Possible to build OK website without ANY coding knowledge?

[IamDavid]

Kinda got in over my head at work lately. I put together a simple one page site to help show something I was working on, completely unrelated to anything technology based. Apparently everyone was impressed and word spread and before I knew it I was in charge of making a REAL site. Nothing special at all, but anything is above my knowledge.

Any suggestions?

BTW: I used a simple WYSIWYG editor on a Linux machine I had at home.

 

[Cogman]

ABORT!!!

Seriously, You aren't an IT guy/network admin/web designer. Unless that is what you want to do with your career I would suggest you quickly move this over to someone else as you will be the one in charge of running the web page, making sure everything works correctly, and maintenance. Do you really want that responsibility?

If you like the attention and could see yourself going that way, then that is a different question. HTML is easy enough to pick up, as is CSS. But like I said, you better learn how to do this right or it has the potential to haunt you for a long time.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Cogman
ABORT!!!

Seriously, You aren't an IT guy/network admin/web designer. Unless that is what you want to do with your career I would suggest you quickly move this over to someone else as you will be the one in charge of running the web page, making sure everything works correctly, and maintenance. Do you really want that responsibility?

If you like the attention and could see yourself going that way, then that is a different question. HTML is easy enough to pick up, as is CSS. But like I said, you better learn how to do this right or it has the potential to haunt you for a long time.

I agree with you 100%... Just can't do that though. I have no desire to be a web design guru or anything of the sort.

After posting my question I downloaded a trial version of Adobe's Dreamweaver. Program seems simple enough and so far I have a pretty need layout going. Much better than the editor i used on my Linux box.

When I said I need to build a web site, I meant an internal page that can link to other internal pages. Basically just a simple cover page that will link to pages for reference. Hopefully the ability to use a search option of the cover page instead of a bunch of links.

 

[Billb2]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Basically just a simple cover page that will link to pages for reference.

..and slowly, the spider spun it's web.

Welcome to IT!

 

[Markbnj]

BTW: I used a simple WYSIWYG editor on a Linux machine I had at home.

That's enough to tell me that you can probably do this if you want to. If the site is static then you can accomplish pretty much whatever you need to using a simple editor and an ftp client. If you need to generate pages from data, then that's a different story. You might think about a packaged CMS/Blog system like Wordpress or Drupal. You can do a lot of pretty specialized stuff with plugins and not have to know any coding at all.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: Billb2

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Basically just a simple cover page that will link to pages for reference.

..and slowly, the spider spun it's web.

Welcome to IT!

That's scary. This is kinda neat though. It's amazing what tools are available.