We often get the question on how to edit an existing website. That's a big question and the answer basically boils down to: It depends on how the website was originally designed.
So, what we mean by that is this: If you are creating a new website for the first time, you can choose a number of ways to create and design it. Most people today would choose our Web-Breezy.com website creator. It has 100's of templates to get you started, and then editing the website is a fairly simply drag-and-drop process. Many other people choose a 'CMS' such as WordPress to create their new website. WordPress also has hundreds of templates, and WordPress allows you to fairly simply type in your content and to say what you want to say, and then WordPress takes the text that you've given it, and combines it with the template you've chosen, and it generates the finished website for you. The point it, when you are creating a new website, there are lots of options for how you choose to do that. When you later want to edit the site you've created, you'd use the same program or the same method to edit it - so in these examples, you'd use Web-Breezy or WordPress to edit the site you had created earlier.
So - to reiterate, when it comes to editing an existing website, you really do need to know how it was created in the first place. You can't use Web-Breezy.com to edit an existing WordPress website. You can't use WordPress to edit an existing Flash website. You can't use Microsoft FrontPage to edit an existing Web-Breezy.com website, and so on. You basically need to know what type of website you have, and preferably what program or what method was used to create the website originally.
Also, if you have a simple '.html' website that was created years ago, and if you want to do some small simple edits (lets say just a few edits to dates/prices for example) then the simplest thing would be to use an HTML editor and to load/edit/publish the exiting website. On the other hand, if you are looking at your old website, and if you want to do a total redesign of the website, then this may be a good time to switch to WordPress or Web-Breezy and to totally update the way the site looks, and also update the way the site is created and edited.
I'll create a few more Knowledgebase Articles with more in depth examples of several different methods. I can't really get into entirely teaching how to use certain programs of course, some webdesign programs have manual that are 100's of pages long, so it makes no sense for me to try to replicate all that information. However, I'll create some articles giving a quick example of how to start out with a few types of websites.
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