Creating Web Sites Using Free Software and Free Templates Part 1

This video will demonstrate how to create a website using free templates for oswd.org (Open Source Web Design) and the Kompozer web page editing software.

In summary, I

select and preview designs
download one that I like
extract the archive
open the index.html file with Kompozer
edit the parts necessary (title, menus, etc)
create separate pages
test

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• web
• website
• design
• template
• kompozer
• html
• wysiwyg
• open source
• oswd
• oswd.org

[ajlara79]

What if I make a change to my template. Can it be applied to all the pages in your web page?

[allenbeme]

@ajlara79

Unfortunately, no. Kompozer has a templating system, but I never used it. Look into using PHP to add content to the template.

[ComputerSupport4You]

Jus to let you know The windows version is called NVU

[allenbeme]

@ComputerSupport4You

Thanks for your reply. NVU was a project

sponsored by Linspire. They abandoned the project.

Kompozer was the work of some others to frix bugs and improve the project.

So in essence, Kompozer is the latest version of NVU.

Kompozer is available for windows and linux systems

[greenscreenn00bster]

I see you're using linux.

[allenbeme]

I've been using Linux for web development since 2005. It took a while, but I weened myself off Dreamweaver and haven't looked back.

[gudenaurock]

Whiny, made my ears bleed...

[MaryCarlile1]

Thanking you very much for this tutorial it was an immense help for me and I have also followed through with part 2. Job well done.