Website design software?

[jason at thought.net]

Regarding wordpress, it's easy enough to install, but why bother?  Several providers will provide blog space for cheap (or indeed nothing, eg. Wordpress.com).  Using your own domain with them requires a little DNS-fu (and cooperation with the blog/cms provider).

--jason wright
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net>
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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:24:13 
To: tacos at amrad.org<tacos at amrad.org>
Subject: Website design software?

I've had wb4jfi.com and wb4jfi.org set up for a while now, using 
justhost.com as the provider.  I haven't had the time, interest, or 
knowledge to build up those sites, and have used some very basic HTML 
editing to put anything at all there.  I now want to expand that site 
some, but am confused on the benefits of various web tools.

justhost.com provides a simple "Site Builder" which is interactive and 
web-based.  It also appears rather limited, due to the simple 
user-interface.  They also support Joomla and Wordpress.  While these 
aren't Greek, they might as well be.  I sort of understand that 
Wordpress is a blog software package, with limited CMS, and Joomla is a 
CMS.  I also have an HTML editor and simple web page creator from Coffee 
Cup that I bought a while back.

What I want to do is be able to put stuff at wb4jfi.com without taking 
up a lot of time and effort.  Every hour spent on building the website 
is another hour taken away from SDR design, or other worthwhile ham 
radio project.  I kind of like the idea of a blog, but not something 
that takes up a lot of time organizing the thing.  I have a book on 
Wordpress, and am reading through it right now.  It seems OK.  I also 
have a book on Joomla on the way.  The thing that bothers me about both 
of them is the setting up, and specialized software on the server required.

Oh, and one more thing, for those that don't know me very well, I have 
trouble drawing a stick-figure.  I am NOT an artist of any kind!

Given all the above, does anyone out there in virtual taco-land have 
comments or suggestions to help me out?
Thanks,
Terry, WB4JFI

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