Is there any FREE web design software available?

Is there any FREE web design software available?

notepad.exe is free

so's TextEdit, if you're on a mac

notepad.exe is free

so's TextEdit, if you're on a mac

Oh, that's just cold! ;-(

I haven't done any web design in years, but I would think an hour spent with Mr. Google would be well rewarded.

I would check out the free versions of the Microsoft tools as a start. Just remember, if something is free there's a reason, and the guy with the 1000 dollar tool is going to be more productive and have more features at his disposal.

Oh, that's just cold! ;-(


I wasn't trying to be cold...

NOTEPAD.ORG The BEST HTML EDITOR (http://www.notepad.org/)

HTML Tutorial (http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html) - "First, if you have any of them fancy HTML editors and have an inkling to break em in now... forget it. The worst way to learn is to use one of those things. (Although there are a few that you will find helpful, they'll only help you once you learn the basics, so don't even worry about it now.) What's the best way to learn HTML?? Notepad. I know, I know, you got this 9 megabyte Wunder Wizzard that says it's gonna make putting up a web page as easy as scratching your head."

Yes, I agree completely that one should learn HTML the old-fashioned way. It pays big dividends later when you start using a very high-level tool that tries to hide those details from you.

I guess in the end, website design is very tedious and like a moon-shot if you're doing a big site, and I don't know if that will ever change. I suppose some of the standard tasks have been made easier, but users keep requiring ever-growing functionality and so the level of abstraction of the tools grows, and at the point I stopped working with it, the tools were getting harder to learn than the lower level stuff!

Microsoft was off inventing so many new abstract terms for things I couldn't even follow what they were writing about. Throw in the competing world of Java and PHP and all that, and you've got a career-long Honey Nut Cluster the likes of which can ruin a man's life -- I'm just sayin'. ;-)

Java is an excellent, free language for web development.

NetBeans is a free IDE that has a built in TomCat server so you can test your Java code in the IDE.

Those are two free options that work well together...there are others.

I use Notepad.

Here's a list of free web editors for beginners to more advanced: The 10 Best Free Web Editors For Windows - Best Free Windows HTML Editors (http://webdesign.about.com/od/windowshtmleditors/tp/free-windows-editors.htm)

Every now & then a used PC or laptop will sell for $50/$100 on Ebay that's preloaded with MS Frontpage plus some other programs. FP isn't the greatest but it's simple to use.

Personally, I think weebly.com is a great free resource. Its free, its very easy to learn, its customizable, lots of options, can be updated from any computer and has a pay option if you wanna take it further.

Coffee Cup html editor is on the list of the ten best editors. I've bought several of their software products. For me, Free Script Editor is much quicker to run and edit with. I think it's a good choice if you have any knowledge about html code. And it's free.

Free Script Editor - advanced editor for HTML, PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, SQL and other languages (http://www.freescripteditor.org/)

notepad.exe and photoshop all i ever needed. well, and knowing php which I code with Notepad++