I would like to creat a small web site to advertise my furniture restoration business, mostly showing before and after pictures and some side work I do. I use a mac, (which is finally gaining it’s due respect in the business world), and I have no desire to learn HTML. I know there are alot of web hosting sites now that let you use their web templates and claim it is EASY to creat a web site.
My question is has anyone had recent experience using a truly easy site that is also Mac savy to set up their web site??? I can’t seem to find a comparison llist of reccomended hosting companies for the mac…
thanks!
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I have a Mac and my wife built my site after she taught herself HTML. You should check out the book HTML Goodies by Joe Burns. He also has a website that takes you through step by step on how to make pages, links, photos etc.
If you use HTML or learn a little, you will be able to add content and adjust your site as needed.
If you use a template you have to use what is given to you so if your photos or text don't work within that template format, too bad.
There are programs that have templates for Mac users, Go Live by Adobe is one of them.
My site is quite basic but I think it does the job I need it to do as of now. I do have plans for a slightly different layout and a couple of pages but that is still in the works.
When you find a web host see what types of templates and if they are supported by your browser. Most web hosts have templates that are Mac friendly.
J.P.
I just subscribed to this site, they had a bunch of great offers including subsription to several thousand different photoshop templates. Looks very Mac friendly and was reccomended at several other sites. http://www.imhosted.com/thanks for your response though!
I built myself a very simple web site using a service that came with my domain registration when I purchased it through http://www.Register.com. The service is called WebSiteNow; it costs me $4.95 per month to host the thing and not a penny more. You have to choose from one of their limited templates but you get full control over where and how to display photos, text, and links. It has a Web-based interface so you can update your page using a Mac or a PC.
Matt Berger
Taunton New Media
HTML is actually quite easy to learn. Visit a web site you like and on the view menu, select "Source" (or "Page Source")The text and images are surrounded with "tags" that tell the browser how to format. For example <h2>text</h2> makes text a bit larger.
<table> build a table
<tr> create a row in the table
<td>cell text</td> create a cell in the row
<td>another cell</td>
</tr> end the row
<tr> start another row
</tr>
</table> end the table.A great site I use for HTML help (after you've got the basics down) is
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax.
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