On Tuesday 14 November 2006 14:51, William S Fulton wrote: > Anyone got any suggestions for some good packages available on Suse for > quickly putting together a simple website? I'm just looking for some > modern pretty looking templates that I can use as a base to add in some > text, static html and maybe some Javascript for some nice hover over > effects. Bluefish and Quanta seem to be very barebones.
Microsoft Front Page Microsoft Publisher Oh, wait...you said SUSE. My bad. The only "package" which will create a templated web page for you - as far as I am aware - is OpenOffice. You can create a web page by selecting File > Wizards > Web Page from a Writer document. Follow the prompts and you will have a halfway-decent looking page. NVu is also included and has some templates available. I haven't really used it though, so YMMV. For a more robust - yet still fairly simple - web authoring system, you want to install - or have your host install - a CMS. You can see on my pages in my signature two examples of a CMS. A CMS is a Content Management System. This allows you to focus on what you want to present as opposed to how you need to get it up there. As I write this, I am using Drupal (www.drupal.org), for my home page and have used Xoops (www.xoops.org) as well as various incarnations of PHPbb (www.phpbb.com) and even PostNuke (http://www.postnuke.com/). The other page listed is a combination of PHPbb and custom work. All of these may need a little tweaking and even some configuration. My preference for ease of use is Drupal, as the authors have made installation a snap. My mother is just starting out using Drupal on her site, and is doing pretty well. I'd show you a link, but she's been in development for awhile now. (/me reminds self to get her site updated...) A good place to check out would be the Open Source CMS page at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ - they have demos and information on all sorts of systems. If you just want to post information out there - or do a simple blog - then maybe a CMS is too much. In this instance you can use a self-supported blog such as WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) or SubText (http://subtextproject.com/) as examples. Should you want to do a blog and not actually host your musings, then you can use Google Blogger, Live Journal, MySpace or any number of sites. For a hosting solution - which will actually let us see your page - you want to search your favorite search engine for cheap hosting solutions. I have seen them from very cheap - around $2.00 / month - to very expensive. I currently have a reseller account for my pages for which I pay around $25/month. I have like 5Gb of space and around 10Gb of traffic. You will also want to get a domain name. This can be done through any domain registrar. Many hosting companies - such as iPowerWeb or One On One - will offer domain registration as part of your package. Okay, enough for tonight. I'm getting a headache writing all this. If you need more information, just ask! -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com || www.filesite.org a turn signal is a statement, not a request --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
