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I need to create a web site, but I have very little web design experience. It is for a government program, so it can NOT be done through hosting sites that provide user-friendly tools.
I need a way to quickly create a website, but which can offer the following aspects:
~users need to search 100-150 pdf documents (research summaries) available on the website (can not use google or yahoo search, must be non-commercial). It would be best if this could be done like an advanced search engine or even online catalogue with several categories (author/researcher, date, insitution, topic, etc)
~calendar with email reminders to those who sign up (but we can not use a commercial prodcut like yahoo or google calendars)
~slides shows of photos, possibly sorted by project / person / year (similar to pdfs)
I don’t have the time to get up to speed with the graphics aspect required to make a Dreamweaver website look professional. Would InDesign work?