Posted on 03/27/2014 8:57:00 AM PDT by George from New England
I have found myself losing business left and right because of the evolution of the internet.
I am looking for a simple program that will import an existing webpage, allow the user to edit and change components and then publish the modified page back to the web. I am willing to pay for something that is proven and can be trusted.
All the different platforms and their different video and audio codecs are driving me out of business. I constantly get contact emails saying they cannot see my video and yet it works for me in Chrome and Firefox.
I welcome a freeper that is a website programmer to contact me by freeper email.
Thanks for listening.
http://www.adobe.com/products/contribute.html
True WYSIWYG web authoring
Enable content authors to see the results of their edits and additions instantly with enhanced CSS rendering, without writing code or knowing HTML. Contribute immediately updates edits to XML content and Spry widgets.
I know. It was a bad experience for me. I went out of my way to teach myself how to make a slide show with Vectorian Giotto amd after it was completed I uploaded the site on a family members Ipad and it was blank space where the show should have been. Lol
godaddy.com....great reliable Inexpensive hosting
the left wants you to boycott them...
http://breakupwithgodaddy.com/
If you find a good one, you might want to send it on to Kathleen Sebelius.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with godaddy
sorry to hear that.
Administration stuff for hosting?
very unstable sites, email outages, connection problems.
I also use bluehost. Have some problems but the pain of changing everything keeps me there.
Thanks.
“It’s best to write the code yourself.”
Been doing that since 1996. Doesn’t work anymore. I have to know how and when to redirect to separate pages for different platforms. This changes from year to year now, how does one keep track. I’m from the school that if it isn’t broken, then leave it alone. But today, the web is designed to break compatibility left and right. What’s one to do but use a program designed to stay current and migrate pages as the web platforms change. Video/audio codec changes are killing me.
btw: I hate Adobe and have avoid them for years. Have you ever used Sea Monkey and Composer ?
“SeaMonkey’s powerful yet simple HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.”
Can I accomplish anything there?
Thanks.
Yeah I know what you mean, it’s a huge pain in butt. I have no idea why they didn’t make these mobile devices flash compatible. I guess cause Steve Jobs couldn’t extract 10 billion or so from Adobe.
Someone told me what they have now is a “substitute flash” for mobile, they forget the name as well, but what it is, is a program like Flash but you pretty much have to learn how to use it as an entirely new program, but it runs the same as Flash. For example say you want to put a movie or program animation in this program you have to go through all this crap to learn how to use it and they charge a ton for the program and $3000 for lessons. Real niiiice. That’s why they made Flash incompatible: $$$$$$ I made an animation a few weeks ago for a guy who wanted it to work on mobile so what I did is convert it to .Gif animation which works on mobile but of course there is no sound to go with it unless you play a separate sound file while its playing which is fun because there is no way in hell the sound will match up with the animation
Tell me about it, I registered a domain name with them a few months ago and ONE day later I was getting emails from India asking me to let them do my website and every other kind of junk mail. Never again.
It will import the HTML for a webpage and you can then edit it...but you should know at least some very basic HTML. The more the better. It does come with a large variety of canned macros so you can pop things in like images and links, etc. without knowing how to format those in HTML. It can also show you what the page looks like within it's own browser so you can switch back and forth between the webpage and the HTML. That makes it easier to find mistakes before uploading your page to your server for publishing.
Have a look for it on Google. It might work for you. I've heard Coffee Cup works well also.
The best solution is WordPress.
You can do it yourself. It’s easy.
It runs on free software:
- Apache server
- PHP
- mySql database
There are numerous themes you can buy or create or modify. You want to change, just swap the theme and you don’t have to do your site over.
It is a “CMS” (Content Management System). So just like editing a document in MS Word, you can edit your Wordpress site yourself and publish it with a click.
IT guys will try to sell you on Drupal, Joomla or others - but take the word of Google Guru, Matt Cutts - he said, “Google likes Wordpress”.
Enough said. The guy in charge of Google SEO tells you to use Wordpress. IT guys hate it cuz you don’t need them usually.
You want some new functionality? Get a plugin. Boom it works.
You want people to be able to like it or comment with Facebook? Just add a ‘plugin’.
Want to hide your email from spambots? Add the Hive Enkoder plugin. Done.
Want a nice contact form? Add the Contact Form 7 plugin. Done.
Want to sell stuff from Amazon? Yep. There’s a plugin.
It's free and it's called "Amaya". It's put out by the W3 organization - the guys in charge of web standards.
I would not recommend this.
I built a site with that and it's old school - sort of like how they thought things would develop online in 1999.
The new way is via content management systems. The best is WordPress unless you are building a portal or wiki.
For most companies, WordPress is fine. CNN and other major sites even use it, so why do you need to pay more and do more work?
-------------------------------------------- In case you want to read more...
www.w3.org/Amaya/
World Wide Web Consortium
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
All my web pages here (yes, i am glad God made colors) were made using this.
Simply open up a new document, write all your text, created tables if wanted, change border size and colors of both page and table and cells, rearrange text, change font and size, etc. and save it as hrml (web page) as index.html
Then make other pages, saving and naming them as one lower case title, and create links to them. The link is your host company followed by forward slash and the name of your page, as here . You make a link by selecting the title of the link, then going to Insert>hyperlink>Internet and placing the name in Target.
The cheapest web hosting i have found for business is http://www.freehostia.com/
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