Web making software?

Question

Is there a website from which I could download web making software like Macromedia Dreamweaver (or some software thats similiar) for free?

I'm trying to avoid illegal downloads!

Answer 1

Software (like Dreamweaver in design mode) which attempts to bring a WYSIWYG approach to web design is fundamentally flawed. The HTML language is about structure and semantics and trying to represent that graphically is very very difficult. CSS is the presentation language for the WWW, but it doesn't lend itself to a point and click approach either.

If you click a given point, are you talking about a point relative to the viewport? The top of the document? The paragraph you are in? Something else? What units are you talking about? Pixels? Points? Percentages? The current font size?

CSS lets you describe all these things, and your choice will effect how the page adapts to different browsers (with different window sizes and font sizes).

If you really want to go down the not-really-WYSIWYG route, then Dreamweaver is one of the least worst choices available. Another almost reasonable choice is Nvu, which is somewhat more affordable (since it is free).

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

Any text editor is a better bet (the code view of Dreamwever is reasonable, with some good autocompletion and syntax highlighting, but (as you pointed out) it is expensive, I tend to use JEdit myself).

http://jedit.org/

It also helps to have some browsers for testing, and general debugging tools.

FireBug is an excellent debugging tool for CSS and JavaScript while the Markup Validator is useful for finding syntax errors in the HTML.

http://www.getfirebug.com/
http://validator.w3.org/

Good learning and reference resources can be found at:
http://www.htmldog.com/
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page
http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk/archive/2007/01/learning-javascript/
http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/

Beware of W3Schools as, despite their name, they are not affiliated with the W3C and their content has MANY errors.

Answer 2

Try Nvu, a free, open source web authoring software for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh.

You may also want to try the "Free for Now" Microsoft Expression.

Answer 3

Not anything that can even hold a candle to the quality of Dreamweaver.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/default.aspx

Visual Web Developer 2005 (top left)
That's probably the closest you're going to get.

Answer 4

coffeecup html editor
http://bestofrest.blogspot.com/2007/02/coffeecup-free-html-editor.html

Answer 5

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www.download.com
http://win.softpedia.com/
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http://sourceforge.net/
www.isohunt.com
www.TuCows.com
www.ZD.Net
www.torrentspy.com
finally search in google ♥♥♥