Hi Worthy,
Is it a static website or a web-application? In the later case, did you consider the mean stack:
home - Mongo Express Angular Node
Furthermore, I suggest have a look a Twitter Bootstrap the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. Allows to get around hand-written CSS and the websites look quite neat from the beginning.
getbootstrap.com
Cheers,
David
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostI've had a play with Wordpress. That's kind of what got me into wanting to learn a little more about HTML/CSS and the languages. Never gonna be a web developer, but I have to do something on these long cold nights
Look at the template and change it to add your text, move things around, experiment. Add the code so someone can contact you, so perhaps learn about sending email. Throw in a slider or a bit of fancy functionality to learn about Javascript.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostDid several sites using Joomla back in the day and it served a purpose. WP has largely taken over the role Joomla played and with so many themes and plugins it's quick and easy to get a good looking very functional site live in a very short time.
The scope is there to edit themes using CSS or go full PHP for plugins, can't see anything to beat it at the moment unless you want to go eCommerce although it can do that too.
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Originally posted by Spoiler View PostAgree - I inherited a Joomla site and find it harder to do stuff on it than WP. So much so that I paid someone else when it required a major version update.
The scope is there to edit themes using CSS or go full PHP for plugins, can't see anything to beat it at the moment unless you want to go eCommerce although it can do that too.
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostGo for WordPress or Joomla - Joomla's more powerful but a bit more technical. Both provide similar sets of themes.
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Go for WordPress or Joomla - Joomla's more powerful but a bit more technical. Both provide similar sets of themes.
Have a browse round a site like this:
RocketTheme - Joomla Templates, WordPress Themes, Magento Templates and phpBB Styles
It caters for both Joomla and Wordpress so will allow you to try both.
Get your hosting sorted and then create subfolders for each of them. Install both, have a play, see what suits you best and go with it. There are also plugins that allow you to convert between the two (not tried them yet so I don't know the percentage success in converting).
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Didn't have a clue on website creation until I needed to spin up a site for a new company - since then I've done a few sites.
All are WordPress based. As has been mentioned, you don't have to be a designer, just pick a template you like the look of. If you want a little more control on how it looks, use a site builder plugin. I've used Beaver Builder on a couple of recent sites.
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My company website is still HTML and CSS based. It used to be hand crafted HTML but these days I use the free version of Microsoft Expression Web. It generates the code, then you can always modify it by hand if you want.
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI would say if you are a developer then I would expect your company website to not only look decent but have no errors and load pretty fast.
Are you going to add a blog or anything? I use https://github.com/madskristensen/MiniBlog/ which works well with live writer and it pretty lightweight.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostGet cheap hosting with MySQL and cPanel included, install Wordpress and pick a good responsive theme free or paid. A wee bit of tweaking and you have a great site with little pain. Also check out the hundreds of plugins to add functionality.
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I would say if you are a developer then I would expect your company website to not only look decent but have no errors and load pretty fast.
Are you going to add a blog or anything? I use https://github.com/madskristensen/MiniBlog/ which works well with live writer and it pretty lightweight.
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostAnyone built their own website for their contracting company? I had a play with HTML and CSS a few years ago and i'm going to have a go at building myself a little site. Any advice for a beginner?
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Get cheap hosting with MySQL and cPanel included, install Wordpress and pick a good responsive theme free or paid. A wee bit of tweaking and you have a great site with little pain. Also check out the hundreds of plugins to add functionality.
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostAnyone built their own website for their contracting company? I had a play with HTML and CSS a few years ago and i'm going to have a go at building myself a little site. Any advice for a beginner?
There are a few like this...
https://wrapbootstrap.com/themes/landing-pagesLast edited by woohoo; 5 January 2017, 22:03.
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