I have to re-design our web site?

[Lewis]

I’ve been tasked with trying to modernise our company web site. We are a small company, so they won’t throw much cash at it. Can anyone give me some good tips of how I can do this without any expense and also some good learning sites as I’ve never developed a web site before?

Thanks for your help on this!

[TIM C]

For someone who doesn't know how to make a web site, I'd look at a content managment system like Joomla.
http://www.joomla.org/

It's Open Source, free, and easy to use. You might need to hire a open source geek/contractor to come in for a few hours for your initial setup, but after that, its pretty easy to maintain, and it'll look nice!

If you don't want a CMS, the I would strongly recommend that you stay far, far away from FrontPage. If you must use a WYSIWYG editor, pony up the cash for Dreamweaver or anything that's not FrontPage.

[Chris C]

Visit alistapart.com (or as someone else mentioned w3schools).
They have some very nice articles that show you how do simple things to create very professional looking websites with just a little bit of your time.

Try to avoid using HTML tables to do the layout for you. That's basically "old school" at this point, although somethings never change, cine I've seen HTML written by the .NET architecture that's used to do alignment on web pages.
There are articles all over the web as to why not (or of course why) to use HTML tables for web page layouts.
Here's one such example: http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html

[Seb]

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