frontpage is pretty passé. Dreamweaver CS3 is fantastic, of course, it doesn't do everything, but all the basic dynamic website it does without any coding at all. Only when you get more involved, as I did with Skiingbc.info V4, do you have to push past the boundaries and learn some PHP/MYSQL. As for security, it really depends on how you set stuff up. The standard Dreamweaver PHP/MYSQL login/user account stuff is pretty primitive, no hashing or anything of the passwords which makes them pretty vulnerable to hackers. This can be easily avoided however.

What are you planning to make for a website? If you aren't doing anything dynamic at all, this little free application (www.nvu.com) would suit you perfectly. For more advanced stuff, go with dreamweaver for sure. I am pretty competent with basic PHP now so if you have any questions, ask me, I can probably answer them. I was in the same position that you are now last year.

[SkiBachelor]

You might also like to check out the web application called Sprout.

http://sproutbuilder...gAVsWRmAOkBj0Ej

[skierdude9450]

Lift Kid, on Apr 5 2008, 08:52 PM, said:

http://chairliftinfo...w_site/home.htm

Oooooo I like it.

[Lift Kid]

skierdude9450, on Apr 6 2008, 11:04 AM, said:

Oooooo I like it.

If anyone likes it, go here: http://www.skiingbc....php?topic=183.0

[WBSKI]

Ski Bachelor's Sprout looks good for a smaller website, but if you are doing something big, with a lot of database, Sprout doesn't look like it would be sufficient. I guess we need to know what your website intentions are. I might be wrong, but after looking at some recently made Sprouts, they are all just mini flash apps: http://seed.sproutbu...gB1mvtkAHyuebty
Its weird because when you first visit the website, it looks like a full feature website building program.

This post has been edited by WBSKI: 06 April 2008 - 06:23 PM