Big Bri
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Hello,
My name is Brian, my wife and I own a B&B in Missouri.
I am brand new to the INNspiring.com group after hearing about you through a friend today. They thought I might be able to get help with a question I have by posting it on your forum.
My question is for anyone out there who can give me advice about website design software.
I have been doing some research of my own and seen titles like Adobe Dreamweaver (seems to be one of the biggies), Intuit’s Website Creator 2009 (not too highly recommended by some), Web Easy…and one called Web Studio 4.0 just to mention a few I have looked into.
I have also seen sites where a person can download individual templates for building a site. Does anyone know about these and/or have you tried them yourselves.
I consider myself an intermediate techy. I know enough to fix small/medium problems and when to call for help with the big ones.
I have done the design of my website for the last 2 years and really enjoy website design. I may not be very good at it yet, but I want to get really good at it. Besides, I am very limited in what I can do with the ‘site builder’ program I use for my website which came as a bundled package with my current Internet/Phone/Cable/…company. The program I use has about 85 templates and their great templates, if a person owns a high tech business, a corporation or a law firm, but a B&B…not so much. I found some non-descriptive templates and that is what I have used on my site. Get lots of compliments by my guests about it, but I feel after 2 years its time for a significant facelift.
I do have a bit of background with computer code (basic, Pascal, C+….ok, have I just aged myself there with the first 2??? oh well) and I have done some html and worked with FTP, but I would not consider myself proficient with them.
Right now I lean toward Dreamweaver software because there is a community class in my town through the cities Education Enrichment program that gets offered twice a year about using Dreamweaver, however, Dreamweaver isn’t cheap and it may provide a bit more than what I need from a website building program. just don’t know.
If anyone can give me some advice I would really appreciate it.
Thank you,
Brian
My name is Brian, my wife and I own a B&B in Missouri.
I am brand new to the INNspiring.com group after hearing about you through a friend today. They thought I might be able to get help with a question I have by posting it on your forum.
My question is for anyone out there who can give me advice about website design software.
I have been doing some research of my own and seen titles like Adobe Dreamweaver (seems to be one of the biggies), Intuit’s Website Creator 2009 (not too highly recommended by some), Web Easy…and one called Web Studio 4.0 just to mention a few I have looked into.
I have also seen sites where a person can download individual templates for building a site. Does anyone know about these and/or have you tried them yourselves.
I consider myself an intermediate techy. I know enough to fix small/medium problems and when to call for help with the big ones.
I have done the design of my website for the last 2 years and really enjoy website design. I may not be very good at it yet, but I want to get really good at it. Besides, I am very limited in what I can do with the ‘site builder’ program I use for my website which came as a bundled package with my current Internet/Phone/Cable/…company. The program I use has about 85 templates and their great templates, if a person owns a high tech business, a corporation or a law firm, but a B&B…not so much. I found some non-descriptive templates and that is what I have used on my site. Get lots of compliments by my guests about it, but I feel after 2 years its time for a significant facelift.
I do have a bit of background with computer code (basic, Pascal, C+….ok, have I just aged myself there with the first 2??? oh well) and I have done some html and worked with FTP, but I would not consider myself proficient with them.
Right now I lean toward Dreamweaver software because there is a community class in my town through the cities Education Enrichment program that gets offered twice a year about using Dreamweaver, however, Dreamweaver isn’t cheap and it may provide a bit more than what I need from a website building program. just don’t know.
If anyone can give me some advice I would really appreciate it.
Thank you,
Brian