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Well if you want to make a simple webpage Microsoft Front Page is fine...

Dreamweaver is more complicated but has mroe options and is for proffesional webpages.

sepse wrote:Well if you want to make a simple webpage Microsoft Front Page is fine...

Dreamweaver is more complicated but has mroe options and is for proffesional webpages.

So you've never done serious web-design. I'd really appreciate if people would read before posting garbage ("... is for proffesional webpages.").

I would recommend Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html). Simple to use, with syntax highlighting.
A few tips for making your first webpage:

Don't use tables! They make your pages huge files! You could make a 40kb page with tables to a 10kb page without tables.
Don't use a WYSIWYG editor. They add unneeded code, making your pages a lot bigger then they need to be.

Good luck!

ConText and PHPDesigner2005

emb92 wrote:Don't use tables! They make your pages huge files! You could make a 40kb page with tables to a 10kb page without tables.

First, if you recommend not to use something, you should at the same time give alternatives for the same purpose. Second, when used properly, you add like 5% HTML code and that's okay. Framesets are worse.

some website offer hosting with a site builder, so all you need to do is write text, change colours and them and add pictures etc

mikey1090 wrote:some website offer hosting with a site builder, so all you need to do is write text, change colours and them and add pictures etc

A site like that would be Geocities, i prefer code though, much easier and more options

Ayukie wrote:I love my textpad ... But for fast creation ... microsoft frontpage then I'll edit the rest in textpad ..

Amen to that! no matter what i do, when i need something launch quick for me to check on text editor, i open Textpad immediately! i use it to build quick HTML page/form/tables/frames, i use it to filter and sort massive thousand lines of code as well! great and simple software for me

i use phpDesigner in Windows

and gPHPedit for Linux

I really liked to use notepad for basic designing, but then I found the best tool I could ever use. It's called CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2006. It has everything you need for web design. Try it out and see for yourselves.


Franko

hmmmmm.. i would like to add adobe photoshop.. it's also a good software for creating websites w/ graphics.. also notepad.. hehe.. you'll be able to have more control on the look of your site..

i use the Wordpad

Hve you tryed PsPAD editor?

well, AFAIK it hasn't been mentioned yet:

i'm using Topstyle from Bradbury
Link: http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.as ... w=overview
for most of my pages and i like the integrated php parser of coffeecup html editor, but the vast majority is done in topstyle.

its a text editor with preview, syntax highlighting and offers lots of options and possible doctypes and CSS versions...

i like dreamweaver especially when u edit and make css..

i like also adobe photoshop cs2 to edit my image or other things..

but i like dreamwaever its the best for me...