Members aZnrockstar Posted May 2, 2012 Members Posted May 2, 2012 I'm a new producer in the Austin area, and I'm just getting into Dreamweaver. I don't have Adobe CS at home; I do all my web work at the studio. I would like to start editing my website at home, but I don't want to make changes that won't easily transfer in and out of Dreamweaver. Does anyone know a freeware program that will let me do that? Can I just use text edit and ftp, or do I need special software?
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 2, 2012 Members Posted May 2, 2012 Hi, I'm a developer out in Fredericksburg... played a gig out in Georgetown just last weekend Anyhow, my advice is to dump dreamweaver and use something like wordpress, drupal, joomla or the like (Having done all three, I prefer WP). Basically, you're setting up a web-based program that handles all the content management-- you don't update the actual HTML... you just go to the site, log in, and post your status update or new event or photos or whatever... Then you can edit the site on any computer/iphone/whatever that can access the site.
Members A. Einstein Posted May 2, 2012 Members Posted May 2, 2012 Have your web programming done in Romania, and make vacation in Hawaii with the money you saved.
Moderators daddymack Posted May 2, 2012 Moderators Posted May 2, 2012 but don't they program everything in those Romanian Numerals?
Members A. Einstein Posted May 3, 2012 Members Posted May 3, 2012 yes, and in Geek letters and Corallyian too for a little upcharge, and from $7500.00/month on you can buy a whole village of prommers... eeeh programmers, children and women included
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 5, 2012 Author Members Posted May 5, 2012 thanks, scb. I will have to check those out.
Members dav1 Posted May 9, 2012 Members Posted May 9, 2012 I would like to start editing my website at home, but I don't want to make changes that won't easily transfer in and out of Dreamweaver. Does anyone know a freeware program that will let me do that? Can I just use text edit and ftp, or do I need special software? Notepad (or Mac equivalent) is fine for editing web files and Dreamweaver shouldn't have a problem working with your modified files. You can just ftp your updated files over the old ones, no special software required.
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 11, 2012 Author Members Posted May 11, 2012 What I ended up doing(for the time being), was to incorporate a Blogger account and add my Twitter feed, so I can post new content to my home page from my iphone. Check it out: www.BohoProAudio.com
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 11, 2012 Members Posted May 11, 2012 Good call: looks very solid and easy to update. One thing: big pet peeve of mine and other folks: starting audio when a site loads is a pretty horrific thing to do to folks for a lot of reasons. Having a player is a good thing, but man, if I'm listening to music and I hit your site (and I was) I can almost guarantee that it's your site that I will be closing and not my audio player....
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 11, 2012 Author Members Posted May 11, 2012 Yeah, I'm working on a better solution to that. Maybe there's a way to keep the music at a background level until you roll over the player, or something like that. What do you think?
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 11, 2012 Members Posted May 11, 2012 Yeah, I'm working on a better solution to that. Maybe there's a way to keep the music at a background level until you roll over the player, or something like that. What do you think? IMO, the "right" way to do it is to have a page where folks can go to play samples, and offer the player on the pages without an auto start. With the exception of very few sites (such as youtube pages for specific videos), auto-playing content is a big no-no... and even on individual youtube vidoe pages, you could argue that navigating to the page is actively initiating "play". Once again, that's just my opinion, but it is a professional opinion.
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 11, 2012 Author Members Posted May 11, 2012 How about a myspace-style playlist on the home page, that's intitiated by the user? I definitely want the music to be one of the first things you see, so that you're not having to go look for it, like above or below the link bar.
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 11, 2012 Members Posted May 11, 2012 How about a myspace-style playlist on the home page, that's intitiated by the user? I definitely want the music to be one of the first things you see, so that you're not having to go look for it, like above or below the link bar. Sounds like a reasonable idea... from my perspective as a user I don't want to go looking for the player controls either.... especially if it is playing music and I don't want it to be playin
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 12, 2012 Author Members Posted May 12, 2012 ehhh... nothing is simple...
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 12, 2012 Members Posted May 12, 2012 ehhh... nothing is simple... What are you having trouble with?
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 14, 2012 Author Members Posted May 14, 2012 I'm new to the coding thing, but I'll figure it out eventually. I found a few players that look good, but I don't have sufficient knowledge to integrate them the way I want to.
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 14, 2012 Members Posted May 14, 2012 I'm new to the coding thing, but I'll figure it out eventually. I found a few players that look good, but I don't have sufficient knowledge to integrate them the way I want to. Feel free to ask here. I've integrated several in sites before... Here are two that I personally like: http://jplayer.org/latest/demos/ http://flowplayer.org/
Members aZnrockstar Posted May 26, 2012 Author Members Posted May 26, 2012 I've seen a few sites(not recently) that have a docked bar at the bottom of the screen, and the content scrolls down above it. That would be nice, since my social net icons would also stay visible at all times. How do I do that?
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 28, 2012 Members Posted May 28, 2012 Here's a css solution: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/fixed-footer/
Members Tim Mayock Posted May 29, 2012 Members Posted May 29, 2012 I say dump it and use Weebly I made 5 sites with wordpress and now i am building one with weebly it is really really easy and well documented. scrap all old outdated complicated stuff and learn to do some social media stuff backlinks and the like.
Members Potts Posted May 29, 2012 Members Posted May 29, 2012 Yeah I'm a developer too and I jumped to joomla ause it's just so quick and easy. There's 1000 apps too. I'm done with coding by hand, Photoshop sites, database stuff and everything else when all I want to do is toss up some tunes and post some dates.
Members scarecrowbob Posted May 30, 2012 Members Posted May 30, 2012 Yeah I'm a developer too and I jumped to joomla ause it's just so quick and easy. There's 1000 apps too. I'm done with coding by hand, Photoshop sites, database stuff and everything else when all I want to do is toss up some tunes and post some dates. Yah, but if you aren't willing to even do a minor bit of "hand coding", you end up with "poor form" stuff like unrelated links to Joomla and Mootools in you site footer. Seriously, Adding 10 lines of css isn't exactly like coming up with a new user validation strategy or something. Even on the full on template sites that I do (and I do a lot of work that relies on making a template do whatever someone else tells me to make it do), if I want to actually make things look how I want I still find myself modifying the code.... but that is a lot of what I make my living doing, so maybe it sounds overly complicated to folks who don't do much of that kind of work.
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