I'm looking for a means of creating a website for a new product I'm working on.

It needs

1 To be able to handle a fair amount of detail. At a guess I'll end up with around 60 pages (most of which, 40 or so, will be catalogue pages)

2 To be easy to create and update/maintain

3 To look after the purchase etc of domain name(s)

4 To be the right price!

As the above probably shows I know next to sweet FA about this subject. If there are any on line guides to help me that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

To create catalog pages you would be better with a SHOP style package IMHO.

or use some sort of server scripting

I used to use Dreamweaver MX. but this is also Frontpage

I believe they are the 2 industry leaders for general web design

I suggest you look at CMS packages.... Drupal, Joomla etc.... they all do shop stuff as well

as above ^^

I dont think Dreamweaver or Frontpage will allow you to create what you need without some coding experience.

Drupal and Joomla are available as auto-installed packages on quite a few webspace packages.

When you say "To look after the purchase etc of domain name(s) ".. I presume you mean a company who you buy the domain name from and maintain it? Do you have webspace already?

When looking at webspace packages, consider what content is going on your site (i.e. lots of images by sounds of it) and how much traffic you will have visiting it. This will help determine how much space and bandwidth you'll need to buy.

Thanks for your replies guys. I've googled some of the stuff you've advised and I'm afraid I'm none the wiser. if anything I'm even more confused. When it comes to this subject I make Terry F*ckwit look clever.

Can someone explain how this works? In very basic terms. Or is anyone prepared to spent 15 minutes on the phone to help me?

Sorry to appear such a dunce but like a lot of specialist subjects the simple truth is often hidden behind a smokescreen of industry jargon and acronyms.

you have U2U

Dreamweaver's good, but it's best to get a book and learn it properly as these packages put in a lot of code that's not really needed and I've found it quicker to tweak when you know what line you're looking at..

I've got "Teach yourself html and xml in 24 hours" and I've not made amazing websites you can build it up as you're learning