I started my internship with this small healthcare organization a few weeks ago. their website is working, but most of the data and information is out of date by about 5 years. Given my IT background, I have volunteered to revamp the website. I have programming experience, and can understand HTML pretty well, but that isn't the issue. All I want to do is add a few photos and change some text, maybe add Google Analytics for traffic analysis, but no big design changes. I've contacted the webhost and should have the password to access the website soon. If it came down to it, I could make the HTML changes in Notepad but if there is software out there that would be helpful, I'd like to take advantage of that.

My problem is that I don't really know how to go about editing the page? Is it best done through FTP, if so.. how? Are there free third party programs that can assist with this?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

ide:
Eclipse for php developers
notepad ++
is the main 2 (i use eclipse personally)


to connect to the site to upload files i usually just use filezilla, just drag and drop files.

I prefer using Visual Studio and Sublime Editor... but Visual Studio is a paid software =/. If you are a student, you might get a student's license of Visual Studio, which will work good for you.

If all you're doing is making quick and dirty changes like that, I'd suggest just using Filezilla (FTP client), and Notepad++ (to edit the files)

yeah this is what im using.. just a few simple HTML and content changes, all i really needed was something with an interpreter like notepad++ so the code is easier to read.
Thanks for the input guys.

there are free version of visual studio for web. however if you just want to edit some files, its definetly overkill.



vouch here.
add: I use WinSCP for ftp connections, i had some bad experience with Filezilla

also if you are planning to make greater changes, just copy the whole site(of course without the 280 gb of HD fantasy ) to your machine and do the changes local, and when you are fully done copy the new version back (dont forget to save the old one for backup)

This post was edited by kuzdithom on Oct 9 2012 04:03pm

I use notepad, smartftp, photoshop or almost everything

I like the program AceHTML because it's very basic and colors the html code's your looking at..makes for easy organizing and editing. Otherwise notepad lol :-P

That depends if the content you are editing is static or dynamic. If it's dynamic, you'll have a lot more to deal with.

Assuming it's static, all you'd need is a text editor and an ftp client. I use Sublime Text 2 and Filezilla because they're both cross-platform.

I use Filezilla for FTP.

For writing all the code out I use Aptana.