Web site development.

[Scrag Meister]

Have recently "purchased" a domain for my Ltd, and some hosting.

Does anyone have any recommendations re creating a semi decent website.

I've heard of NVU, does anyone have any ideas about getting a decent looking template that I can simply update.

I'm definitely not creative, too logical as a dev.

I just need something simple, Explaining what I do, how to contact me, previous experience etc...

Doesn't need to be Flash, MySQL and all the associated bells and whistles.

Any web devs who may interested in a quick and easy project, PM me your fees.

[PAH]

Type your stuff into a Word document, save as HTML, and upload the HTML file to your host. Simple.

[doodab]

Have a look at some sites that are similar to what you are trying to achieve, have a look at something like 960.gs, sketch something on a bit of paper, choose colours and so on then code it up.

There isn't really that much "being creative" involved IMO, if you pick sensible colours and stay within the lines you will end up with something fairly professional looking.

[DimPrawn]

This is easy. No skills required whatsoever.

http://mywebsite.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/build-website;jsessionid=1549EA9E7A4B7BC6588CA5AC9F4898A A.TCpfix221b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static&__rd=ac170c2 2Z3PeprmcXE3r5ocHhFCPRA47&origin[site]=PU.WH.UK&origin[page]=Home&ucuoId=PUlead%3Adefault.WH.UK-20110916164019-DB7563B1D054134C889AA2FC11A60F56.TCpfix150b

[d000hg]

Would recommend WordPress to save on the amount of coding personally.

[Sysman]

NVU kept crashing on me, but it was useful for generating example code with the correct syntax.

I have used RapidWeaver (Mac) and Magix Web Designer for Windows in the past, but the problem with both of them was that they are platform dependent. Not important for your own web site, but if someone asks you to knock one up for them, you can find yourself maintaining it forever.

Some of the prepackaged themes that came with those were a bit too heavy on the Javascript side for my taste.

I didn't like the Magix licensing policy either - yes you can allegedly use their product on more than one system, but NOT a system which allows multiple concurrent logins (e.g. Windows Server), and when I was testing backup and recovery they happily invalidated my licence, accusing me of piracy. Feck 'em, I am sure there are other products out there.

On the Wordpress front, be careful which theme you choose. From the many that I looked at a few years ago, I found that technical ability is inversely proportional to good looks. I.e. the nice looking themes are a swine to customise and the one with decent code look awful. One trivial example I came across had hard coded date formats (Yank of course) rather than using Wordpress's ability to set your own date format for everything. The theme looked good, but the code was ugly and this was a pig to sort out.