Novice webmaster inheriting a website

boboman42 · 07-10-2009, 09:08 PM

Hello all,

I've recently been handed the website for my church (I work there part-time). I've educated myself a bit on basic webdesign and I'm pretty handy with GIMP, which helps a lot. I have Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.

The issue is that the church website (www.sjbcathedral.org) was constructed using tables and tables and tables... to where any URL will read

www.sjbcathedral.org/index.asp?include=*.html

This 'include' stuff is crap, is confusing, and I have the hunch that if I spend hours trying to reform the website into something more user-friendly, I'll be wasting my time.

The previous webmaster generally didn't touch the include files except to edit text and links. Each page was constructed using a template of the main body - a template on which DW catches 17 errors before I touch it.

Can anybody point me in a general direction of where to go or what to do with this? I hear that CSS is responsible for great websites, but I don't know much about it.

Best,
Andrew

dreamcon · 07-11-2009, 05:19 AM

Hi,

Website redesign is always an tough task, as you will have to consider may aspects for web design and to make it more usability and navigation friendliness.

07-10-2009, 09:08 PM	#1
boboman42 New Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	Novice webmaster inheriting a website - redesign? Hello all, I've recently been handed the website for my church (I work there part-time). I've educated myself a bit on basic webdesign and I'm pretty handy with GIMP, which helps a lot. I have Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. The issue is that the church website (www.sjbcathedral.org) was constructed using tables and tables and tables... to where any URL will read www.sjbcathedral.org/index.asp?include=*.html This 'include' stuff is crap, is confusing, and I have the hunch that if I spend hours trying to reform the website into something more user-friendly, I'll be wasting my time. The previous webmaster generally didn't touch the include files except to edit text and links. Each page was constructed using a template of the main body - a template on which DW catches 17 errors before I touch it. Can anybody point me in a general direction of where to go or what to do with this? I hear that CSS is responsible for great websites, but I don't know much about it. Best, Andrew

07-11-2009, 05:19 AM	#2
dreamcon Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 29	Greate Hi, Website redesign is always an tough task, as you will have to consider may aspects for web design and to make it more usability and navigation friendliness. __________________ Website Design Web Application Development Web design Company Web developers Web Design Melbourne Last edited by ian; 07-12-2009 at 06:58 AM.

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