For the asp pages on the ACB site I've been using Ultraedit 32 http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=10, very straightforward and no excess clutter in terms of coding Ian -----Original Message----- From: Webster Craig [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 03 October 2005 13:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: web hosting and authoring software I should also have said that the main authoring tool I use these days is Macromedia Dreamweaver, powerful, flexible and pretty easy to use. The HTML/Code produced looks a lot cleaner and I guess is the main editing tool of most people these days? Craig Craig Webster, BSc(Hons), MSc, MRCPath Consultant Clinical Scientist Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust Bordesley Green East Birmingham B95ST -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Mottram [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 03 October 2005 12:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: web hosting and authoring software Hi Jonathan, We host a number of web sites already, using Linux running Apache, PHP and MySQL as the database. As Craig has already stated, the changeover to PHP has a learning curve but it is much safer and has many more facilities than Frontpage, which was only ever intended as a basic web authoring tool. PHP also has a number of third party WISIWIG authoring tools available. Regards, Tony Jonathan G. Middle wrote: > Hi chaps > > I am planning to set up a new web domain just for UK NEQAS Birmingham so that we can do some clever stuff! > > For the last seven years I have been using MS FrontPage as authoring software (which requires special software extensions on the server) and doing everything on the main UK NEQAS domain which is hosted by Virtual Internet (now called Active24). > > I have got a bit disillusioned with VI (the FP extensions regularly get corrupted and the server needs re-booting and their technical people always take ages to do this) and MS FP itself is not the friendliest of programmes. > > Do you have any recommendations for a good web host and some nice software that doesn't require special server-side extensions? 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