Anyone know about website design?

[Silent]

There are definite disadvantages to working for small businesses. Particularly small businesses that just started up.
I am still not sure how, but I got roped into designing a website. An entire website. For a business. Rather than hiding in a corner, I'm looking for business's websites, in particular, computer business's wbsites, and well-designed ones. I am hoping that if I see enough, I'll figure out how this thing ought to look.
So... now that I'm done ranting, does anyone have any well-done business websites they could give me links to?

[Xiph0]

*cringes*

Know how you feel, I did a few but they've all evolved into better shit or gone under. Basically you need to hyperlink buttons and make a seperate side bar, and then put a smooth look template over it all, a good formal introduction page before it redirects to the main page?

/ramble

[parselmaster]

I got stuck making a website for my schools Rocket club. I haven't finished yet.

For your small business example problems, why not look at your suppliers websites? They might give you a few ideas.

[Assassinator_of_Dumbledor]

i had to make a web site for chess club still have yet to make it complete. Try using microsofts page builder

[Rob]

... or you can not be a pussy, and not use anything microsoft, perhaps manually code it?

It depends what your requirements are. A site that needs to be able to do online transactions is certainly going to need php with secure session handling, but just a general to-do can be done in html in about 2 hours.

First, do the standard programming thing. Plan it out, and then stick it up here. We - that is to say, I, and anyone else who can actually claim to have completed a site - can give you more advice from that point in.

[bornagainpenguin]

... or you can not be a pussy, and not use anything microsoft, perhaps manually code it?

Try using the old HomeSite (http://xnet.rrc.mb.ca/iclass/software/hs12set.exe) program...It's not WYSIWYG at all but it will teach you how to code html if you stumble around with it.

A real good resource are the pages of other websites. Find the option to 'see source' in whatever browser you're using and learn from the code that exists.

If you insist on using a WYSIWYG HTML editor please consider using Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/), the open source editor that will at least allow you to produce standard html... [tries to hide his distaste for all the Frontpage craptastic pages out there]

--bornagainpenguin

[Assassinator_of_Dumbledor]

if you go that way use java and javascript

[Sepanto]

Bah, writing HTML code manually in notepad then turning it to .html is the BEST WAY.

[parselmaster]

I do most of my work manually. Can be a bit of a pain for the more complex programing though, and you can't protect files you upload that way.