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Hello,

I need to create a web page, so what software do you recommend? I heard about Front Page and others. I need something easy to use, cause I not a computer specialist.

Thank you very much for your suggestions

If you need something free and easy, go with Mozilla's composer. I think that has publishing abilities also, so you shouldn't need FTP software.

Thanks Davo,

I will try it. But it doesnt need to be a free software, I am disposed to buy something so I have the manual and do more powerfull things.

Mozilla will give you a good starting point. If after that you feel you need more capability, then you can think about buying some of the higher-end stuff. But if you're going to purchase something that is easy to use and powerful, FrontPage is your best option.

There was one of the computer guys in Kuwait telling me how good Dreamweaver was...

I've only used a composer when I had my very first website, which was at Xoom.net before Nbci.net took them over and later stopped hosting. I used Netscape composer back then.

Nowadays it's all Notepad yo.

Dreamweaver is excellent. I'm guessing it's a little too complicated and/or expensive for beginners though.

And yeah, I don't have an editor at work so I had to do quite a bit of HTML through Notepad. Sometimes it's the simplest.

I tend to use dreamweaver. If you don't know coding dreamweaver is your best choice. You can download there demo and take it from there . You can do pure coding +snippets of pre coded stuff for pages. Or use design mode. I usually design stuff and then do tweaking to get things to display how I want them to in the coding mode. Its very easy to use. The best part about it is its all xhtml based since html is pretty much dead. Using xhtml versus html puts more strict guide lines on your html. Which in return makes it so that your pages display correctly amoung different browsers. Frontpage is good if your audience is only Internet Explorer users. They use a lot of extra things to accomplish nothing extra. I have used front page at work cause they don't download Dreamweaver due to some deal with Microsoft discounts. Now after I save the page I usually spend 4-5 minutes cleaning worthless code out of the page usually trimming the file size by almost half on small pages (>10k) and 4-5k off pages <10k. Microsoft uses a lot of code specifically Internet explorer only causing your pages not to work on use firefox, opera, netscape... and everyone elses browsers. well maybe not so much opera.