What is a good program for building web sites?And easy to uses. thanks. : )

Macromedia Dreamweaver... and now macromedia work together with Adobe, so you can get some advantages from it though I am not sure what they are.

I personally use notepad.

Depends on the site you want to build really and your knowledge and willingness to write your own HTML code or not.

You can use something as simple as Notepad which of course would require you to know HTML, or something as powerful as Adobe Dreamweaver where technically you never have see the HTML code.

I've been a professional Web developer since yes, the early 90's, my favorite editor is still one called Homesite which comes with Dreamweaver, but it's a very stripped down version of an HTML editor--not as simple as Notepad, but not as complex as Dreamweaver. Homesite still requires you know a lot of HTML.

If you're looking for both a development environment and an HTML/XML editor, I still like Visual Studio; but that's likely WAY overkill for what you'd need.

If you don't know HTML code, and don't want to know, I recommend Dreamweaver, but fair warning, it's expensive. Other folks might have experience with some open source (free or nearly free) visual editors that I've never tried.

I work for Microsoft, so these days we use Microsoft Sharepoint Designer, but I don't recommend that at all unless you're designing and writing for Sharepoint Server exclusively.

If I'm not working on Sharepoint Server, then Microsoft licenses Dreamweaver for me. I'd be willing to go as far as to say Dreamweaver is the industry standard for straight, Web server based (linux or IIS) development and design.

Or probably if you want the free version, you can use Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express Edition (VWD)

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

Although the software meant to build server side page, you can also make normal html with it

I'll Second that reccomendation.

Macromedia sold Dreamweaver to adobe a long time ago. if your just starting out, I would go with front page. its very easy to get lost using DW starting off. or use one of the many free wysiwyg editors out their.

Ive used a free open source programme called NVU, which i found pretty good, using that in conjunction with The Gimp, which is like an open source version of photoshop, can create great results, ive also used Microsoft expression which is pretty user friendly...

Syd Boggle just brought up a good one there, NVU is pretty cool and is fairly easy to use.

Gotta love Open Source ^^

Other than that Coffeecups HTML Editor is good too, but it depends on how much you are willing to spend.

I dont use Open Source, did a one time got lots of spywaer.

I use Namo Webeditor and Dreamweaver CS3, Namo mostly though

Dreamwearver is the best one to go with right now.

I'd highly advise against Front Page. Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, I'm not even sure you can purchase it. Not too mention, it was a CRAPPY program. And coming from me, that means something since I work for Microsoft. LOL.

Microsoft licenses Dreamweaver and Homesite for me and they have for years and years.

Yeah frontpage is/was horrible. I used it in HS for comp class, it was horrible.

i find the best program for someone really looking for a What You See Is What You Get design program to be a program called BlueVoda. Its a free program (because its designed to upload straight to the bluevoda servers which they charge for). Once you've completed your webpage you can use the "preview in browser" function to get the html code (by right clicking on the opened page and selecting view source) or you could simply go into the folder that is holding the preview and copy everything from there to your server (i recommend this especially if you have images on the page or use BV's menu for navigation on your newly created page)

I know that this comes across as an extremely ghetto way to go about this, but like i said, it is easy to use for designing the page

Notepad!

Slacker. Real coders use Debug

Notepad, to be fair, is ultimately the way to go - the easiest way to learn anything is to hand build it from scratch.

For a beginner, Dreamweaver is probably the best place to start.

In terms of tools I use ? Visual Studio and Notepad.

Namo web editor very good

I did most of the coding for this site using a program called "Notepad2" which I would recommend over the default Windows notepad for PHP or other script coding work, it makes life a lot easier.

Notepad++
Notepad
KompoZer Real user Friendly and free
Dreamweaver - Dont use until your better at html leaves to much unneeded code then you can open it up in notepad and clean it up.


Something ive started useing Creative Commons License alot of people just use © Name Year

www.freewebs.net is a good one, and it's free also.

Another problem with going the Notepad way is that I have no clue about all these widgets and modules and CMS (the ones I've seen look as challenging to learn as XHTML and CSS) and whatever things that are so popular now. Someone says, "I found this widget that does (insert some web effect)!" and I ask, "Umm... what's the widget FOR? Why don't you just use the code?"

I tend to avoid Notepad if only because I want something that color codes my code, has line numbers, and the ability to write a macro to do certain boring repetitive tasks.

I'll used Notepad for a quick fix and don't want to be bothered to open Visual Studio or Homesite, but Notepad as a dev tool? Definately not.

I always use Notepad when I'm beginning to learn any script based language. I find that doing it that way forces you to deeply understand how the language syntax works, without having to rely on any prompts, etc.

Once I get to the stage where I know it - then I switch to an automative tool. Then, I'm in the position to be able to look at the output from the tool and strip out the unnecessary stuff, and/or fix it, God forbid, if the tool is buggy. Otherwise - I'd be stuffed.

Xaml, in Notepad, by the way - is a complete nightmare.

That's why I like Homesite, it's just Notepad with colors and numbers. You can turn off all other automated tools in it too if you choose to. As a text editor, I love it and I'll be SO sad when they stop making it. And it does look like Adobe is going to dump it. It was included with the CS2 Suite, but I see it's not in CS3 .

Visual Studio

Dreamweaver is great for quick easy web editing.

I've made a couple of sites at freeservers.com.

It's browser based. And it's free.

I have to agree with Tiggs on this one, Paintshop, Notepad and some good books take you a long way. Once you know why HTML, Javascript or even PHP work you can abbreviate the programming time by using a dedicated editor. But I have yet to find one that is perfect and bug free, and to correct its errors you will have to hand edit more than once.