Hi everyone!
Hope you’re all doing well. Please excuse my naiveness in the webdesign realm, but it’s been so long since i made a website. Used to do it back in highschool for fun, for friends and myself.
Now i’m interested in making one again; it’ll be a personal one.
What’s hot in making webpagess nowadays?
What’s your favorite? User-friendly?
All suggestions (relevant or irrelevant) are appreciated. I thank you all so much in advance. 
Re: Webdesign tools
depends what exactly you want to do? Do you want flash on the site? are you going to update it quite often? then in that case use a cms.
there is plenty open source out there now, check: www.joomla.org
I personally have use: - Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
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Thanks alot Gizzy. I haven't really decided on the final design, right now just gathering info, etc.
:)
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Most of the web-hosting companies offer automated installs of the CMS packages with the php hosting plans. Once installed you can just use the proper templates to customize the site to fit your needs. This way you don't really need any of these website editing tools.
But if you definitely do need software I would second Gizz with Dreamweaver, even tho it costs a little.
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It costs nothing:smooth:
So…is HTML totally out now then? I remember those days when running html commands to make cheesy pages was considered the shiznit! :sigh:
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HTML is the basis, you do need some (or a lot) knowledge of HTML to be able to do the expert stuff on the sites.
you have relatives working at Adobe? :halo:
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I think its more rainbow related
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i do have these tools. (and apparently also know their usage)
so what i have to get from joomla then :konfused:
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can you put a "joomla" together then?
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i just know of hajamoola 
aik to subha say 4 ghantay lectures nay damag kha leya, uper say app pata nahi kia pooch rahay hoo 
gizzy bhai- ok i did download..but where are the applications? 
and i think if theres any exist (i mean application) they are not made for Mac users
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What exactly did u download? the Joomla distro? You need a webserver to use that and php and MySQL installed (there’s a package out there with all 3: http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php). Once you have that setup you need to get Joomla configured and that’s it.
PS: My “joomla” from post 10 was referring to sentence in urdu 
PS2: I just realized you said Mac. The above link won’t work on OSX. You’d have to install all components separately on there.
PS3: Just found the package for OSX: http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html 
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you can give it a try, since you told me you were looking to set up something.
Follow Tofi’s instructions above.
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Zobia, you will need LAMP or WAMP in order to get JOOMLA to work.
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So do you then use different utilities to create different aspects and then just put them together as a website?
Isn't there an All-in-one solution available? Just curious...
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JOomla is a CMS (Content Mangement System), it allows you to publish, organize and present your data along with various tools, modules, components and plugins to enhance website visitor's experience as well as add functionality to the content.
You will need either LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) or WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP) in order to run Joomla and take advantage of its features. I as well as many other users prefer using it on a linux server.
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I haven’t touched linux ever since i’ve used a PC
Very curious to its workings though…might try it eventually
Thanks for the clarity JL
Re: Webdesign tools
JOomla is a CMS (Content Mangement System), it allows you to publish, organize and present your data along with various tools, modules, components and plugins to enhance website visitor's experience as well as add functionality to the content.
You will need either LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) or WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP) in order to run Joomla and take advantage of its features. I as well as many other users prefer using it on a linux server.
thank you. that was what i wanted to know!
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No Problem. If you need any help with it, let me know.
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hey man don't be so confused
u can still use HTML to make a great website
if u learn CSS(cascading style sheets) and a bit of JavaScript
u can make well organized and well managed web pages
dont waste ur time in CMS etc. cause u wana make a site for ur personal use not a professional one for ur business. dont bother much about lamp or wamp. stick to html, css and java script.
u can read some tutorials at www . w3schools.com/default.asp
dream weaver is still best option and u can manage everything in it eg html css javascript, tell me if u want a free cracked edition
