What is the EASIEST way to create webpages for Internet Marketing? Is it with X-Site Pro, or are there any other tools or software that makes things easy for us?
Are you looking to steer away from hard coding? Use a nice content management system (CMS) like wordpress or joomla. They're pretty easy to install and maintenance.
EASIEST Way to Create Webpages? Hire a professional. Making a website is easy. Making a GOOD website is not.
And the best way to make a good Web site is to learn. A good book (I don't recommend Web sites for learning how to code since they're not subjected to the same extensive in-house review processes that books are) to start is Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd (SitePoint.com). I also suggest reading Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Zeldman (Zeldman.com) and Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug (Sensible.com). Your other options are using a content management system (you'll need some HTML/CSS experience plus a little bit of understanding of how server-side programming languages work) or hiring a professional (and by professional I mean a competent individual with at least two years of real-world experience which includes a relevant portfolio or a company registered with the government - which is usually for tax reasons).
hi.. making a professional website is not tat simple task. download a template and u can use dreamweaver to edit the template and there are many other software available
Ah, but here's the kicker. What, in your mind, constitutes a professional Web site? To me it's a Web site that's visually appealing to the eye (without overdoing it), easy to use, accessible to most everyone (meaning that you don't have to be using X browser or not have Y disability or Z plugin to access the site), uses the bare minimum of clean, semantic and valid HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict, is easy to navigate (ok, that falls under Web usability), and so on. While the books I recommended will not make you a top-notch designer or developer overnight, they WILL provide the solid foundation that you need to become one - which no WISIWYG garbage-spewing tag soup editor (yes, even Dreamweaver) will ever give you.
I fully agree here, If you don´t learn how to do things in detail you´ll most likely find yourselves stuck as soon as the first tiny problem arises on your site when you built it "the easy way". Getting a site going "the easy way" is probably very easy, but maintaining and developing that site over the years will be very hard if you don´t know the details of what´s behind the curtains of it. My two cents: Take your time to learn before you really launch your site and learn from scratch to do it all by yourself. And stear away from prefab templates and stuff like dreamweaver. Might take more time and effort but it´s well worth it on the long term. And anyway, there´s plenty of very skilled and helpfull people out here that can help you out of your beginners´ mess if worst comes to the worst.
benihana, I LOL'd you comment. But seriously, WordPress is good. But learning is better. I understand web standards and user interface interactions, but I still use WordPress. It is very easy to customize to your liking (if you know how to program). Being Level 3 AAA compliant is a time consuming process, but if you want to reach the widest possible audience it is necessary. I only use Notepad ++ to do my coding because it forces you to know exactly what is going on. WISIWYG that isn't built on standards compliant model can be very harmful. As I type this I still have to go back and fix 100 or so compliance errors on my new site. Not that the site doesn't work, it displays just fine, it is just not in compliance. Something you would have no idea how to fix if you didn't take the time to learn up front. I second Dan Schulz's recommendation of "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. I read in under 6 hours (but I am a slow reader). It is only 200 pages and it is a real eye opener for a novice. Do a little reading first, then attack the problem.
First method won't work because the quality of work produced by the majority of the freelancers there is between negligable and outright atrocious (though there are some GREAT people there who do WONDERFUL work - they're just hard to find, and will either move to greener pastures as they network and get referrals coming in or will give up falsely thinking there's too much competition in the whole industry when they were just trying to look for work in the wrong places). The second is just a cute way to promote your own Web site, and is a reason why I for one am glad that Digital Point doesn't parse links for new members (even I got bit by this when I joined and I was providing quality links to people trying to learn). And the third is a good way to start, but won't help you if you decide you don't want your site to look like everyone else's (which is far more common than you think).
You read one page every 13 seconds. That is impressive. I told you I was a slow reader. Plus the first two hours I was reading it in a car. I'm sooo slooow.
(off topic) Some people actually claim I'm psychic (and it's not because I predicted a major terrorist event two months to the day before it happened as well as two hurricanes striking the US - one major and one minor - and then pointing out which tropical disturbances they'd be and where they'd hit). But I'll end that line of discussion here and dismiss the idea.