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easiest software for a beginner to build a website

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by shirleynorton12

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I currenty have Publisher 2007 that I used for my website. I am having a lot of trouble with the host since they have changed their platform with upuloading new pictures and forms. What software for a nubbie would you recommend

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by wancona

I just watched a guy in the sales department at my job make a website in about an hour. He is not the most computer savvy person, but it came out to be a nice looking website. He used yahoo Site Builder. Just so that you see, this is the website he created: www.dnadiscovery.net

by shady108

dreamweavers good

or.....
if you sign up for a hosting package with various companies.. www.streamline.net are a good one, they have an online site builder which does all the hard work for you! all you need to do is choose the theme, insert your text and pics and it does the rest for you :)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

and what it takes to code a good one, play around with good ol' straight up HTML. You can write it in Notepad (on Windows) and you will get a seriously good intro to the detail oriented and occasionally tedious job that is writing and maintaining a good-looking, informative website that is accessible no matter what browser is used to view it.

A pretty good reference manual for straight-up HTML is 'SAMS Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and XHTML in 21 Days' by Laura Lemay.

Publisher sucks for website design and is not particularly friendly to any browser that is not Internet Explorer.

by shady108

dreamweaver also has a 30 day free trial! :)

htmls good but for good websites, and to get high up in google searchs etc you need to start using CSS in your websites. Thats also fairly easy to learn. If you use dreamweaver you can create pages and also view the code thats creating each part of the page so its also easy to learn coding that way :)

by shirleynorton12

I certainly appreciate the tip and will try it. Publisher really suck, looks like I wasted my money.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

so you may not have wasted your money. I use it for newsletters, brochures, and flyers. And I use it to create a Course Calendar for each of the classes I teach. You may find you have other uses for it, too!

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