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[The Chili Monster]

I'm going to attempt to design a website for my fledgling business. In my possession is a copy of Frontpage 2003 and one copy of Dreamweaver 8.
Bearing in mind that I don't know anything about programming, are there other web page packages that are worth considering? What are your opinions on the aforementioned software?
Your comments are appreciated.

[Martin]

Front Page should go in the bin - an absolutely dreadful programme that writes rubbish code! Dreamweaver is the "industry standard", but fiendishly complicated to learn!
For a simple website, you're probably better off using one of the template systems that often come free with your webspace. 8)

[Shirley]

I did a free online course from www.vision2learn.com - it was actually quite good and covered the basic html and at the end of it I had created a 4 page website - only basic... I did the Web Entrepreneur course... this one might be of interest to you. http://www.vision2learn.net/channels/co ... he-web.asp but there are other courses too (not all web stuff)

Funding isn't available for me to do that one now that I've moved back up to Scotland GRRR!!

[The Chili Monster]

Thanks for the info, Shirlz and Martin.
I can't do the online course (no funds for my area) but I may be able to do a Dreamweaver course at the local college and get it funded by thos Jolly Europeans in Brussels ...

[Muddypause]

There's also Nvu, which is an open source product from the Mozilla stable, which also produces Firefox and suchlike. I see it also has its own forum, which could be useful.

Or if you already have the Mozilla Suite, you should have Composer there, too, which Nvu is based upon.

I should point out I've never used either of these, so don't know how good they reallly are. In fact I've never used any web authoring programs - I did get as far as using Notepad and a book of code, but in the end found the whole idea of making web pages a bit beyond my creativity.

[The Chili Monster]

Thanks, Muddy.
I've got the Mozilla Suite and I'll look into the NVu stuff at the weekend - there's a wiki, too! 8)