Website Development Software

mousytrap

Hello all,

Just wondering whether anyone's found any half-decent free website development programs???

This would be for home use and maybe a non profit club. Did have limited exposure to Dreamweaver a few years ago but obviously that costs. Don't have any experience of CSS. Really looking for something widget based that will get me up and running quickly and I'll worry about what's happening in the engine house later on.

Must be producing standard compliant pages though, obviously, not proprietary Microsoft rubbish... and not just limited period free trial.

Probably asking too much, but hey...

Many thanks
mousy

Reggie_Rebel

Try serif, they have a fair few free programmes

C_Mababejive

I use dreamweaver...erm..i got it free.:o

DVardysShadow

Notepad. Or any text editor.

If you are familiar with web development, then you probably know what you want in a tool. But if you are not familiar, the tool gets in the way.

[Deleted User]

Kompozer fits your description perfectly.

mousytrap

I'm a busy mum with two young children, so can't spare the time right now to learn how to do it all with notepad, I'm afraid.

Komposer does look very interesting though. I think I will try that and see how I get on.

Many thanks for the suggestion.

mousy

Farway

Just your lucky day. Giveaway of the day have free WYSIWG on for today

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Giveaway of the Day - Web Page Maker

Only for today, so worth getting it and see if it suits your needs

Looks like plug & play so may be fine for your needs

kwikbreaks

I get their daily email and downloaded that earlier. When I saw this thread I was going to mention it myself.

Very small and simple and generates clean and simple code too from a very brief look. Worth a download imo but may not be capable of producing simple sites much beyond a few pages.

I tend to just use a text editor for my own stuff but I like to look at what programs like this produce (mostly because I've been putting off coding an extension to a site which would involve generating mini sites as subdomains for customers)

mousytrap

I've got both of those installed now and I'm having a play with them. Thanks for the help.