I know my limitations; I have no artistic ability and don't do web design.

So you stick to backend development ?

Would you work with designers ?

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How's it going chaps? First post around here, registered to post in the standards thread but saw this first. Aaaaaanyway...

DW for design (rare these days); EditPlus for tweaking/coding/regexes; PSP for images (hate Photoshop); vi for editing on the server; WordPress for content management of brochureware, bespoke for major content management; osCommerce for basic shops, bespoke for bigger; vBulletin for forums (used to use phpBB for cheapies, but now insist on vB); PDFCreator (pseudo printer) for PDF generation; WAMP for testing server (currently moving back to LAMP). Did I miss anything?

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Adam - Nice to see you

Why did you dump phpbb? (I think I can guess why)

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You've probably guessed all the exploits, and you'd be right, but also because their development cycle is atrocious and they just don't have the features. Obviously I can't stamp my feet as an unhappy customer since they provide it for free and fair dues to them for that, but they really do need to get their skates on if they want their project to stay alive.

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Adam - Have you tried out any of the plugins etc., for vBulletin 3.5* yet?

It's one of the reasons that I have moved so many sites over to it

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I avoided plugins in the past, for obvious reasons, however the new plugin system does seem pretty cool and I have tried it with a custom plugin of my own making (honestly can't remember what it is, must have a look).

However the same problems still exist to a certain degree: templates still need to be reverted a lot of the time and plugins need to be reinstalled, so I don't think I'll be going into them in a big way anytime soon.

adam

Yep, more or less.

Adam - I guess that depends on the plugins that you install...

The ones I use most often do not make any crazy changes to templates and any template changes are very trivial to fix

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Hows a goin!

Tis my first time here and it all looks very cool and very useful to me as i try to gain as much experience everyday in this computer world in my youth!

Well i started webdesign with my school as a transition year mini company in 2003 and we used microsoft publisher 98. Primative, simple but it was easy and effective at the time. Since then i have moved on and expanded everything from the software we use to where we host our sites!! (Blacknight!) I currently use dreamweaver and it is savage. Before that i used frontpage and i would also recomend it as it is very easy to use the great for people learning to make good looking sites.

Although recently i got Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 free with PC Live magazine and its great. Hard to use but the templates are good to play with for now. Unfortunatly if you go to http://www.pgphotosport.com/Default.aspx
you will notice that i have had no luck in getting the site to work once i put it online. IF anyone has any ideas i would appreciate the help as it is great for making galleries.

Also i use cutenews from www.cutephp.com. If anyone knows any free software as good or even better than that which can be incorporated into php websites i would appreciate the reccomendation.

Thanks all

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