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Best/favorite website design software?
#346175 - 10/22/15 03:09 AM
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In the past I've mostly used Dreamweaver and Wordpress, and I know html and can hack some basic PHP stuff. Wordpress seems like it has gone out of style or no? I would like something like that where you can pick a theme and hack it up, is there a "new Wordpress" or what's the deal?
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Re: Best/favorite website design software?
[Re: Smitdogg]
#346182 - 10/22/15 10:54 AM
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maybe try wix.com.
It actually combines the drag and drop style of dreamweaver and will host your stuff at the same time.
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Re: Best/favorite website design software?
[Re: Smitdogg]
#346186 - 10/22/15 03:35 PM
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> In the past I've mostly used Dreamweaver and Wordpress, and I know html and can hack
> some basic PHP stuff. Wordpress seems like it has gone out of style or no? I would
> like something like that where you can pick a theme and hack it up, is there a "new
> Wordpress" or what's the deal?
WordPress is still the king, people use it for lots of stuff that it wasn't designed for, without having to pay for a custom CMS or anything. The trending in WordPress as blogging/CMS platform is not as fast as it was a couple years ago, but its share hasn't decreased at all.
The other contenders at a big distance are drupal and joomla.
Personally I go the route you describe, pick a theme and hack it up. Making a theme from scratch is pretty time consuming. As tools I only use Firefox and Notepad++. The Firefox element inspector for following what and where CSS does stuff is all you need to start. Then of course there are lots of tools for polishing once you're done, you can manually test in Chrome and Safari but there are online tools for testing rendering in more browsers (which is still tricky no matter how simple you think your CSS is), or tools to generate multi-browser CSS (with the -webkit, -mozilla and similar prefixes) and all that.
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Re: Best/favorite website design software?
[Re: Smitdogg]
#346195 - 10/23/15 04:53 AM
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Drupal is very powerful and can be used for almost any type of site, but my understanding is that the configuration can be daunting because of the flexibility. The company I work for is building sites for the EPA using Drupal. This is what one of the Drupal pages looks like... http://www2.epa.gov/science-and-technology/pesticides-science
Joomla has been around forever and has a large user base. I used it a lot in the past, but I haven't built a site in a few years and they've released a lot of major version updates since then so I can't tell you if it's still good.
Wordpress is a hacker magnet because it's one of the most widely used content management systems. Don't even think of using it unless you intend to really, really, really stay on top of any patches and security updates. If you're not up to that, you can get a managed hosting solution where they take care of the updates for you. Either way, you'll still probably get hacked. That's just life with Wordpress.
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Re: Best/favorite website design software?
[Re: krick]
#346196 - 10/23/15 06:19 AM
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> Wordpress is a hacker magnet because it's one of the most widely used content
> management systems. Don't even think of using it unless you intend to really, really,
> really stay on top of any patches and security updates. If you're not up to that, you
> can get a managed hosting solution where they take care of the updates for you.
> Either way, you'll still probably get hacked. That's just life with Wordpress.
Wordpress security isn't as bad as it used to be, most of the attacks these days can't pwn a site immediately. You can also avoid the worst of them with mitigation strategies, including not allowing the web server to write to the Wordpress installation directories (you lose automated updates, but hacks can't trick it into replacing scripts with malicious versions), never moderating comments as an admin user (most or the recent vulnerabilities depend on this to do script injection), and forcing HTTPS for login and admin areas.
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