Creating a mini site, can I just use old html?

[CaseyW]

Hey guys, please exuse my ignorance this is all new to me.

I've had domains for years but never done anything with them, I just found this board and transferred them all to SEDO parking pages yesterday.

I have designed and built web pages in the past both professionally for a company and also as a freelance designer so I have no problem building quick little pages, but is there some reason I should instead use a minisite template? or joomla, or wordpress?

Can I just create my own pages in photoshop and Dreamweaver and throw them up or is there some special things I need to take into consideration?

Thanks for the help!

 

[wishbone]

There's nothing wrong with classic html coding, as long as it makes the content of your site presented well on Google bots, on your visitors and it is light enough to load..

 

[kangtj]

hi there,
for me, html base site have better navigation and suitable for mini sites, but it is become complicated when you are planning to expand your site. Recently I'm prefer to use Wordpress, since it is more easy to handle.

 

[Tork]

only "new" thing to do with old pages is changing all tables to divs and css
other than that you should make an "alt" to every image explaining to google bot what is it

 

[stevemack]

go with all the stuff you have missed across the website, like adding alt and title tags to images, proper navigation or linking structure.

 

[sharma3361]

the only problem you will face with old HTML is lack of design options , otherwise no problem will come from Google bot, it crawls them easily until and unless there is a lot of flash attached with it.

 

[Lithium]

I don't see how static HTML pages off a lack of design options. Wordpress, Joomla, etc, all their templates are just some css with hooks to content where you'd write it statically for an HTML page. You're good using static templates unless you plan on getting fancy with your site and integrating social networking links or rss feeds, that sort of thing. Plugins have simplified our lives very much in that respect with click-button installs.

 

[CaseyW]

yeah,

I can get pretty crafty with html but I haven't built sites with current standards in years. I still don't know how to use divs and css properly. I was a designer back in the day but had 4 programmers in my department to do that kind of stuff. Now I run my own ecommerce site but don't do much backend. I'm trying to dig back into it to start doing something with my parked sites. on my todo list.

 

[lothos]

I prefer html/css for minisites.