I am Webmaster by definition only. I have been hacking HTML for some time but PHP, CSS & MySQL are new to me. My simple site at Justhost was put up with cPanel using rvSitebuilder which uses templates that are a bear to customize. This is unsatisfactory. I added a Blog & Newsletter. They each provided thier own login scripts and DB which is usatisfactory. I started over and coded by hand a similar site intending to create a fully customizable site with a single unified logon. Is it reasonable to continue by hand? Should I submit to a Sitebuilder and canned templates? (Maybe a different one.) Should I actually spend $$$ and get something like Dreamweaver? Your Comments Appreciated! Thank You Needy
You should get some help from an specialist on that field for offering a customizable solution that later on you can handle if you don;t have the knowledge of PHP / MySQL.
Definitely agree with Brian , start Dreamweaver Sitebuilder is just for very beginner users which don know anything about web design or only wanna use that for have a something like blog not a good webmaster buddy
drop the sitebuilder and build your site with your own imagination and skills, learn to create web 2.0 sites
I'm gratefull for all your comments which confirm my suspicions. I'm going the hand coding route and have been cracking the books. Man-o-Man! This ain't your fathers HTML!
In agreement here!! The best way to get started is to download a free theme and play around with it. Try to figure out the various php loops and the css then you are away! Wordpress codex is the best place to start: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page