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who knows how to make a really good webpage?

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RayEarth

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do you know how to make a professional webpage? what programs do you use & how long did it take for you to make your webpage? what's the link to your website so i can see how professional it looks. I want to make a good webpage but don't really know how, I have programs such as dreamweaver 4, flash 5, adobe photoshop 6.02, paintshop pro 7.02 & fireworks 4.0 that I borrow from others, but I don't have a clue to using any of these programs, what are do websites that teach you how to make a professional site?
 
Use Notepad. 😛
Try getting the book "Webmaster Answers", it's about $25 but worth it's weight in gold. Any ?'s just PM me. =)
Edit:
I would recommend FrontPage as well. Very user-friendly and easy to use.
 
You have all the tools, now get to work! Forget learning HTML, hardcoding it in notepad is a time waster. Just do everything in a WYSIWYG and edit the code afterwards.

What you have to do is just DO something! Just get started, and no matter how sh1tty it looks, keep going. You'll never be satisfied, so you might as well start now and learn more on the way. I would take a look at some other websites and take notes on what you like and don't like, what can be done with certain coding and what can't be done. You'll then be able to 'incorporate' (or steal) certain coding to get what you want. View source and see how a page works.

And by the way, Flash stuff is awesome, might not hurt to learn that and ditch regular websites altogether since that is what I see most people doing. Trying to jump aboard the Flash wagon now...
 
i would go with frontpage. it has a few tutorials to teach you how to make a website with it and even before looking at the tutorials i could make a good website easily. And if you get stuck, it has a huge help database.
 
... and remember, CONTENT is everything! Sure your page must look nice, but if you don't have any quality content to offer, people won't return to your site.
 
How do you take HTML code that you write in notepad and implment it into a webpage?

I am trying to take a webpage I have saved, and change a few items on it to customize it for my own needs.(Plagerism? nahhhh😉 ) I am able to change the code, but when I save it, I get a document that I don't know how to view as a webpage.

Thans
 
All the HTML in the world won't make your site look good if you suck at graphic design. Ugly pictures and graphics can't be compensated for by any fancy HTML tricks.

Even if you use Dreamweaver or FrontPage to do most of the work (which is what I recommend - everyone who says "use notepad" has either never done nested tables or else likes to abuse themselves), you still need to know HTML to make it "special".

edit: xraymongrel you should go to the library and get a book about HTML. In the meantime, save your file as plain text (that's what notepad does) and with the .htm extension. The home page should be named either index.htm or default.htm depending on how your web host is set up. Or open the file locally using Internet Explorer or Netscape to see what it looks like.
 
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