Lo all Now i am going to make my own site at last hahahaha, and i need to knwo what sort of programmes i need that does not use html urghhhhhhh shudders lol any help is muchly appreciated cheers dolly

Attached Link: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html

Even though you don't want to learn html, I'm suggesting you do. It's hard to debug your site if you don't know the structure behind it. Because I'm cheap, and I don't need all the fancy cascading style sheets and XML and extra coding some high end web editors give, I go with the basic, easy to use and careware: Arachnophilia. I've tried others. I go back to this one each and every time. It has easy to use wizards that help you through the coding process. Even if you buy the fancy-dancy expensive WYSYWG kind of editors, learn enough html so when something goes wrong (and it will) you can fix it with a easy editor like Arachnophilia or by opening your page in notepad (no, I didn't forget you can do webpages in html...I just choose not to).

Here here. I use GoLive, because it lets me manage a large collection of sites with the minimal amount of fuss. But more often than not, I'm going back and hand coding large portions of it because something went wrong or I'm bringing in something from an outside site. The point is, you've really got to know the why to understand the how.

If you can afford it, go with Dreamweaver. I love it's features. HotMetalPro is cheaper and has a good set of features as well. You do need to know some HTML because even the best programs can get things wrong and require tweaking. They're really good these days, but they still can't read minds. ;-)

Ok guys Thanks for the input il give some thopught and then sort it cheers dolly

I don't really have any problems with html or anything like that but just to ask, what would be a good server software so I could run my own server on my own machine...anyone got any suggestions?

Attached Link: 1st Page

Another to add to the list "free" At least it was free last time I looked. 1ST Page If your going to do Web Design on a professional basis then I agree with Crescent that DreamWeaver is the one to get. Helen

Dreamweaver is the the one to use but you still need to pickup a book on html and learn some of the basic tags.

I went with Dreamweaver MX, though it is pricey, around $400 unless your a student. You can get Frontpage express from MS for free. It's limited in features, but it will let you play around with designing most sites without all the extras that you may not need. I bought FP97 and played with it, and with FP-Express and didn't like them myself, but it's personal preference also. I strongly sugjest grabing all the trials and demos and play with them, you'll find what works for you better with hands on, and can make a better educated decision then. hope you find one that works for you. Let us all know when you get a page up :) (been workin on mine for 6 months and still pulling my hair out haha)

I'm agreeing with above. Dreamweaver is definatlely a good program, but you should learn the code behind the page. I started out with Arachnophilia. It is a wonderful free program, but it is not WYSIWYG, although it is very easy to learn with. I still have a copy installed, although I use notepad or editpad for most of my work now, and dreavweaver sometimes as a start.

Front Page = evil. I used to teach Front Page and I hated it! There's a lot of M$ "features" that force you to run your site on NT servers (which can limit your choices for web hosting). I haven't touched it in a while, but I'm still hearing the occasional horror story about FP "being helpful" and doing what it thinks is proper for your site, no matter what you actually want to do. Its canned templates are ugly and scream "lazy newbie", as well. Friends don't let friends use FP.

another vote here for dreamweaver, it really is the best and it can actually help you learn html by using the side by side feature. so you can see and edit the code and the wysiwyg page at the same time.

I have Dreamweaver but haven't done much with it yet (maybe 'cause I haven't felt like tackling my 90 page website and converting it around to use DW's new things yet) :-) DAZ uses GoLive for their site :-)

Front Page = evil True. It writes terrible code and restricts what you can do. Starting off with Front Page will give you a warped idea of what is possible and popular with web pages. I teach and use Dreamweaver and would definitely recommend it. DW makes design easy and infinitely flexible, writes great code that can be understood by all browsers (not just M$ Internet Exploder), and can quickly repay your investment in it. Having said all that, I never admit anyone to my DW course who hasn't already learnt HTML. It's just not worth it: their lack of understanding means that they never get past newbie stage. HTML is simple to learn and vital for knowing what you're doing - you won't regret learning it. Good luck and good fun :-)

Everyone I know (including myself) who deals with the web heavily went for Dreamweaver. It is a seriously good tool and absolutely the one I reccomend. To be fair BTW - the modern versions of FP don;t have any of the code problems of the older ones ... your HTML stays nice and clean. But go with DW :)