Web Site Design

[Ybbon]

Hey,

I have rehosted my domain and as part of that I want to redesign my web site. In the past it was only used to show some photos so now I want to be a little more creative.

My hosting company has Joomla, Wordpress and other open source tools as part of their package - I know they are free, what I mean is they are integrated to make it easy to just push their content to the site. They have a load of others too I don't recall off-hand what they are though.

I am thinking about the top level design now, I did design and create a number of company intranet and internet sites years ago, but a lot of that was done with HTML/Css and written directly with the tags and a text editor. My last site used some other package but it was just images.

I'd like to make the whole with some more interesting functionality utilising php, html, javascript, css - whatever works, with some images, a blog and whatever else seems like a good idea.

So... Does anyone have any opinions on decent s/w for web site creation - the price range I'm looking for is, um, free I do know html and css but am rusty, same with javascript but I have worked with Java for 12+ years (and before that Ada83/95) so I'm more than happy to try coding.

Anyone used Joomla or wordpress?

thanks,

[Bolkonsky]

I've used both.

Wordpress is definitely easier to work with, however you'll almost always maintain that strict blog feeling. Joomla's not exactly the most user-friendly software, you'll struggle to simply do things like get rid of a search box, etc.