Help! I need a new website. I used to use a service through Sam's Club that I liked. They had a number of good layouts, it was easy to setup new pages, the ecommerce side worked well. They had a number of page types that were prefab and worked well. Then they dropped that service and switched me to Solid Cactus. The service is alright but I have limited control over the look of the site and there are no prefab pages. I can custom create my own but they don't support frames so some of the things I want to do (a better calendar) can't be done by a third party. Does anyone have a user friendly web hosting service to recommend? I am reasonably competent and don't want to pay a web designer for things I feel I should be able to handle on my own but some templates would be nice. Thanks!
I haven't looked at Dreamweaver in over ten years! I need to have a secure online store. I think that is the nicest feature of my current site (www.UrbanChefHouston.com). How well would working with Dreamweaver support this? Or would it just be for custom pages?
You could also probably just use someone like GoDaddy or Hostgator and see if any of their templates or services suit you
I think Dreamweaver is probably more hands-on than we want. Mrs. Valdez is self-taught and doesn't want to be spending all her time building from scratch. But, it could be that Dreamweaver will give us something pre-fab? Enlighten me on that. As for GoDaddy and HostGator, my prejudice (since I don't know well enough to have anything but a prejudice) is that they wouldn't provide anything functional enough at a price I would agree with. Am I gravely mistaken?
My natural response is that there's a reason people like myself get paid to design/build web sites. But if you're dead set on trying to do it all yourself, I would suggest you take a look at Squarespace. I've tinkered with it in a limited capacity but it seemed pretty cool.
