Time to make a website - which product?

[trackdemon]

www.trackdemon.co.uk has been sitting as a one page intro for long enough, I want to make a nice clean site which will display my work; nothing overly complex just clean simple and easy to navigate. So question to you web designers - which package would be best for me to learn? (I work in IT but know nothing about web design)

[JamieBeeston]

Design is less about the package and more about the creative process..

The tools are nowhere near as important as the vision (and the coding skill)

Dreamweaver is a good start tho.

J

[skinnyboy]

you know of Easton Chang's work here in Australia?

Check his site out for inspiration mate. hes a great guy and down to earth too, trying to get him to do a shoot of my car when its finally done!

clicky for website

[Phil Hopkins]

I've always used Dreamweaver too, it's very user friendly and has a good in built code editor.

[trackdemon]

skinnyboy said:

you know of Easton Chang's work here in Australia?

Check his site out for inspiration mate. hes a great guy and down to earth too, trying to get him to do a shoot of my car when its finally done!

clicky for website

Yup, I'm well aware of Eastons stuff through some other forums I visit. I like his site, but for me its just a little too complicated. Sounds like Dreamweaver is what I need!

[Ian_H]

Why not use something like Gallery http://gallery.menalto.com/ if it's a photo site your after, you'll need a webhost who supports php, mysql etc but it's an excellent open source programme and highly customizable. I use it for my site.

[JamieBeeston]

Ian_H said:

Why not use something like Gallery http://gallery.menalto.com/ if it's a photo site your after, you'll need a webhost who supports php, mysql etc but it's an excellent open source programme and highly customizable. I use it for my site.

Like the one which sponsors this forum and provides Gallery as a Quick Install option on the VDS Pro

Gallery can be skinned to look very sexy, with great integration into sites possible with a little work.

Check out www.trailblasters.co.uk/photos.php

[Plotloss]

TopStyle Pro 3

[_dobbo_]

I'm a huge fan of this:

www.imagevuex.com/

example of the gallery:

www.imagevuex.com/imagevue/


But if you hate flash then don't look!

Edited by _dobbo_ on Tuesday 25th July 12:59

[bga]

_dobbo_ said:

I'm a huge fan of this:

www.imagevuex.com/

example of the gallery:

www.imagevuex.com/imagevue/


But if you hate flash then don't look!

Edited by _dobbo_ on Tuesday 25th July 12:59

I was looking at imagevuex the other day, looks very slick!