On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:51:48PM +0000, William S Fulton wrote:

Anyone got any suggestions for some good packages available on Suse for quickly putting together a simple website? I'm just looking for some modern pretty looking templates that I can use as a base to add in some text, static html and maybe some Javascript for some nice hover over effects. Bluefish and Quanta seem to be very barebones.

William

I have converted all my (4) web sites from hand coded html to pmwiki (running in cms mode). Highly recommended. www.pmwiki.org Rgds, -- Mike Bishop 907/495-5737 mbishop@mtaonline.net Willow, Alaska --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 14:51, William S Fulton wrote:

Anyone got any suggestions for some good packages available on Suse for quickly putting together a simple website? I'm just looking for some modern pretty looking templates that I can use as a base to add in some text, static html and maybe some Javascript for some nice hover over effects. Bluefish and Quanta seem to be very barebones.

Microsoft Front Page Microsoft Publisher Oh, wait...you said SUSE. My bad. The only "package" which will create a templated web page for you - as far as I am aware - is OpenOffice. You can create a web page by selecting File > Wizards > Web Page from a Writer document. Follow the prompts and you will have a halfway-decent looking page. NVu is also included and has some templates available. I haven't really used it though, so YMMV. For a more robust - yet still fairly simple - web authoring system, you want to install - or have your host install - a CMS. You can see on my pages in my signature two examples of a CMS. A CMS is a Content Management System. This allows you to focus on what you want to present as opposed to how you need to get it up there. As I write this, I am using Drupal (www.drupal.org), for my home page and have used Xoops (www.xoops.org) as well as various incarnations of PHPbb (www.phpbb.com) and even PostNuke (http://www.postnuke.com/). The other page listed is a combination of PHPbb and custom work. All of these may need a little tweaking and even some configuration. My preference for ease of use is Drupal, as the authors have made installation a snap. My mother is just starting out using Drupal on her site, and is doing pretty well. I'd show you a link, but she's been in development for awhile now. (/me reminds self to get her site updated...) A good place to check out would be the Open Source CMS page at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ - they have demos and information on all sorts of systems. If you just want to post information out there - or do a simple blog - then maybe a CMS is too much. In this instance you can use a self-supported blog such as WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) or SubText (http://subtextproject.com/) as examples. Should you want to do a blog and not actually host your musings, then you can use Google Blogger, Live Journal, MySpace or any number of sites. For a hosting solution - which will actually let us see your page - you want to search your favorite search engine for cheap hosting solutions. I have seen them from very cheap - around $2.00 / month - to very expensive. I currently have a reseller account for my pages for which I pay around $25/month. I have like 5Gb of space and around 10Gb of traffic. You will also want to get a domain name. This can be done through any domain registrar. Many hosting companies - such as iPowerWeb or One On One - will offer domain registration as part of your package. Okay, enough for tonight. I'm getting a headache writing all this. If you need more information, just ask! -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com || www.filesite.org a turn signal is a statement, not a request --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 22:51, William S Fulton wrote:

Anyone got any suggestions for some good packages available on Suse for quickly putting together a simple website? I'm just looking for some modern pretty looking templates that I can use as a base to add in some text, static html and maybe some Javascript for some nice hover over effects. Bluefish and Quanta seem to be very barebones.

William --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Do yourself a favour and look Properly at Quanta Nuff said Pete . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org