Try designing it in photoshop or a GUI editor first, then code it. I find it much easierOriginally posted by ben hobden
ha ha. Yeah, he does. Do you know what I mean though, if there was just that chance...
I think Id lean more towards the design side too I guess. Though I was surprised how hard it actually was, to make a good looking site. Youd think, a header, a couple of pictures, some text...etc...but once you get going....just not enough confidence with the code i guess
That's only useful if you know what to strip away. Templates are hit and miss as far as quality. If I didn't really know what I was doing and I wanted something nice right off the bat, I would probably go the wordpress route (if your host supports php/mysql). There are developers and themers up the ying-yang and would be easy as pie to find something pre-canned to set up a portfolio (lightbox plugin, etc). You're more apt to find something coded validly. The downside is that all content is in a db so that can be a bit of a drag. You'd also have to make sure you've covered any kind of security issues.Originally posted by mastone
Just download a template from the internet and start building from there. Don't start from scratch or anything.
I download the template strip it for useful parts and build something of it.