To start a Web Site

[John H. Henderson]

I use a text editor.

[Julio Fernandez]

Peter Brown: Many thanks for the mention of Paul Schilliger's web site. Paul's site is an inspiration and not only because of its beautiful landscape photography. The presentation, writing, -in english and French and the textual content are admirable, the whole thing is truly one of the 'must see' things in the web. If adobe go Live can help produce such pages, it must be good. However, I did look at Go Live and perhaps I did not spend enough time on it but to me it seemed entirely un-intuitive and felt I would have to spend much more time with it to get going. With Microsoft FrontPage 2002 it was go right from the start, without need of the manual until much later. Though I am a beginner in FrontPage, I was able to do with it what I wanted right from the start. My question is, am I loosing something without Adobe go Live ot Dreamweaver. What makes those programs a must for a user? Could Paul's site not have been created in FrontPage?

[Paul Schilliger]

Julio, thanks again for your kind email sent privately and for your nice words a bout my site. I think, if you are working with Photoshop images and graphics, Adobe Golive does a great job. It wa sn't easy for me to master and I had to take a course to get the basics, but then it went all right with some hel p gotten on the way. I wanted to point some resources at Adobe Website where you can watch small step by step tutorial movies. Had I known about it, the course would have not been necessary. There is also a forum very useful when see king help. There are some great specialists there! I think, if you only want a small simple website, FrontPage m ight be all right. Otherwise, I would advise not to loose too much of your time and energy with it, but go straight fo r a pro solution. There is also the DreamWeaver option that some use, but I know nothing about it. Here are the link s. The second requires registering. Good luck!

http://www.adobe.com/web/tips/glvvtco/main.html

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ee6b31a

[Peter Brown]

Hi everyone,

Although I have sent this to you privately Julio, I thought others may also be interested in an answer to your question; >What makes those programs a must for a user? Could Paul's site not have been created in FrontPage?<

Paul's site may have been able to be created in Frontpage, but by using GoLive he was better able to integrate it with his Photoshop images. There is seamless integration between the Adobe programs and using tools called "Smart Objects" allows you to work with native applications, Photoshop, Illustrator and Livemotion, manipulating images and objects while they are updated "in real time" in GoLive. This makes creating and working on images very easy. The main reason though, for using a professional program like Dreamweaver or GoLive, is that they are both very good at site management. This is not a problem with small sites with just a few pages and with few links, but once the site grows it becomes important to have good site management. GoLive and Dreamweaver also make finding and fixing broken links easy. Using templates and page content which is used often and needs to be duplicated, is very easy with these programs and saves lots of time 'cutting & pasting". The good site management of these programs also allows you to easily update or change web site content.

If you are planning on your site growing or if you intend doing more web site design, I would recommend either GoLive or Dreamweaver. I have and use both but prefer GoLive which seems to fit with my graphic design skills better as it works just like a illustration layout program.

Good luck with your site.

Kind regards, Peter Brown