[spiderowych]

Simple question: Do you use free website builders???

[TimothyPerez]

spiderowych, on 17 April 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Simple question: Do you use free website builders???

i dont even know what that is?

[Rommel]

spiderowych, on 17 April 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Simple question: Do you use free website builders???

No.

Text DOC. saved as .html or .htm

However,

http://www.javascriptsource.com/ to add free java.

[Szczecinianin]

Simple answer: no. And I guess Notepad++ isn't one. I prefer to build my sites the way I want them. Hence, I don't use such apps at all, free or not.

And on Saturday night Jan Suzin, one of Polish hall-of-fame TV presenters and voice-over, died at 82. It's a big loss.

This post has been edited by Szczecinianin: 23 April 2012 - 01:41 AM

[compnovo]

spiderowych, on 17 April 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Simple question: Do you use free website builders???

In 1997 I used the free Tripod web builder for our personal web site, which my wife continues to maintain (http://dolphinart.tripod.com). Otherwise I've used Frontpage for years and am still the the first edition of the upgrade, Expression Web, for my wife's art website.
BTW, the leaping dolphins of the DolphinArt website were my first animated gifs.

This post has been edited by compnovo: 23 April 2012 - 09:34 AM

[KimberlyForssander]

compnovo, on 23 April 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

spiderowych, on 17 April 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Simple question: Do you use free website builders???

In 1997 I used the free Tripod web builder for our personal web site, which my wife continues to maintain (http://dolphinart.tripod.com). Otherwise I've used Frontpage for years and am still the the first edition of the upgrade, Expression Web, for my wife's art website.
BTW, the leaping dolphins of the DolphinArt website were my first animated gifs.

I only have "notepad" for free otherwise I have used Frontpage Professional and Dreamweaver (now owned by Adobe) Dreamweaver Studio MX is a very good program, but I think its difficult to buy today.

You can download 30 days trial programs at adobe.com and for the tripod webuilder I have used that too for fun and it was very good. Is it still there?

This post has been edited by KimberlyForssander: 19 August 2012 - 01:08 AM

[brainout]

The problem with free website builders are two: 1) they make money by placing ads on your websites, so that can be frustrating to your readers; 2) their tools for helping you make webpages, are usually annoying. However, if you don't know how to write your own HTML code (which you can do in Notepad or any word processing program as if you were writing text files you instead save as 'html') -- then you'd be better off using the site tools.

As for Frontpage, some people like it but I found that I can just write the page in MS Word, then click 'save as a webpage', and it's done. Format isn't 100% what I'd like, but it's fast. (I generally attach Word docs and pdfs of those docs to links in my Youtube videos; but for Mac users, html works better.)

So for a small fee many webhosts will give you more options, and no ads. I use Yahoo. They charge me $7 per month for my brainout.net domain. For that, I get three email accounts, can give my collegues their own domains, and have unlimited uploads via FTP. They give you the tools for uploading, but I prefer to use Firefox's FTP client (which is free), and I prefer to write my own HTML rather than use their tools. They also give you Wordpress so you can have your own blog (I prefer Blogger from Google).

A free webhoster will limit what you can upload, and might even just quit on you. That happened with respect to yahoo geocities, skypoint, Google (?), and some others who in the beginning offered a lot of freebies.

There are other tools you get from Yahoo for this price, but at least you see some of the advantage.

This post has been edited by brainout: 03 September 2012 - 10:35 AM

[gintasdx]

I always prefer visual websites editing with Kompozer or BlueGriffon.