Building a Website

[yarden.saa]

Try the easy to use wix.com. it builds great websites such as:
my team website (3339) http://www.wix.com/kfaryona/frc3339
team 1578 - http://www.wix.com/thepurplerobosnails/1578

look at the addresses, they are a little bit long but have a meanning
wix.com/username/websitename

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by yarden.saa

Try the easy to use wix.com...

...but know that it absolutely positively will not work for people who do not use Flash (either by choice or by iOS restriction).

[Koko Ed]

Our web design team lead Datwaan wants to use the kids time on the web team as a time to learn a skill so he makes it a point for them to learn to do web design the hard way by writing it all out in HTML. It's a pain in the butt but what's the point in doing this if not going to learn a skill that you can arm yourself with when you have to take on the real world? You're gonna need all the help you can get nowadays.

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Our web design team lead Datwaan wants to use the kids time on the web team as a time to learn a skill so he makes it a point for them to learn to do web design the hard way by writing it all out in HTML. It's a pain in the butt but what's the point in doing this if not going to learn a skill that you can arm yourself with when you have to take on the real world? You're gonna need all the help you can get nowadays.

I have the same way of thinking. If you take a prepackaged theme, a drag and drop interface, and an automatic up-loader to package it all up and send it to your host, I think you're really selling yourself short.

Take the time to learn how to hand code html. Start with tables, move on to divs and css, and before long you'll have a functional website built 100% by yourself.

There are a number of websites that say "we coded this site completely by ourselves" but when you view-source on them the code is not human-readable, it does not have tab overs or logical spacing: it's clearly an authoring tool that actually coded it. I'd never hold that against them, it's a valid way to build a page: but have they really learned the behind-the-scenes functioning?

Don't get me wrong - there are reasons to use tools. Creating a thousand image picture gallery, or pasting in embed code for twitter and facebook I understand. Please though - don't limit yourself to an authoring tool. Learn HTML - you'll be better for it.