I want to make a website that is pretty much no images (incorporated in the design, anyway) but still isn't an eyesore. I want it to load fast on a 56k... not ridiculously, but... I just want to make pretty simple web designs that look pretty... decent. hehe.

Suggestions?


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Learn HTML and do it yourself in Notepad.

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check out the freeware section of http://www.webattack.com there are some good WYSIWYG editors there.

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1337Yectiwan
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I use a free one called HTML-Kit which is basically a glorified text editor. I have always hated WYSIWYG editors with a passion personally. I just like dealing with the code itself....once you get used to it you can visualise it easily.

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Corrupting the kiddies since '97

I'm a code and WYSIWYG kinda guy. I use Dreamweaver MX

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1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
10 of 14

Coincidentally... I've always been for websites with little graphics but good use of HTML for eyecandy.

http://mzzt.atronox.com/stats/quotes.php

One image total, and it's the Google logo for the search bar at the very bottom.

I think this is what you mean. I used a blend of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. For your site, it would be worth your while to learn HTML and CSS, and maybe a little JavaScript on the side if you want your page to have some more dynamic content. Only learn PHP if you want to get serious about dynamic content.

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Raw text > WYSIWYG

Im writing my site in Perl with a mysql backend. You cant do this stuff with a WYSIWYG editor. And even if I could, I wouldnt. Ive said it before, I dont like using someone's code, or letting a program write it for me. If I didnt write it, it isnt mine.

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Here's my flashy website I made a few days ago: www.tednation.tk If you think that's what you want I can give you the secret weapon I used to make it... *hides in a dark alley*

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I made my site using nothing but notepad:

http://www.rit.edu/~bjj4494/

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I used crimson editor to make mine:

http://www.ud.2ya.com

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So did I:
http://www.goatsgotohell.com/~simbachu

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-Robert Jastrow

Get an enhanced text-editor that will autofill, highlight tags and do syntax checks and stuff like that. Much easier than just notepad.

Ah, but Dreamweaver MX does use your code. You rewrite the library files to use your own style of html/xhtml. Recently I made some changes to make whatever it does XHTML 1.1 compliant.

Try Homesite 1.2.

I've been using this for years, and it is the best damn freeware HTML editor that I have ever used.

I have it hosted on my server:

http://www.pwizard.com/files/hs12.zip

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OSC was created with Notepad and Dreamweaver.

http://www.oscempire.net

and I've said it once, and I'll say it again, the UD site is the most beautiful site ever created.

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1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
10 of 14

I think HotDog editor will do both for you.

I wrote this site in EditPlus 2.
www.360viewonline.com
It's dead now so some of the links will give you an error. I stopped developing it a long time ago.

I would also like to suggest, from my experience I have found that you have much more control over your site with a text editor than with WYSIWYG.

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Editplus 2 >>> *
I use it for everything. Literally from html/css to writing essays [which when i'm done i can dump into abiword to format and print. though sometimes i've turned in essays i did with html too..]

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