Web creator

[P-Worm]

Do any of you know a web site design software that is free and compatible with OS X? I'm not to bright as far as coding goes, but I would like to make a respectable web site.

P-Worm

[Rower_CPU]

Hmmm...

Not sure what kind of free options there are beyond a simple text editor and learning how to hand code. Your best bet is probably to hop over to versiontracker and see what kinds of shareware/freeware apps are out there for web page creation.

If you're serious about getting into web design I'd recommend getting Dreamweaver. It's well worth the money.

[P-Worm]

No, I'm not going to be serious about it. I'm even considering getting .mac for its easy web page setup. I'm just planning on making a simple, yet good looking site. I want to make a site based around making good looking effects for video on a very small budget. I'll look around versiontracker.

P-Worm

[ibjoshua]

A WYSIWYG editor for free?
Try Composer (Mozilla or Netscape). It's not the best but it's 100% free and does a pretty good job of holding your hand.

If you're willing to pay go for Dreamwearver everytime.

And if you're serious you really need to learn the code whether you're using a WYSIWYG editor or not.

i_b_joshua

[wwworry]

Try Mozilla or the latest version of netscape. I always thought it had built in the best free editor.

[scem0]

Originally posted by wwworry
Try Mozilla or the latest version of netscape. I always thought it had built in the best free editor.

Moz and Netscape have a built in editor?! I wasn't aware of that.
How cool. I love mozdev. ;)

[Choppaface]

ya, check out the trials for dreamweaver or golive

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by scem0


Moz and Netscape have a built in editor?! I wasn't aware of that.
How cool. I love mozdev. ;)

Actually, since Communicator 4.x, composer has been available. It was part of the upgrade from Navigator.

[rainman::|:|]

i don't care if you're serious or not, learn some basic code. just a few commands, and the command structure, and a page source layout. No javascript or anything... just learn how to manipulate text, change a title, and make a fully formed simple page. It'll make much more sense if you do, as people tend to get very frustrated with HTML editors (it won't do what i want!) when they simply don't realize the inherent limitations of the code.

It would take you all of 20 minutes to learn a little code, it's not hard at all. everything will be much clearer to you, and you never know when it'll come in handy :)

if you'd like, PM me or email me, and i'll type a short list of HTML commands. just glance it over. seriously. :) then you can go off and do whatever you want with visual editors...

pnw

[cr2sh]

I used BBEdit Lite for osX for a while before I purchased a copy of dreamweaver MX, I liked it a lot , its a great basic code editing piece of software.

http://download.com.com/3000-2205-7706873.html?tag=lst-0-13

Taco HTML is there also, its a little uglier but works well also...

[cr2sh]

double post....

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by paulwhannel
i don't care if you're serious or not, learn some basic code. just a few commands, and the command structure, and a page source layout. No javascript or anything... just learn how to manipulate text, change a title, and make a fully formed simple page. It'll make much more sense if you do, as people tend to get very frustrated with HTML editors (it won't do what i want!) when they simply don't realize the inherent limitations of the code.
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pnw

You're so right. I don't know how many times I've had trouble with Adobe GoLive or another WYSIWYG editor and found that it wasn't interpreting the HTML properly and I had to drop into the source code to fix it.

[zarathustra]

Freeway is a free WYSIWYG editor - I am not sure how well it translates iinto HTML, but if you keep it simple, it might work.