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    Website design software help

    I would like to pick the brains of the collective knowledge on here.

    I have inherited the maintenance of a village website ("You work in computers, you can do this" and "it's for the village, you'll get a thanks in the parish mag"). The site was designed in Dreamweaver on a PC and is hosted by 1&1. I don't want to change the host, and I don't particularly want to have to redesign the site from scratch (although that may be what I have to do).
    I'm not a web developer, but have used FrontPage 97 & 2000 and have tinkered a bit with Dreamweaver CS5 a few years ago. I'm a bit old school and quite like looking at the code to work out what's going on and how to use it.

    Given the amount of funding (£0.00), the current design and my experience, any suggestions for web design software that will run on a Mac and allow me to update the site?
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

    #2
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    I would like to pick the brains of the collective knowledge on here.

    I have inherited the maintenance of a village website ("You work in computers, you can do this" and "it's for the village, you'll get a thanks in the parish mag"). The site was designed in Dreamweaver on a PC and is hosted by 1&1. I don't want to change the host, and I don't particularly want to have to redesign the site from scratch (although that may be what I have to do).
    I'm not a web developer, but have used FrontPage 97 & 2000 and have tinkered a bit with Dreamweaver CS5 a few years ago. I'm a bit old school and quite like looking at the code to work out what's going on and how to use it.

    Given the amount of funding (£0.00), the current design and my experience, any suggestions for web design software that will run on a Mac and allow me to update the site?
    Rapidweaver.

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      #3
      Unless you want to learn a bit of web development, you're much better off just moving to something like a hosted wordpress site. I know you sad you don't want to move host etc. but it's a relatively small amount of upfront work and then maintenance can be done by anyone. Presumably it's stuff like news and event, which wordpress is ideal for.

      There's tonnes of free themes that will give you a modern, responsive web site and can usualy be tweaked easily enough. Install theme, tweak the colours, add a header image/logo etc and you're done. Set up multiple users so they can add stuff themselves.

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        #4
        you can sign up for a free site at wordpress.com, so you can have a bit of a play about. I think you have to have a paid account for DNS so you don't have at mysite.wordpress.com URL.

        I'd recomend using them so you don't have to worry about security as much too.

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          #5
          Originally posted by FrontEnder View Post
          you can sign up for a free site at wordpress.com, so you can have a bit of a play about. I think you have to have a paid account for DNS so you don't have at mysite.wordpress.com URL.

          I'd recomend using them so you don't have to worry about security as much too.
          Don't necessarily need DNS, my website is WordPress fully hosted on my own web host; only needed to add the host's SQL Server support. There's a WP help file on how to do it all.
          Blog? What blog...?

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            #6
            If you wanted to tinker and learn you could just download a bootstrap theme (https://wrapbootstrap.com/), pay £20 for a decent one, use notepad or the mac equiv to change images and text and ftp the changes up to your hosting provider.

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              #7
              I would agree it might be less hassle to do a rebuild in wordpress, simple enough to get to grips with and can get something basic up and running very quickly.

              Also means you can delegate editor access to others for content so you only deal with the back end stuff.
              Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
              I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

              I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                #8
                Thanks for the help. Discovered that 1&1 support Wordpress, spent a couple of hours and now have a working website
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                  Thanks for the help. Discovered that 1&1 support Wordpress, spent a couple of hours and now have a working website
                  Is it any good though?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
                    Is it any good though?
                    It was delivered on budget.

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