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Title: site building software
Post by: Lavender_Lace on May 22, 2012, 08:10:16 AM
Does anyone know of a good freebie site building software?  Dreamweaver is a bit out of my price range at the moment!  Are there any decent freebie knock off programs out there?
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: kaoskat on May 22, 2012, 08:40:19 AM
Not sure but I'm sure someone will know! Best of luck! What sort of site are you building?
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Lavender_Lace on May 22, 2012, 08:42:40 AM
Well, I'm going to work on 2, one for my ponies and one for my other stuff.  (costuming, custom boutique kids clothing, accessories, etc.)
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Tenar on May 22, 2012, 09:17:30 AM
eclipse is pretty standard open source alternative to DW
http://www.eclipse.org/ (http://www.eclipse.org/)
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Lavender_Lace on May 22, 2012, 09:59:21 AM
Awesome, thanks!  It's been years since I've had a site up so I'm really out of the loop.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Eviecorn on May 22, 2012, 10:13:27 AM
Eclipse's programs work well for a free program.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: melodys_angel on May 22, 2012, 10:38:46 AM
Yeah.  Its called notepad---you should actually have it already ;)


Honestly, its the best way to go if you know your stuff. Other programs have a good tendancy to currupt and do other really nasty things to you. I know this first hand (I had to do my exam in dreamweaver and HATED the thing), but my friend will argue up and down with me otherwise.

Try it and see if you can handle doing everything manually^^

Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Kiwi on May 22, 2012, 04:38:23 PM
I'm not sure if there's something in the OpenOffice family or not, worth a look.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Wardah on May 22, 2012, 08:01:03 PM
Yeah.  Its called notepad---you should actually have it already ;)


Honestly, its the best way to go if you know your stuff. Other programs have a good tendancy to currupt and do other really nasty things to you. I know this first hand (I had to do my exam in dreamweaver and HATED the thing), but my friend will argue up and down with me otherwise.

Try it and see if you can handle doing everything manually^^



In the HTML portion of my Final Exam I had to write it out on paper.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: DoctorMowinckel on May 22, 2012, 08:22:28 PM
Maqetta is pretty good, but it's not really user friendly if you're not up ons your scripting.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Lavender_Lace on May 23, 2012, 07:43:37 AM
Yeah.  Its called notepad---you should actually have it already ;)


Honestly, its the best way to go if you know your stuff. Other programs have a good tendancy to currupt and do other really nasty things to you. I know this first hand (I had to do my exam in dreamweaver and HATED the thing), but my friend will argue up and down with me otherwise.

Try it and see if you can handle doing everything manually^^



lol  True.  But I'm lazy.  :P  I do know basic html, but for what I'd want to do, I'd have to convince my husband to help.  (he's my nerd and I <3 that :D ) 

Thanks for the input everyone!  Hopefully I'll have my site up in a few months. 
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Tenar on May 24, 2012, 06:33:08 AM
Yeah.  Its called notepad---you should actually have it already ;)...

While true that coding by hand is better, DW is pretty standard tool to use.  Using code view isn't much different than notepad.  I agree that DW's design view  is fairly crappy but it's code coloring and auto completion is very handy.

Edit Plus is another well known program.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: Wardah on May 24, 2012, 03:04:05 PM
Yeah.  Its called notepad---you should actually have it already ;)...

While true that coding by hand is better, DW is pretty standard tool to use.  Using code view isn't much different than notepad.  I agree that DW's design view  is fairly crappy but it's code coloring and auto completion is very handy.

That is what my professor had said too. Split view is rather worthless too especially if you are working with HTML5.
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: StoryDreamer on May 24, 2012, 07:35:59 PM
Wordpress! 
Title: Re: site building software
Post by: RAMChYLD on May 30, 2012, 07:07:00 PM
The Seamonkey browser comes with a rudimentary site building software called "Composer". It's a bit limited in that it can only generate static pages, but if what you're looking for is a free no-frills what-you-see-is-what-you-get site builder software, this is the only free one I know at the top of my head, unless you're looking to delve deeper into raw HTML.
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