I have made all of my homepages with a normal text editor, and it works great for me. There are several places I learnt from:
- a HTML reference (selfhtml.org if you speak german or french)
- some books
- the sources of various webpages (if you think something looks cool just check the source and see how it's done)
after all it needs quite a lot of pratice though. I have been doing this for more than ten years now (my first pages look awesomely ... horrible), but today I am faster with a text editor than some other people I know using Dreamweaver.
A well designed and functional web pages for a project is important. I mean, Irrlicht is a very good example of that -- the web pages are professional and useful.
What sort of impression would a project provide using the default crappy SourceForge web page?
Not to say that a web page is more important than the game (far from it), but I don't think it should be ignored if the goal is to present an appealing project.
In any event, perhaps just writing HTML by hand with a text editor is the easiest solution. That's fine, I was just looking to see if I might be missing something.
For simple webpages I often use quanta, but I think it only runs on Linux. For modifying them I just use a texteditor.
When I do some design I use sometimes OpenOffice. Doing websites with it is nearly like working with a wiki (but you don't have to install a wikisystem, so it's easier to exchange with others).
Once you get complexer websites I suppose you should use some CMS (content management system) like drupal.
I'd have said google pages, which is what i use, but they're not allowing new signups now as they're working on a replacement service.
i'd say that if you're just starting a project you don't really need to worry too much about a website as you probably won't have much stuff to put there!
