website building prgrm?

[metchsteekle]

heys, does anyone know of a website building program like dreamwaver, accept free and not dreamweaver?

any helps is worth a

[Dreadlorde]

A text editor and initiative.

Though I do have sympathy for you not wanting to write html.

[metchsteekle]

...yeah i've tried that, its no help that i'm one of those visual people.

i mean in qc you can have almost instant results and tests to asses the situate, but html is not as quick :/

[MasterSplinter]

I use to love to use Adobe GoLive

[haze_the_great]

i've heard JOOMLA in conjunction with xampp is good but i haven't tried it yet:

Joomla!

apache friends - xampp

[Spirit]

KompoZer - Easy web authoring

[powerzord]

notepad

[Mr.Burns]

Hi Metch,

In addition to the ones already mentioned you could always use MS Frontpage, MS Visual Web Developer and I seem to recall testing something called web-matrix. They all have at least some form of WYSIWYG front end but, as with most forms of development, sooner or later you'll probably have to roll your sleeves up and get under the bonnet/hood


Hope this helps

Monty

[dfsp_spirit]

The first thing you should decide is whether you really want/need to create a new website from scratch or not.

It's much easier and (unless you're quite good) often also fancier to just get a free blog that runs wordpress or some other CMS like the ones mentioned before (like Joomla). If you need full control and/or can't accept ads, you may need to rent such a blog for a small monthly fee (or even install & maintain it yourself on a server you rented). You can try wordpress here, it's very easy to setup a free account, takes a few minutes.

If you really want to create your own website, there's 2 choices again: use a WYSIWYG editor or a plain text editor. You seem to prefer the first idea so some of those already mentioned may help you. It's more or less a matter of taste but here's some things to keep in mind:

• Unless you're very good and invest a lot of time, a website created with MS Frontpage will look like webpage created with MS Frontpage.
• If you create a site that needs ASP.net or a database, you'll obviously need a web server that runs it.
• If you're using some prebuild thing like wordpress, make sure to keep it up-to-date (unless the hoster does that for you).
• What MrBurns said is so true: you'll quickly reach a point where you'll want to open the stuff in a text editor. And the output that some of those programs generate ain't fun to work with in a text editor.

Just my 2 cents. My suggestion: have a look at wordpress or try KompoZer. I prefer vim but that's clearly not what you want.

[MasterSplinter]

i've heard JOOMLA in conjunction with xampp is good but i haven't tried it yet:

Joomla!

apache friends - xampp

I'll be taking that motion .gif! TY!!

[R00k]

DreamWeaver is easy to learn, and has a free demo version.
http://tryit.adobe.com/us/cs4/dreamw...p/?sdid=ETRPJ&

[metchsteekle]

DreamWeaver is easy to learn, and has a free demo version.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

heh, that's what i'm trying not to use a crippled demo is never a reliable thing and baker has me brainwashed on open source

[gnounc]

Bluefish. Its open source and in most repos (if you're a gnome user on linux)

Also there are a lot of firefox extensions that I would use. Uhm, Firebug for starters.
MeasureIT is another. aardvark and platypus are worth looking at.

But frankly I would suggest using something like aranae or sublime text editor..
and just learn to do it in text the notepad way.

CSS Tutorial

I'd start there and learn css (html first if you havent already) they're both
super easy to get started with

For anything fancier you are going to want to learn javascript.

[gnounc]

Ok back. Took araneae and bluefish both for a spin because I havent used anything but notepad in a long time.

Bluefish is open source, but its overkill for web pages.

Araneae is not technically open source, but it IS free for personal use, and donation-ware for commercial use, and I think thats just as sweet.

Also you said you wanted instant results like in QC..in araneae (and others) you
type in your code and hit f4 to open in browser...think of it as compiling and you get the idea.

and here is the basic dummyFile I made so I dont have to type the same thing over and over again when I start a new page.

[terminus]

Have you tried HTML Kit? I was a dreamweaver user years ago and tried it and it blew my mind.