Creating a website

[Stalker72]

I'm creating a website and need recommendations for hosting sites, editors and other things I need.

I had a website at Go Daddy, but I could only use the provided editor, Website Tonight. I don't want that!

As of editing, I have no experience with HTML at all.

Stalker72

[Tibuda]

About editors, you can try Bluefish, but I use only gedit. You can find good tutorials at http://htmldog.com/ and http://www.w3schools.com/

[speedwell68]

The WYSIWYG editor that comes with Mozilla Seamonkey isn't too bad. But as said I find yourself a few HTML tutorials and learn how to code it yourself in Gedit.

[ianhaycox]

If you still have your hosting at GoDaddy you don't have to use their editor. Install an html editor then upload the files via ftp to your site, usually ftp.sitename.com .

Example editors in the repository, some WSYWIG other not,

NVU
Kompozer - bug fix version of NVU
Quanta Plus - KDE but works OK on Gnome
Amaya - Never used it.
Eclipse + HTML, PHP, CSS plugins - Not wsywig
Bluefish
BlueGriffon ?

Some have more fetures than other, including integrated file uploading etc.

Or spend money and get Dreamweaver and run via Wine or in a Windows Virtual Machine.

I've tried most of them, but nowdays I just use Eclipse and have a browser pointing at my workspace and refresh the browser when I want to see any changes.

[dgoosens]

netbeans 6.5 is rather good...
and as said, do spend some time on learning HTML...

[ugm6hr]

I had a website at Go Daddy, but I could only use the provided editor, Website Tonight. I don't want that!

As of editing, I have no experience with HTML at all.

Unless you want complex design in your website, it is reasonable to use a content management system to create a website easily.

Most hosts can install these for you with a few clicks, requiring you just to provide the theme (for layout / colourscheme etc) and content.

I am no expert either, but dabbled with html a few years ago, and found I did not have the stamina to learn to do it properly. More recently, I have found creating a professional looking site with wordpress is 1000 times easier. Wordpress may not be the best fit for what you have in mind (it is aimed at bloggers), but if you look at some of the websites created with it, I think you'll be impressed.

Consider googling "Content Management System" for alternatives. Or look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_content_management_systems#PHP_2

[dannytatom]

Dreamhost gets **** on a lot, but I've used 'em for years and have never had a problem. Also, their unlimited space/banwidth is a great deal. I've had huge ISOs on there for a while and taking at least 60GB a day and have yet to hear a complaint.

[Thirtysixway]

I like using Drupal. You should try it
www.drupal.org

[PythonPower]

I highly recommend AppEngine and it's free unless you get loads of traffic or need more than 500MB of data storage... Here's the link (http://code.google.com/appengine/).