Brian, The one time I tried designing my own site for teaching/providing ESL/editing services, I used Rapid Weaver. I was able to create a blog that had a comments section, and the web host I used had plugins that let me put in polls, etc. I used a pre-designed template for the overall design o my site that worked really well with my theme, and found it very easy t create things like registration pages, member-only areas, and a Paypal link for processing payments. Of course these things took getting used to, and it was very frustrating at times, but overall, looking back, Rapid Weaver made the process incredibly easy. I believe the program is around $50, but I could be wrong about that. I have taken my site off of the paid hosting that allowed my PHP scripts (that I obtained from online sources) to work, so visiting my site wouldn't do any good, I guess. But I was really impressed to see the way that Rapid Weaver let me, as someone new to web design and new to the program, create a website that actually looked professional. You just have a blank area like a word processing window where you can bold, but bullet points, different colors, or anything else you may need to format your text. This then becomes the contents of your page.
I hope this helps. Harry On Dec 29, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the only way to design a website through text edit was by > using html? I don't know html is designing a site through wordpress > html based or a template with icons you can use to install text, > links, photos, and plug ins on your page? Thanks > > On Dec 29, 12:14 pm, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have two web sites that are hosted through Go Daddy. I do not know >> html coding and of course the go daddy site templates that were used >> to design the site do not work with voiceover. I am looking to >> redesign from scratch one site and make sure the other one is updated >> regularly. I tried depending on web designers who were donating their >> time, but they always flaked out mid project. I would like to learn >> how to do this on my own, and wanted to see if anyone had some success >> designing and updating their own sites? I will be installing windows 7 >> and creating a virtual machine in the next few weeks, and wanted to >> see if people had more success on the mac side or windows using NDVA >> samobile or windows eyes? The program I have heard that is most >> accessible is rapid weaver,, and I wanted to see if it was better to >> do this on the mac or windows side? Also has anyone had any luck using >> square space or web.com to design a site either with a mac or using a >> VM? Thanks so much. Oh yeah, and what about using wordpress to design >> a website is that possible? My sites are pretty much text based with a >> lot of photos and links to videos. Thanks so much. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
