Please recommend a good website builder

Hi, can anyone recommend a good powerful WYSIWYG website builder? Easy to use would be the key. Thanks

 

There is a popular free one available at nvu.org or if you can afford to spend about $200 xSitepro.com is a good one.

Debs

 

You can try out the Visualsite Designer by CoffeeCup.com. They offer a free trial period and after that it is relatively inexpensive I think like $49. It worked well for me as I wanted to try designing my own website.

 

Dreamweaver is the one. Its goooooood.

 

has anyone heard of SBI? how good it is compared to xsitepro?

 

I've helped somebody with a SBI site, and while it's good for newbies in many ways, it's limiting in other areas such as installing scripts and such as you don't have a normal web panel access. Where as you can use scripts and stuff with xSitepro. xSitepro has a built in FTP function but you have your own hosting, SBI provides hosting as well, but it limits you as to what you can do and the site won't work except on their servers. In my opinion SBI is too propietary, but that's how they keep you hooked.

Debs

 

Thanks Debs for sharing your invaluable experience
I have checked with xsitepro, their system cannot do auto submission to SE..(i know SBI can).. how do I submit my pages?
Do I only submit to SE after finished building the whole site or or can I submit one page at a time as and when I finished building?

 

You should not submit to search engines so don`t worry about that. Do not waste your time in that area. When you make incoming links to your sites you the se`s will find the sites. Making links however is very important.

 

Namo web editor is the one i love ,dreamweaver also good one.

 

is Namo WYSIWYG suitable for beginners? do you mind providing me a site of yours that's built by namo? tks

 

If you are serious about making sites you should use Dreamweaver.

 

sorry, i don't know html or java or any of the languages to use dreamweaver or frontpage

 

Hi Olang,

Yes, if you use xSitePro you'll need to submit your sites elsewhere, but you don't have to submit each page, you can create one page and submit it and continue to build your site. Once the search engines have indexed your site they will come back automatically so you don't have to keep submitting it. Also a lot of cPanel web hosts will have some site submission tools in your web hosting panel.

Debs

 

I been using dreamweaver since it came out, and still use it till this day. Quality product.

 

You do not need to know any language to use dreamweaver. But as a bonus you will learn html as you go. I mean, if you will make many sites in the future you should invest some time to learn a bit. Sit down one week and learn the basics of dreamweaver. In the future you will save a lot of time if you do that.

 

Dreamweaver or frontpage are the only two.

Probably dreamweaver, but (i think) its a lot more expensive that frontpage....I havent actually got frontpage, but i have seen a friend using it, and the code it spurns out tends sometimes to be slightly, erm, long winded.

 

Thats what I hear also.

 

yea, dreamweaver is the way to go and you can try Microsoft's Expression

M

 

I use Dreamweaver, although a friend recommended "SiteSpinner" recently. They give a full 15-day trial to test it.

Gary

 

If you have hosting with cpanel and fantastico, that has soho site builder in, thats extremely easy to use, but strictly for beginners in my opinion.