It's been a very long time

[Sammy Cat]

since I designed any webpages (hand coding, Aracnophilia, Coffee Cup, Namo, etc.), all very old and outdated tools.

I'm not looking to build the next scalable Amazon. I just want an easy to use program that can help me construct basic layouts with menu tabs. I would use it to make design mockups primitively functional.

Can anybody recommend any modern day editors that I could use?

I am good with Adobe products, but always avoided Dream Weaver even when it was made by Macromedia. Back then, I found it cumbersome, and found coding a lot better. I'm sure times have changed, and maybe it is a better product.

Any suggestions?

 

[waloshin]

Stay away from iWeb. I would download a trial of dreamweaver.

 

[HarryPot]

I used a trial of Coda last week. It was nice.

But as far my experience goes, nothing beats Dreamweaver. Not for doing WYSIWYG designs, but for hand-coding everything.

And I also agree with the above poster, avoid iWeb.

 

[jsm4182]

Dreamweaver is still bloated and slow.

If you know how to code, stick with a good text editor, I personally love Coda, though there are several good text editors for web coding.

 

[lucidmedia]

are you looking to make mockups or make web pages? These are very different tools. There are several-wire framing tools you can use that allow basic interactivity for user testing, but I actually use Keynote for this type of iterative development.

For coding, I would push you towards Coda.

 

[ombrenelcielo]

Espresso is quite good.

 

[HarryPot]

For coding, I would push you towards Coda.

What I didn't liked about Coda was the "uploading to the server" configuration. It seemed to me it was unnecessarily complicated.