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« on: June 02, 2013, 08:49:08 pm »

I've been given the task of creating a website for the restaurant I work at.  They already own a domain name, basically I just need to make something that 2-3 other managers can access, and update regularly.  The other managers have no knowledge of html, and want to be able to just add/update things quickly.  Any big changes they will come to me with, but say on the home page there is a picture of a beer pitcher and it says happy hour 4-6.  And the other manager wants to change that to say appetizers half off during hockey games, and perhaps add a different background picture of hockey sticks or chicken wings or something.

This website was shown to me and said they wanted something similar.  http://www.oliveridleys.com/

I know there is a number of free web hosters out there, I dont know how easy they are to use.  Freewebs was the first one I used many years ago, I think they are webs.com now, they probably wouldn't be the one anyone would recommend, but if they are the easiest to just log in and change things by typing, no knowledge of html, or complicated interfaces, I'll use them. 

Any suggestions?  I'll start and hopefully complete most of it tommorrow.  Then just revise it and have a few minor changes done before the weekend.
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2013, 09:15:58 pm »

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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2013, 06:12:05 am »

Once you have the hosting sorted out, go and download Microsoft Expressions Web.  This was the successor to FrontPage, and they recently made this a free program.  You can work in the code page, or create and edit pages directly on the Design view.  The only downside is there is no customer support.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36179

It can handle connections via WebDAV, or traditional upload via FTP.  You can also use the FTP credentials to edit the websites directly on the FTP site, but I recommend that only if you know what you are doing. 

MS Express Visual Studio is a little more advanced, but still a feature-rich free program.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products
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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2013, 11:56:41 am »

Alright thanks Bman, I'm going to download both and see what happens.  I have a number of old sol sites, and sites I made just to mess around with.  I'll try to sign into one and make a few demos and see which ones look best. 

They're also going to pay me for this lol, I'm not sure what to tell them, I know they hired some doosh who charged them out the ass a few years ago to make some POS that had one page on it, and a banner that he didn't even make.  Which is what I am replacing.  I already drink a lot of beer for pretty cheap/ free up there so I dont want to be greedy. 
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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2013, 02:56:48 pm »

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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2013, 10:26:55 am »

Hey youk, whatsup man.

I'm bumping this because I still have to complete it.  If nothing else, at least to remind me lol.  And my boss really needs something that she can just sit down at her computer with no knowledge and be able to type lines in like im doing now to change some of the things on the page.  She's a very busy lady so her making accounts places or learning any html is definitly out of the question
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2013, 01:09:02 pm »

Did you ever try weebly.com Oce? It's pretty easy to use....just not sure if you can make it look the way you want
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2013, 01:55:11 pm »

Yeah it seems like you just need site-building software, like Term suggested.  But you're probably going to have to stick with their presets, depending on the resource you're using.
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2013, 04:56:31 pm »

No Term, I'll have a look at it though.

Honestly Presets should be fine, as long as it fits the general idea of what we ( she ) wants.  Simple, generic stuff is fine, as long as its easy to change text in places and that sort of thing. 
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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2013, 05:07:54 pm »

That shouldn't be too hard to do.  I'm trying to remember a site I've seen advertised on TV that basically claims it can do what you're describing you want it to do, but I'm having trouble recalling the name of the site.
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2013, 08:26:13 pm »

Weebly is pretty easy...if you know HTML you can customize it but if you don't want to it's easy to use...just drag and drop stuff.
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« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2013, 10:46:07 pm »

Thanks for telling me about weebly, I think it should workout just fine.  Easy to change text and stuff with no html knowledge, and I can go in just as easily and edit the html.   Afro Afro
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« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2013, 05:44:16 am »

No problem  Afro
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« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2013, 02:19:53 pm »

She was definitely impressed with it today, now I just need to add more details, have some more stuff going on.  She also wants a saved PDF file of the webpage, I dont think she gets the whole its hosted be weebly thing.  I appreciate the help guys, now they're going to pay me too lol.  I still dont know what to tell them.  Along with the website they'd mentioned putting me to work at their offices, helping with the computers and what not.  Which would be real cool, these people have money and they like me, and just want to give me something to do basically because they know I cant stand bartending for much longer lol.   Afro
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« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2013, 02:53:06 pm »

That's awesome Oce  Afro even though making the page was easy doesn't mean you shouldn't get paid Smiley and it's great if you can paid for doing computer stuff. A lot of people have no idea how to use computer applications, fix problems and stuff, so if you can then they look at you like you know magic lol the funny thing is that if you can read and you know how to use google then you can figure out a lot of computer problems Smiley
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