What is the computer program used for creating websites?

Question

I'd like to create a website but I have no idea what the best program to make one with is and how to make one once I do have a program for it. What's the cheapest or most reasonable program and how can I get started? If anyone could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Well there are two most commonly used programs. Microsoft's Frontpage that comes with Office and Macromedia's Dreamweaver. You can also convert a word document into HTML but that wouldn't be so wise. If you are experienced in programming you can also use Microsoft's Visual Studio for making asp and .net web sites.

If you would like to make a good page there is no better program than Dreamweaver. It is always rated 10/10 and I think no one can compete with it. With it you can do almost everything. I say you should get yourself Macromedia studio that contains Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks among other programs. These are tools meant to make web page making easily.

Answer 2

If you think you're ever likely to want to learn HTML (which isn't difficult) then don't use FrontPage. Similarly, if you don't like files seven times the size they need to be, don't use FrontPage. Also, some webhosts don't support FrontPage extensions.

For a WYSIWYG editor, where you edit it in the same way you edit things with MS Word or MS Publisher, say, Mozilla Composer is very good, and free. Dreamweaver is generally regarded as the best paid-for software for it. Mozilla composer is available from Mozilla.com

Both of these are also good for migrating to editing the HTML in the page afterwards, since they don't add any/much more code than is needed, and create the code in a similar way to how a person would. Source code from an MSFrontPage webpage is generally unintelligble to a human.

Editing the HTML is the most flexible and powerful way of doing it (also becomes the quickest when you know what you're doing), using a WYSISYG editor is the simplest, but least powerful. Most people settle for a combination of the two.

Answer 3

There are a number of programs out there. An inexpensive solution would probably be Macromedia (it might be Adobe now) Dreamweaver. it's extremely powerful and has a broad variety of functions. The Adobe website is a great place to look as well. What I recommend is to buy an Adobe suite. It's a little pricey but it comes with everything you need including the web design program. To find it cheap, you should look at university bookstores and places like those because they can save you a lot of money.

Answer 4

DON'T USE MICROSOFT FRONT PAGE! unless you want your site only to be useable by Internet Explorer!

There are plenty of free web design packages and as stated above, quite a few online ones.
I would sugest learning HTML as an understanding of this will help you produce a better site.
Most wysiwyg web development packages produce a very large number of files and the files themselves are bigger than they need to be.

Decide what you want to do with your site, i.e Static pages, dynamic pages, animation, online games, ecommerce etc.

For producing Dynamic pages and for online applications PHP is a very good programming language to learn. You can also produce online apps, games, forums, chat sites, ecommerce sites, etc and is great for security.
ASP is also popular.
Flash and Shockwave programming for animation and action games.

As you can see there is alot to learn about producing a web site but don't be put off. You could have a static site up in minutes and if you search for learning html you will be writing your own in no time.

Answer 5

First of all,
The web-hoster of your web-site should give you an online web-site creation tool. Alomost every web-site hosting service offers that. Like Globat, 1&1, iPower, and many more...

About the Program that will allow you to create and publish a website, is programs like Microsoft Office FrontPage, Abobe DreamWeaver, VCOM Web Easy Professional, and many more...
But i recommend Adobe DreamWeaver.

As well, you can create a whole website with Microsoft NotePad, if you know codes.


This page will help you:
http://website-creation-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Answer 6

You have a lot of opportunities. If you want to be a web programmer you can go on and learn HTML and ASP (But make sure you install IIS; internet Information system component, you can do that in the add/Remove hardware in the control panel, this software will serve your ASP requests)

On the other hand
If you do not want to learn HTML then
Use Front Page (in the microsoft office), Macromedia Dream weaver. they are web page editing packages that can assist you.
But learn ASP for Remote data Control.

Answer 7

Hi!

If you have Microsoft Office installed, then you can use it to create simple (not appealing) web pages. Also Microsoft FrontPage is good enough. The best is Macromedia (or Adobe?) Dreamwaver, but it is not easy to use. There also are various HTML editors, for that matter.
I'd try a free HTML template with a free HTML editor.

Good luck!

Answer 8

If you are looking for a free website and p*ss easy building try Geocities by Yahoo. You can use the account you use for this. It will lead you through either a simple generic page for you or allow you through the more advanced web-builder to make nice looking websites with nothing to download or put on your computer as it all works on-line..
Try it.. It won't cost you a penny and will give you some web building practise at the very least.

http://geocities.yahoo.com

You will be amazed how simple it can be...

Good luck whichever you decide...

Graham

Answer 9

You can use Notepad to get started, and you need internet explorer and firefox.
Then get 'creating web pages for dummies' isbn 0-7645-4345-8 or
'html for dummies' isbn 0-7645-1995-6. They're both easy to get hold of second hand.
You write the code in Notepad, save as 'index.html' then open it in your web browser.

Its better to learn to hand code before you buy a program; they're all glitchy but this way you'll know how to fix any problems by editing the code.

http://www.mozilla.com/ Firefox web browser

Answer 10

Dreamweavers the best if you have a lot of money but there are a lot of other options look at download.com there are a ton of free trials there so you can see what you like the most. To see a site created with dreamweaver check out my site at boyleswebdesign.com or intellisell.tripod.com to see a site created with macromedia Flash.