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Good company :D

This thread really reeks of SPAM!

As a current webmaster, I recommend looking into learning HTML and CSS. It's an extremely valuable skill, and will look good on your resume, etc.

If you'd like some ideas on where to start, feel free to pm me.

Another option is dreamweaver (there is a student discount, though it's still expensive) which you use like a word document, dragging/dropping pictures, etc.

Are there any alumni who have any knowledge in html? Contacting them would be a good place to start, and they can help nudge you in the right direction.

Don't feel pressured into paying someone to do your site. You want something that someone in the house clearly understands how to maintain.

As our chapter's current webmaster, I haven't spent a dime on the site--mostly from an already great site design and HTML knowledge, which I recommend knowing at least the basic stuff like tables and basic writing stuff (bolds, italics, spaces, etc.) to edit a design well. Another piece of advice: befriend computer science kids. The info on your site's supposed to be public (unless you add a "sisters only" area, in which case, maybe get them to teach you how to make it if they're not in your GLO), so there's not too much of a problem seeing if they can do the code for the website. Draw an idea out on paper and see if anyone could make it happen. I think one of the boyfriends of one of the girls in our chapter was the one to originally redesign our current site, anyway.

But seriously, folks keep mentioning expensive programs like Dreamweaver, which is the program ours was made with, and it's a good one to try that doesn't require HTML knowledge at all (and, if you want to get technical, I think there's a code view in it to use as well). Anyway, it's installed on some of our campus computers. Check around and see if you can use it (or something similar) for free. I know it's installed in the business school's computer lab for student use, so just ask around. Even if it's not your department, see if they could let you use it to redesign your site anyway.

Just make sure recruitment counselors aren't in pics and make sure it's an easy-enough site design for future website chairs to update. Good luck!

I'm the webmaster for Miss Louisiana (Miss America--come visit us! www.misslouisiana.org), and I use Macromedia Contribute and HoTMetaL Pro for my site maintenance. Sadly, the latter is no longer available since Softquad was taken over by Corel.

Contribute, however, requires no HTML knowledge other than the basics. It runs ~$75 or so...much cheaper than Dreamweaver, but it's good for site maintenance and can be learned easily.

Hope this helps. Let us know how your search and site design go.