know of any good free web site creation software

hi everyone,


does anyone know of any software that allows you to make web pages and ultimelte a web site for free... i mean that front page is good but it may be a bit too complex for my friend.. there must be loads of them out there but i want your recommendations...

thanks in advance

Notepad.

I started on geocities, then I wanted to do stuff not possible with their site builder and that is how I learned html. Now I use notepad. Its the best. SO http://geocities.com

Notepad for me

I prefer Syn Text Editor to Notepad because it has several additional features that include syntax highlighting and regexp find and replace.

I said Notepad because because I was trying to make the point that you can use any text editor.

guys i am sorry i sort of forgot to mention this, my friend is a writer and is totally ignorant about HTML and other development languages, that is why i was asking whether there is some other web page creation software other than front page.

he is trying to make a personal site, nothing too fancy just a few fotos here a few links there etc.

How about Mambo? (just an idea - never used it myself, but it looks pretty good and easy to use) (Or any other CMS for that matter).

i generally use dreamweaver, but thats because i like to get a little sneak peek at how some tables look with eachother. also, i like how dreamweaver colors their PHP syntax

however, if you just want to write HTML, (or PHP with no coloring ) i reccomend Taco HTML Editor. It's pretty cool.

ryan

seriously, tell him to go to webpages he likes(non complicated ones, ones that end in .htm*) and tear them apart in notepad. you cant REALLY build a website without know html. unless you want to spend the money for dreamweaver.

for something like he wants to do all he needs to know is basic html format. tags are easy you want a foto you put in IMG and you remeber to close it.

whitakerz, you apparently don't know how server side languages work.

If you viewed the source of pages that use a server side language like PHP you would see just (X)HTML, JavaScript, and CSS; no PHP code.

hense my caveat of viewsimple pages that end in .htm*

He did say front page is too complex so what makes notepad a good suggestion?

This is kind of worthless except in very basic sites. http://www.piczo.com/

I started out on fortunecity, I don't think they still offer free sites with online web editing. Google and yahoo also had online website editing. If they only need it for one site you could try dreamweaver MX free trial.

I use notepad and gedit. Actually, I like gedit much more than notepad. If I remember corectly it colors html syntax. These are text editors.

I know a friend of mine found a free WYSIWYG editor that attached itself to Netscape Navigator. Next time I'm talking to him I'll ask him what he uses.

I'm not a big WYSIWYG fan. They do have some nice editors behind them though. I like color coded source, especially if I can minimize blocks of code like I can in Sun One Studio and Net Beans

If you have front page then why not use that? They're all going to be fairly complex, it's codding via buttons instead of keystrokes. A few less things you have to remember I suppose.

WYSIWYG editors create junk code and Frontpage is one of the worst. If a program like Frontpage is too complex then you should hire a web programmer, because it doesn't get much simpler than Frontpage.

I like gedit, but I don't often do much typing in Linux.


A .php page could show only HTML code.
A .htm* could have a lot of CSS and JavaScript.

I just don't see your point.