Novice designer needs help building a community website

[petek157]

Hey,

I was woundering if I could get some advice. I have an idea about building a live local community website. But because I am a novice designer am not really sure how. My question is what software should I use to design the site. Is there a GUI type program rather then strictly programming, or does someone know where there is a good template. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete

[pzet]

Hi,

Why don't you go for joomla? Easy to set up, nice control panel which barely requires any programming knowledge, plenty of contributions and templates.

That's what I would suggest.

Have fun.

[BrandonK]

Are you after something like ProfileHouse.com (http://ProfileHouse.com)?

[hofmax]

HAHA - Self promotion :D

Profilehouse looks pretty sleek though!

[BrandonK]

HAHA - Self promotion :D

Profilehouse looks pretty sleek though!


Self promotion?!?!


ok maybe a little. :o

Thanks btw, we just got a dedicated server for it. :D

[Kaneda]

I got a web template you can use...in term of CMS...Joomla is good to use...:D

Just make sure you give me credit...

http://www.scgstudio.com/templates/sjlive.psd.tgz

[drew]

We run a community site on a Joomla and Simple Machines integration. I'm no pro and it took me about a day to get it up and running.

PA

[grantgarvey]

I use geeklog It's easy to get running, I can do it in less than 10 minutes now. Fantastico installs it incorrectly though so get it from the project homepage http://www.geeklog.net

[ElmerFudd]

Hey,

I was woundering if I could get some advice. I have an idea about building a live local community website. But because I am a novice designer am not really sure how. My question is what software should I use to design the site. Is there a GUI type program rather then strictly programming, or does someone know where there is a good template. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete
I saw a post on Shoemoney talking about the rel=me tag. I had never geard of this before. Does anyone know what other rel= tags are recognized by search engines?

[Ladymaggic]

I am going to try ProfileHouse...I came here also seeking help to start a new domain...something like a Group Site..to create a Newspaper...
Any suggestions

[jerry44]

Hey,

I was woundering if I could get some advice. I have an idea about building a live local community website. But because I am a novice designer am not really sure how. My question is what software should I use to design the site. Is there a GUI type program rather then strictly programming, or does someone know where there is a good template. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete

I was thinking this the other day but being new to all of this it's still a little confusing

[alemcherry]

I saw a post on Shoemoney talking about the rel=me tag. I had never geard of this before. Does anyone know what other rel= tags are recognized by search engines?

I too heard about this on some forum. Never heard any search engines suggesting or recommending such a thing. It looks weired to me!

[jbladeus]

Does anyone know what other rel= tags are recognized by search engines?
There is the ubiquitous rel="nofollow" tag (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html) which everybody at least in the webmaster community should know about.