How are you building and maintaining your web sites?

I notice a lot of people here seem to not go much beyond WYSIWYG page creation with maybe a little HTML coding. I code in ColdFusion and use/modify PHP applications. I can't image trying to maintain a site without some coding skills.

So, how are you building and maintaining your web sites?

 

lol it is easy to maintain good sites without coding knowledge, that is what the "services" forum is for lol.

 

By maintaining, what do you mean? I read a post from a guy looking to find software to clean out links to outdated news articles. I'd probably charge him 2 to 10 hours to write some code to do that depending on the architecture of his site so it would cost him several hundred $ to get it done unless he rolled the dice with a developer from a developing nation.

Are you talking about HTML and content maintenance or enhancements that require some complex coding?

 

The only HTML/PHP development tool I use is the text editor UltraEdit, which I switched to about five years ago after using Notepad exclusively for the previous six years before that.

Text editors, baby... they are the only way to go

 

he was talking about no coding, how people with no coding skills make and maintain sites. only with proggies like front page or dreamweaver, but no coding.

 

There are lots of Open Source Content Management System out there allows you to build a site without knowing HTML coding. Take a look at Joomla, Drupal, Geeklog and check out their demo page. You can update contents, links and even change template just by couple mouse clicks.
Hope it help...

 

A lot of people here use a CMS of some sort. Especially the people who run a bunch of sites at once. If there's a certain feature they need that the CMS doesn't have, then they buy a script off someone.

 

Okay a few years back I built my own CMS (using UltraEdit ) and added a web form based WYSIWYG editor (WYSIWYG Pro) to my CMS's interface. This way I can quickly update some of my sites and my wife can update her own website. My CMS works very well and does exactly what I want. My older sites including my chemistry site are still hand coded using UltraEdit.

 

Php and notepad all the way. If I want something added to my CMS, I just build it.

I know it's possible to do it all using WYSIWYG, or by using and modifying other people's scripts. But I'm a control freak, and I love the flexibility that comes from knowing how to code.

 

I prefer to code my own stuff and find that wnen I download apps like phpNuke, phpBB, etc. I end up hacking away at some core file to get things the way I want or I am forced to make changes for security reasons (like changing the location of admin.php).

I find it very hard to live with off the shelf web apps. They are restrictive and always a target of hack-bots.

And to KLM, I just tried UltraEdit in 1997 and it's been my text editor of choice since.

 

I am building most of my sites with my own made CMS system. I code everything in "vi", php, mysql
Using some pre coded apps, like phpbb and advanced poll. Just created myself a blog aswell and using wordpress for that.

I could never handel my sites without own made code and my CMS, would be way to much work

 

Visual Studio 2005......pure html, javascript, asp $$

 

I've come across people who are just the opposite, relying on off-the-shelf stuff for better security and faster working. I guess that's okay if you stick to a small number of favoured apps, and you are prepared to watch for and implement updates frequently. And you don't mind everything looking like a clone of everyone else's. And if your own knowledge of security is pants.

I agree, it's much less work down the line if you put in the effort to learn a scripting language in the first place.

 

I prefer selfcoding. Only for forum I use phpBB. It is better and you have full control above your project. As enviroment I use FAR manager and his editor. It also contains FTP plugin for deploying. I am lookin for some good free IDE for PHP but I was unsuccessful.