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i got two domain names registered and want a personal site

Jul 20, 2007 11:35AM PDT

I want a site with the top third of the main page, an introduction, then a frame on the left side that is an index to some article and graphics, both of those static, unless someone clicks a link, and then I need a way to get them back to the main page of course, and the bulk of the page would be another frame which will be a blog. I am having a heck of a time finding a tool that will do this. I have godaddy hosted domains, but they don't design,and if I switch to their website builder, I won't have enough pages, for what I want. I am set up as a LINUX host because I want to use Wordpress as the blog. Does anyone know of a tool, that would let me design something like this. graphically, it would look like:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX INTRO XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Index | Blog
Article |
Article |
jpg |
Article |

Is the Linux host or Windows Host best for this. And is there a wysiwyg tool that would allow me to build it without a whole lot of html experience, I mean set it up, the directories, the links and returns and such? I sort of have the idea that domains and subdomains are equivalent to folder and subfolders, but wonder can I create the folder/subfolder structure and ftp it to the domain where the software would create the structure? Or do I have to create the structure on my machine, create exact duplicates in domain/subdomain formats and THEN ftp it up? Godaddy support is just really deficient in this, no one can really explain this to me, countless emails and calls and I am about to give up and cancel and go find another place to put it. But I want it somewhere it will be found, lol, and godaddy does promote their hosted sites, so I would get traffic, if I could ever design the darn thing. I SEE it perfectly in my head, and it seems so simple, but I don't know squat about webbuilding tools and less about html other than that it drives the display. Is this beyond me? Do I have to pay someone to create something so simple? I have the articles and graphics already built, I just need the knowhow and tool to make it look the way I SEE it and then FTP it up so it displays the way I see it. Any ideas about tools or anything else here that would be helpful? I appreciate this place, I learn more here than anywhere else I've ever been online! :^) gene

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Wouldnt it be
Jul 20, 2007 1:56PM PDT

easier for you to make Wordpress the main homepage, have the intro on the page up top, the menu to the right/left of the page above the blog categories, archive, calendar, and search... that way all you have to do is edit the style sheets (to add article and jpg links), which usually the code is well explained and it should be easy to add such links.

Would that work?

I've worked with frames for a bit, when I started designing, but now I stay far away from them because in the end, they've always caused problems.

Hope this helps.

~Sovereign

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Hadn't thought of that at all, didn't know it was possible
Jul 21, 2007 5:16AM PDT

easier for you to make Wordpress the main homepage, have the intro on the page up top, the menu to the right/left of the page above the blog categories, archive, calendar, and search... that way all you have to do is edit the style sheets (to add article and jpg links), which usually the code is well explained and it should be easy to add such links.

Would that work?

I've worked with frames for a bit, when I started designing, but now I stay far away from them because in the end, they've always caused problems.

It might. It hadn't occurred to me that I could do that with WordPress itself. As long as I can make the index work to find the links to the article and pics in the subdomain/subfolders, that just might. Wordpress will do an installation to the domain directly. I am waiting for that and will have to see how it looks. I have a mockup of the frames I want, just the three, in NVU, but am finding some of that hard going. New to it so it is all slow. I suppose I could get someone to build this vision, but I have no idea what someone from a place like freelance might want for such a thing and don't want to pay a fortune for what is essentially a home page and a blog. It doesn't seem like it should be this difficult so I am probably, likely, just missing something. Thanks for the idea, I will try it once WordPress is on the domain. :^)

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Sure
Jul 21, 2007 11:13AM PDT

For something simple like this, it'd be cheaper and definitely more valuable to you if you did this yourself... especially if you have to edit something later, you can do it yourself. Once you have the page up, and still run into problems or questions, feel free to come back here and we'll try to help you out as much as we can.

~Sovereign