just saying hi
Hi all
First time poster on this board.... Why ?
Cause I've got a build a website for my local motorbike club 
I've been in IT for 15 years and done some simple HTML years ago. As I lost my job last year the club thought it was great to elect me Webmaster lol
Ive been playing around this weekend with dreamweaver
So anyone fancy pointing me in a direction please feel free to help me
Cheers
Geordie
greg posted this at 13:19 — 19th January 2009.
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Hi, welcome to the forum
I presume you live(d) in Newcastle(?)
If the motorbike club has a good few members and plenty of people turning up to the meets, a forum might go down well! But only if there are already a decent amount of people that will post, as an empty forum is dull and can put people off the website in general.
A good idea is to look at other bike sites, not to copy, but give you ideas of features and what to offer!
I have never really used Dreamweaver, I have always hard coded, but plenty of peeps here use it so there's plenty of advice to be had.
Signature links on this forum are NO-follow! - This means spam is futile!
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 14:37 — 19th January 2009.
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Hi and welcome!
I hear good things from people using Dreamweaver. What kind of work did you do in your previous job?
decibel.places posted this at 03:30 — 11th February 2009.
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Hi Geordie!
Dreamweaver is a tool and like any tool its results are about as good as the user is skilled.
I have seen awful nested tables, really murky and basically unnecessary, with obscure styles automatically numbered by Dreamweaver (pray tell what is the significance of "style77" ?) and bulky buggy javascript code...
I believe these faux pas can be avoided with proper use.
One thing I like is Dreamweaver can automatically sync your online file with the one you are editing - but so can Filezilla, if you use the right-click edit option.
In any WYSIWYG editor you are sacrificing precision and clean code for ease and speed.
I often need to edit the source of posts created with Rich Text Editors such as FCKeditor when embedded in Drupal to get the precise layout I want.
geordie_e posted this at 18:01 — 19th January 2009.
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Thanks for the welcome,
Previously I was Army for 23 years and the last 5 years as an IT field engineer (mainly going out to sites to fix hardware/software faults).
The club is a national one http://www.vsoc.org.uk/ but each regional club has its own website. We had one but the guy who ran it is too busy with other things and the hosting site went bust ! or so he says lol
Spent most of the day following dreamweaver tutorials and have a couple of pages done (Im not too happy with them but there a starting point). Have to admit, I've quite enjoyed myself today (its far too cold to be messing about in the garage lol).
Cheers
Geordie (living in Newcastle)
successmindedgal posted this at 03:02 — 11th February 2009.
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Welcome here. Nice experience.
cveks posted this at 00:30 — 20th February 2009.
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I am first time here too
It seems that I will learn a lot in tutorials present on forum
Brutal posted this at 19:01 — 4th March 2009.
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Welcome geordie_e.
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