website creation

**Hollingsworth** · 08-17-2007, 12:17 AM

Anybody have any experience using some kind of open source website creation tools? I mean something more like Wiki or Blog software that has templates in CSS and such. I'm making a wiki, and it's nice and easy. So, I was thinking something similar might be useful for making websites, just without the edit buttons for changing the site.

Thoughts?

Good CSS templates for Dreamweaver would work too.

**ClintP** · 08-17-2007, 04:14 AM

There are free things to use, but you have to do all the work. See Notepad.

In all seriousness, I am not sure about an answer for your question since I am on the programming side of it. But if there were such a tool, I would love it since I loath the web pretty it up side of it. If you find something, be sure to post it. Good luck with css. I hate that shit too.

**Hollingsworth** · 08-17-2007, 04:23 AM

I'm messing around with a combination of stuff. Looking at CSS templates to swipe from them, swiping source code of widgets I like and that sort of thing. We'll see.

**ClintP** · 08-17-2007, 05:07 AM

When it comes to using css for just basic stuff I am ok, but when you get into the page layout aspect of it, I start cursing the monitor and wishing whoever thought it up very bad things. I wish you luck in your endeavor. If we don't hear from you in 24 hours, I will call the president.

**Hollingsworth** · 08-17-2007, 05:13 AM

24 hours? You nuts? I'm working on DD 100. I'm spending very little time on the web shit.

**Hollingsworth** · 09-12-2007, 11:26 PM

Ended up using Joomla for this website creation fun:

http://www.matthollingsworth.net/

**Angel** · 09-13-2007, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Hollingsworth

Ended up using Joomla for this website creation fun:

http://www.matthollingsworth.net/

looks great. i find it so much easier to navigate a simple web site. when it gets to busy, no matter how much i like the information on it, i tend not to revisit it.

**Hollingsworth** · 09-13-2007, 12:18 AM

I think it's okay to have a lot of content as long as the amount of crap on one page is limited, easy to see and nice. I liked Joomla because of it's ease of customization and it's template system. They have lots of easy to read layouts.

**Thomas Mauer** · 09-13-2007, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Your Pal, Angel

looks great. i find it so much easier to navigate a simple web site. when it gets to busy, no matter how much i like the information on it, i tend not to revisit it.

Agreed.