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Web Design

mrsdarbs
mrsdarbs Posts: 412 Forumite
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Ok, so I have a domain and hosting, but need software for microsoft to design the site.

Front Page has been recommended as has Dreamweaver.

What do you guys think? Thanks

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  • miamistu
    miamistu Posts: 33 Forumite
    Front page is a bit naff and has been replaced with Expression Web now, and Dreamweaver is a bit pricy for a beginner (but pretty good). You could try Kompozer which is free and see how you get on.
  • mrsdarbs
    mrsdarbs Posts: 412 Forumite
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    Thanks for that! I was after a free one as this is all new to me and didn't want to be spending a fortune, which I saw Dreamweaver is! lol

    Will take a look this evening!
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,393 Forumite
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    Try NVu for designing the web pages and Gimp for image manipulation. Gimpshop is Gimp altered to look and feel more like Photoshop, for Adobe users. Inkscape will do vector graphics and paint.net is basically paint with some photoshop effects added.

    On Windows I find Irfanview invaluable for viewing, resizing, cropping photos, it will also generate photo gallery pages with all the thumbnails for you.

    If you want to save documents etc in PDF then Openoffice.org will do that.

    All free.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • tripled
    tripled Posts: 2,883 Forumite
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    Visual Web developer is free, although you need to know what you're doing to use it.
  • ohyeahitssorcy
    ohyeahitssorcy Posts: 97 Forumite
    I used to use front page and dreamweaver but since discovering netobjects fusion i wouldnt use anything else its simple and easy and creates proffessional looking sites, front page is useless and dreamweaver is difficult to get to grips with
  • gwyne
    gwyne Posts: 83 Forumite
    How about using Wordpress to create your website? Buy a theme if you want it to look super professional :)
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,908 Forumite
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    ohyeahitssorcy wrote: »
    I used to use front page and dreamweaver but since discovering netobjects fusion i wouldnt use anything else its simple and easy and creates proffessional looking sites, front page is useless and dreamweaver is difficult to get to grips with

    Agree with Netobjects Fusion, free one Early version, 8 I think, now at 11 here

    http://netobjects.com/html/essentials.html
    Numerus non sum
  • Bikertov
    Bikertov Posts: 1,598 Forumite
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    Try this - First Page 2006 http://www.evrsoft.com/
  • Alexander43
    Alexander43 Posts: 16 Forumite
    If you have very basic knowledge on designing then you can go for CMS like wordpress, joomla etc.
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