Whats the best tool to use for making decent websites?

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Hey there. I want to create some websites to use for affiliate marketing and what I think are called basic landing pages. I may even use them for setting up a drop shipping site. I am wondering about what program/service to use to create some good websites. Good meaning they look professional and not like home-made pieces of crap.

I already have Dreamweaver CS3 but I have never used it. I do have experience editing my current site, but not in code. So in short there would definitely be a learning curve for me if I use Dreamweaver.

I know there's lots of resources for having websites done. But I kind of like knowing how things work from the back end. (OF A WEBSITE for all you perverts.) :costumed-smiley-013

So do you think Dreamweaver is worth my time or do you know of a pretty inexpensive way of going about it? Examples would be awesome too.

Thanks
 


Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator is all you need. Start learning those then you can focus on monetizing traffic.

Also, you can always buy (or get free) templates and modify them.

Edit: Go to YouTube and watch some tutorials on how to get started. It should increase your productivity by quite a bit.
 
Dimaseo said:
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator is all you need. Start learning those then you can focus on monetizing traffic.

Also, you can always buy (or get free) templates and modify them
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Agreed. Learn them and you are good to go.
Maybe Flash but I never really use it except for Myspace PPC banners.
 
If you couldn't be bothered with dreamweaver take a look at xsitepro it really is easy to use, and yes you can build really awesome sites with it, just do the tutorial that comes with it, visit the xsitepro forum and you should be golden.
 
I find that CMS systems like Wordpress and Joomla make for sharp and functional results without having to learn 4 web languages. You end up with a dynamic site that's much easier to maintain and update than a flat html site.
 
I think Dreamweaver complicates something really simple like HTML.

Notepad++ is your new best friend...

You're better off learning a bit of CSS & HTML (w3schools is good), and PHP if you want. Just enough to kinda guess what part of the code does what - just enough to install addons to wordpress or drupal or joomla and the like. you can get good templates for any of those.
 
Start up a Wordpress site. Get wordpress at wordpress.org.
Then 2 tools that will come in handy and you will come to love is Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I can't live without them.
 
I'd go for for the design - photoshop and code - TextMate -css/xhtml, after a few attempts and some searching you can learn that stuff pretty fast, and a bit of trail and error will help :D

Or fuck it and just hit the wordpress route, some shit hot designs on there and alot are free and easy to mod :D
 
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