I'd like to make a simple graphics and text site

Allright. I'm not exactly sure where to post this - teamphotoshop isn't really the right place - but it seems kinda silly to sign up for another forum for one question when so many of you might be able to help me. Maybe this needs to be moved to a different forum though - if so, please do so.

I have a sliced, basic web page layout - rectangular buttons, rectangular title, and big space for text. I saved it as html and images. Then I made several copies and named them page1, page2, etc. Then opened it in Dreamweaver. I would now like to add hyperlinks (I've figured out how to do this) and different text or images in the big space on the different pages.

Is there any help you guys can give me or a tutorial that could perhaps point me in the right direction?

Or is this perhaps not the easiest way to make a web site? I have photoshop/imageready as well as Dreamweaver and a basic knowledge of HTML. I would rather not code the site myself though, rather spending more time on the graphics and layout than writing code. And I also need something that I can upload easily to a freeserver site like freewebs.com. So images and HTML files work best for me. So maybe I'm not going about this the right way. Any ideas?

And once again I apologize if this is the totally wrong forum but I've seen your sites and they're wonderful. I'm just looking for a simple way to post a text and nice graphics website with the resources that I have. Thanks for your help.

tom

I'm not sure what it is that is your problem, exactly...
To add stuff to the site? :confused:

And, there IS a "client side code" section on this forum. ;)

So uhm yeah....
I could imagine that your problem would be something like this:
You want to add your own code (text and images, links etc etc) into a big white box that you let imageready code for you?
If it's as an image, just delete the < img> tag from there. Simple as that, and replace with your own crap.

If that wasn't your problem, and your giggling at me, then...ask again. :p I'm slow in the mornings. Maybe someone else can understand.

I never really made a very graphic intensive website which used sliced images, but I guess sliced images are the way to go if you want some funky layout with graphics all over the place.

What is your problem now? You want to insert stuff into the big empty space of your page?

You have Dreamweaver - it lets you do all that very easily with stuff like the insert picture button. And if you want to add a hyperlink, just type some text in, highlight it, and enter a URL in the "Link" field at the bottom of the "Properties" menu. There are all sorts of nice tools down there.

I suggest you read some Dreamweaver tutorials.

You don't have to write your own HTML, but I think one can only get optimal results if one does so.

you can insert text into cells straight from photoshop/imageready. just double click the slice and change to no image, then type in text. Make sure no graphics are in this area, and choose a background colour for that cell to match the layout.
Dreamweaver doesn't handle graphical interfaces from photoshop very well. I do back-bone coding in notepad, and then use dreamweaver to mass produce pages after the layout is complete. Mostly - I use my FTP program to edit the pages

Originally posted by satanclaus
...and then use dreamweaver to mass produce pages after the layout is complete.

Learn PHP. :D

Agrees with PaavoPerkele - or just ASP or some other language... It's really sucks to "mass produce" pages, not really that much fun when it needs to be edited