actually I’d appreciate people commenting and directing all of us to good web based programs in general for constructing/hosting. I’ve had all sorts of advice over the years, and am in the process of redoing my webspace.
I’ve just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the Dreamweaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind...
There are a bunch of Free website hosting companies.
I assume you have tried GoDaddy ?
BTW, what type of business is this ?
Can you send a link to your current site ?
You should get Dreamweaver CS6 and if you have time study how to use it, it’s amazing program but you would have to have some understanding of HTML, Css, Javascript, but what it does is show you how a website will look on all those browsers plus mobile devices before you publish it. There are free lessons all over the place on how to use it.
Good luck on that.
When you find something or someone ... whatever you do ... always make sure you’ve got the iPhone and iPad market covered - because they (by far) use the web more than other similar platforms and they have money to spend and tend to spend more of it.
When I go to a company and find that they cannot design a website to cover iPhone and iPad, then I know that company is not worth wasting my time on. I never bother coming back to them, again.
If everyone will contact me via email (here at this site) and Jim approves I will give you a contact (not my company btw) that can do any and all website designs and maintenance. Am a fan of the owner, btw. The company is located in NC. Jim send you a ping for full disclosure.
Seamonkey!
bfl
I use yola.
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.
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.
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.