Recommend me a web design (html) app.

[debs3759]

Now that I have built a socket 3 test system, I plan on creating web pages to log everything I test. It'll be next year before I have a domain and hosting, but I want to have a website ready to go before I spend anything on it.

I am looking for a decent (and free, if possible) app that will let me create pages visually.

My aim is top record everything I test (CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards, etc), as well as putting any programming code I write online. I will benchmark everything I test, and any code I write will be public domain (under a GPL license).

Can anyone recommend an easy to use html coding app that is either free or cheap?

[cvandijk]

Frontpage Express

About hosting: look at github pages, free hosting and markdown compatibele, which makes it very easy to create pages etc.

A good markdown editor is https://markdownmonster.west-wind.com

[Mearas]

Afaik are there no wysiwyg editors anymore, wich are usable nowadays and for free. There are also better solutions for your job;
I recommend wordpress, a easy to use CMS with a lot of help available. Upload, install, theme install and you can fill it with content.
Or git pages, as cvandijk said, or other provider like wix, jimdo or maybe your hosters own system.

[cvandijk]

Wordpress is also a great option, however be carefull with free templates, sometimes they are full with crap.

[Mearas]

That's true! Ttry the offical ones first wich will be delivered with the system. Maybe they meet your demands ...

[debs3759]

I'm not keen on learning a new web programming language. If markdown is what people use these days, I might have to dig out my pirate copy of Dreamweaver from 15 years ago I can write html, but want to see the page as I write the code. All the energy I put into programming needs to be directed to x86 assembly and brushing up on my C and C++, plus I will be teaching myself how to write Windows apps that work on everything from Windows 95 to Windows 10 and beyond.

Also I can't use my hosts editors as I will be working on it for a year before I set up a website online I don't do anything quickly

[Mearas]

Markdown is also only a technic an not the only way.
Try Wordpress, seems to fit you needs very well. Install it on a local server (eg. xampp from apache friends) it runs in 5 minutes. Some standard themes are included and you can start with the content.
If you're ready to go online: export your DB and import in at the hoster and your content is online.

Do youself a favour and let your dreamweaver where it is, tables aren't a designelemt anymore.

edit: maybe your provider contract (virgin, bt) already includes a small webspace with a mysql database?! So you can start there ...

[debs3759]

I will look into Wordpress. I have heard good things about it. No idea yet just what it is, but thank you for reminding me about it.

[Mearas]

Dreamwaver:
DW is a local WYSIWYG-Editor: you design a page an fill it with content. The result are static pages, wich you load up to you page.

Wordpress (representing a CMS):
Wordpress is a Content Management System. A CMS seperates design from the content, so you have the page design (theme) and the content (your text, images etc).
Some themes are included, you can add other or code you own . But it's not necessary.
The content has to be added via an editor (like a very simple Dreamweaver) in the backend (your settings, if you want). Save your page and it is published.
Wordpress is one of the most simple ways to publish you own side, only wix and co are more simple.

If you need help, don't hesitate to aks.

[debs3759]

Thanks. I have downloaded it, and will take a look at the weekend. Need to brush up on how to host a site on my file server as well until I go online with it

[Mearas]

As an alternative you can get here a fully functional webserver incl. sql

https://www.apachefriends.org/de/index.html

install, run the control panel and start apache (webserver) and the sql server - et voila, you test environment is ready.
Your userfolder is htdocs, that's your webroot (for the wordpress files), via mysql admin (go with ADMIN button in the xampp control panel), create a database (utf8mb4_unicode_ci or utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci) and you're ready for the wordpress install.
localhost is the adress for the sql server, user and pass should be root.